Quepem: “Padd’dde Buddlem”, a joint Refrain among the people in this area was heard at the end of the night, because the Kushavati River violated his banks in the usual place for the first time this rainy season.
Because heavy rainfall, the surface of the water on the Kushawati River began to swell on Friday, but the end of the night at 8:30 a.m., the Paroda bridge connected the village of Avedem-Cotombi to the submerged Margao-Quepem Road.
Paroda area from the bridge to Junction Parvat Road, about one km to the west, also flood.
The Paroda bridge built a post liberation during the first Ministry of Bandodkar.
The height is very low, almost not a few meters from the surface of the water.
Some villagers even risk their lies to take coconut flowing on the bridge.
All lightweight vehicles plying from Margao to Quepem, Curchorem and Sanguem were diverted through Chandor late at night.
Joe Fernandes Local Avedem told TOI that the bridge needs to be validated through quality engineers.
“It hasn’t been checked at all, we have school children and people walk on it, including the movement of vehicles loaded weight,” he said.
Former Minister of Manohar Parragar examized the bridge in 2012 and promised local residents that the new bridge would be built in the Xmonths in a different location throughout Kushavati about 100 m from the bridge, but he failed to fulfill his promise, “Fernandes said.
Avedem Panchayat has Take a resolution under disaster management to build a new bridge.