REGISTERED NO. D.221
The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART I—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 108] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, MAY 8, I973/VAISAKHA 18, 1895
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MINISTRY OF SHIPPING & TRANSPORT
(Roads Wing)
RESOLUTION
New Delhi, the 8th May 1973
No. NHV-11(6)/73.—On the 24th of February, 1973, Pier No. 17 of the bridge across the Chambal river near Dholpur on National Highway No, 3 yielded and settled by about 2 ft. Thereafter in the early hours of 3rd April, this pier yielded further and the four arch spans between abutment piers No. 16 and 20 collapsed. This caused considerable dislocation to the free flow of traffic and the Ministry of Shipping and Transport who are directly concerned with National Highways had to depute their engineers to inspect the damage at site and to make alternative arrangements for catering to the needs of truffle for the time being.
2, The damage caused to this bridge raises issues of a far reaching nature and it would be desirable both from the technical as well as administrative angles, to have the causes of the damage examined in depth and to find out ways and means to avoid recurrence of such situations in future. The Govern- ment of India have accordingly decided to appoint a Committee of Experts for the purpose, having as its members from various engineering organisations, so as to have their considered expert opinion on the problem. The findings of such an Expert Committee will be useful not only in tackling the problem in hand, but would also serve as a guideline for the future as well.
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588 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART I—SEC. 1]3. The Committee will consist of:—•
Chairman
(1) Shri S. N. Sinha, Director General (Road Development) and
Additional Secretary, Ministry of Shipping & Transport, New Delhi.
Members
(2) Shri U. S. Rao, Additional Member, Civil Engineering, Railway Board, N*w Delhi.
(3) Shri G. Muthachan, Engineer-in-Chief, Central Public Works Depart- ment, New Delhi.
(4) Maj. General J. S, Bawa, Director General (Border Roads), New Delhi. (5) Shri V. S. Krishna Swamy, Deputy Director General, Geological Survey of India, Lucknow.
(6) Shri D. P. Jain, Chief Engineer, P.W.D., Rajasthan, Jaipur.
Member-Secretary
(7) Shri D. T. Grover, Chief Engineer (Bridges), Ministry of Shipping & Transport (Roads Wing), New Delhi,
4. The terms of reference of the Committee will be;—.
(a) To investigate into the causes of collapse of four reinforced concrete arched spans between pier Nos. 16 and 20 (from Agra end) and subsidence of foundation of pier No. 17 of the road bridge across the Chambal river near Dholpur;
(b) To suggest:
(i) Ways and means of avoiding similar failures in future; and (li) whether the existing bridge can be retained and four collapsed spans reconstructed or a new bridge may be provided, keeping in view all aspects, including suitability, economics, etc.
5. The Committee will complete its deliberations and submit its report as early as possible.
ORDER
Ordered that copies of the Resolution be communicated to nil State Govern- ments/Local Administrations, Border Roads Development Board, Railway Board, Geological Survey of India, Central Publir Works Department, and also that it should be published in tbf Gazette of India for funeral information and in the Gazette of Raiasthan and Madhya Pradesh by the Governments of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, respectively.
V. R. MEHTA, Dy. Secy.
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