AGARTALA, August 16 (TIWN) : After the soil test, the construction of the fly-over at Battala has moved a step forward and has begun the load test at Battala.

As the soil test for Battala is completed the authority has decided to go ahead with load test at Battala.

Once the load test will be done, the construction will be extended further.  

With the ongoing days, the construction of the fly-over work is underway in full swing from Battala to Drop gate area with the aim to complete the entire work by 30 months as fixed by the Tripura government.

The soil testing has currently extended towards fire service chowmuhani from Battala junction.

The soil testing work is currently in progress at the mentioned route and is likely to be wrapped up soon. The soil testing is already completed at Bordowali area and is going in full fledged manner at Milan Sangha area. At present the entrusted Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC) has undertaken the soil testing work in at least 10 spots from Battala to Drop Gate amongst which 4 to 5 has been completed.

However, it is to be mentioned here that once the construction of the fly-over is completed the traffic chaos of Battala will come to an end.

According to the section of city dwellers the fly over would be blessing for the people living in Agartala city, as the pupils can never be on time in their office or school due to the tremendous traffic issue. Mainly the Battala station, which have junction of more than four roads passing and connecting to a single road have been causing the maximum traffic jam.

The main motive of creating the Fly-Over Bridge is to seek solution to hectic traffic jam at Battala. As day by day the population and the number of vehicles are increasing, the problems arise in traffic system too.