Varanasi: The next wave of Covid-19 has contributed another jolt into the street projects that had missed the first deadline in 2020 because of the very first wave of the outbreak. The worst-hit jobs are Varanasi-Sultanpur (a part of Varanasi-Lucknow nationwide highway-56) along with Varanasi-Azamgarh Ghaghra bridge (NH-233), since both will overlook the revised deadline of June as deaths from the team of firm executing the jobs created panic among the rest of the members, such as labourers, and later returning home they’ve not returned up to now. Even should they return today, fulfilling deadline will probably be impossible because of monsoon, which becomes more active in the area from June 15. “The job NH-56 and NH-233 has been discontinued in April as two and three staffs, respectively, of this firm executing these jobs expired after spike in Covid-19 as most of other employees panicked and returned to their own houses, largely from south India,” explained NHAIs project manager Varanasi SB Singh, if TOI took inventory of their progress in jobs of Rs 3814.14 crores, such as 137.89 kilometers NH-56 of Rs 1792 crores, 118.89 kilometers NH-233 of Rs 1526 crores, 72.15 kilometers NH-29 of Rs 868.50 crores and Ring-Road phase-IIs package-I and II on Wednesday. Mentioning that initial tide of Covid-19 had compelled the agency to update the deadlines of both conclusion of NH-56, NH-233 and NH-29 which were were aimed to be performed between March and June 2020, to June 30 this year,” Singh said,”The four-lane conversion operate on NH-29 is going to be finished by June conclusion as work is currently in progress within this undertaking. However, operate on NH-56 and NH-233 is currently anticipated to be finished in October or even November just as if the team of building firm return, they might need to halt the work as monsoon gets busy between June and September in this area” In accordance with NHAI, 85 percent function of these two jobs is complete. On NH-56 mostly the job Jaunpur by-pass street and Azamgarh by-pass street on NH-233 is pristine, stated Singh including, delay in providing renewable energy project ashes by builders has also postponed the job of strategy road at underpasses of those jobs. After the work on the jobs of four-lane conversion of NH-56, NH-29 and NH-233 has been ceased at March 2020, it may be started following the conclusion of monsoon at October 2020. Function of four-lane transformation of NH-56 has been performed in 2 parts — both Lucknow-Sultanpur and Sultanpur-Varanasi. The job involving Lucknow and Sultanpur was finished in 2019 but building work between Varanasi and also Sultanpur was postponed because of delay in finishing the practice of property acquisition. Similar motives had postponed the work NH-29 and NH-233.