-Galla S Kiran Kumar,Bureau Chief Telagana (Andhra Pradesh)
There ash (playash) is free. Anyone can take it. But now it is not so easy. 25 ton tipper used to sell for Rs.3 thousand. Brick kilns used to buy and make bricks. Currently, the same tipper for the same brick kilns is Rs. 12 thousand.
Vijayawada Bypass is supplied by public representatives
today, Amaravati
VTPS ash used in bypass
There ash (playash) is free . Anyone can take it. But now it is not so easy. 25 ton tipper used to sell for Rs.3 thousand. Brick kilns used to buy and make bricks. Currently, the same tipper for the same brick kilns is Rs. 12 thousand. Not available at all. The price has doubled in just one year. Reason is dominant.
From there, the area where the national highway works will take place will be around 12 kilometers. If the total is added.. less than 20 kilometers. Flyash in ash pond is free. There are regulations to use flyash in the construction of national highway. But they are buying a 25-ton tipper for Rs.12 thousand. A few thousand tippers. Unsolicited payment of Rs. It is the people’s representatives from the ruling party who are doing the work.. to do the work there.. the condition is to buy fly ash through them. Otherwise indirect warnings that we will see how things go. Those organizations are not small either.. But they are spending Rs.crores for free flash.
Vijayawada has been granted a bypass as part of the expansion of the sixteenth national highway. Out of these two packages, road widening from Kalabarru to Chinna Authapalli has been completed. The work of the third package is going on in full swing. Gravel was given lead for road widening. The hills were dug up and gravel moved in the vicinity of Gannavaram. Last year it was suggested that flyash can be used in the construction of national highways. It has been directed that this flyash can be used for filling in place of gravel, in the construction of overbridges at walls and in the construction of approach roads. This decision was taken because ash is well known and causes pollution problems at thermal power stations. As VTPS remains the same, it is possible to use flash here. It has been approached by private companies. Their bargains were broken. They made a bargain to give the tipper so much that they would supply it themselves. Not according to the bargain tippers, their companies construct the road.. As thousands of tons of flyash are required for the road, they entered into a contract accordingly. According to this, one tipper costs up to Rs. 12 thousand.
Dominance..!
For the past few years, the struggle for supremacy over the VTPS ash pond has been going on. A public representative and another public representative from the neighboring district are selling these ashes as their assets. Recently in two districts (joint) the sand contracts of public representative lorries and the public representative who took over as minister are competing and selling free ash to the construction companies. In the last six months alone, they have sold Rs. Due to the lack of space for small tractors at the ash pond, they are making holes in the pipelines and stealing a lot of ash. Awe is being expressed at the people who are only offering free ash.. A representative of the contracting company told ‘Inadu’.. They confirmed that they have contracted with the transporters only for a few hundred tonnes of flyash
