Jamshedpur: The long-awaited Jugsalai railway overbridge project is getting costlier but also delayed, due to the repeated change of the approach road design by the state's road construction department.
Started in the year 2018, the Jugsalai ROB project was to be set up jointly by the railway and the RCD at a cost of Rs 16crore.
The railway was supposed to construct the ROB over the track near the Jugsalai level-crossing between Tatanagar-Adityapur section at a cost of Rs 6crore whereas the RCD was supposed to construct approach roads on the either side of the ROB at a cost of Rs 10crore. (Kumud Jenamani)
Commuters without masks are forced to take the RT-PCR Covid-19 test at Randhir Verma Chowk in Dhanbad on Friday. Gautam Dey
Dhanbad mobile team to conduct tests on commuters without masks
Dhanbad: The district health department has constituted six mobile teams comprising a magistrate, sample collectors and policemen which have launched Covid testing across Dhanbad town on Friday.
Special focus of the testing drive are pedestrians or other commuters travelling without masks in public vehicles like auto rickshaw, e-rickshaw besides the private vehicles like two wheelers and four wheelers. (Praduman Choubey)
File picture of the electrocution victim Sunil Kumar Mishra
Twin electrocution deaths in steel city
Jamshedpur: Two persons were electrocuted in separate incidents taken place under Sitaramdera and adjoining Sidhgora thana area on Friday afternoon.
While a 35-year-old man, Sunil Kumar Mishra was electrocuted while fixing a ceiling fan at his house in Kalyan Nagar under Sitaramdera thana area at 1 pm on Friday, in another incident a 20-year-old youth was electrocuted while working at building construction site in Bidhyapati Nagar in Sidhgora around 3 pm.
According to police, Sunil who worked as a para legal volunteer in Jamshedpur was fixing a ceiling fan at his house having climbed on an iron ladder. (Kumud Jenamani)