Rain delays UEN project, only 10% work completed till date
- | Tuesday | 14th August, 2018
The city beach area received heavy rainfall of 73mm recently and nearly 25mm rainfall on Monday.“On Tuesday, the beach area received 7mm of rainfall. As on date, work on only 19 kilometre stretch has been completed.Prasad revealed that the work was divided into three parts for now and are worth Rs 710 crore. As per their internal target, nearly 30% of the work should be completed by August 15, 2018.“But, owing to unfavourable weather conditions like low pressures, heavy rains etc have stalled work for nearly a week. This delayed the work,” the supervisor said.Officials from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) told TOI that the southwest monsoon is presently active. The total cost of all four parts put together is Rs 830 crores, he said.As per the World Bank, nearly 40% of the work should be completed by October, 2018.
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