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BACKGROUND

Article 13, clause no. 13.2 of the Concession Agreement states that:

13.2 Inspection

“During the Construction Period the Independent Engineer shall inspect the Project

Highway at least once a month and make a report of such inspection (the “Inspection

Report”) stating in reasonable detail the defects or deficiencies, if any, with particular

reference to the Scope of the Project and Specifications and Standards. It shall send a

copy of the Inspection Report to the Authority and the Concessionaire within 7 (Seven)

days of such inspection and upon receipt thereof, the Concessionaire shall rectify and

remedy the defects or deficiencies, if any, stated in the Inspection Report. Such

inspection or submission of Inspection Report by the Independent Engineer shall not

relieve or absolve the Concessionaire of its obligation and liabilities hereunder in any

manner whatsoever”.

To comply with the requirement of the above clause of Concession Agreement, a Joint Site

Inspection program of the Project Highway was planned for 24-01-2015 by a joint team

comprising NHAI, IE, Concessionaire and EPC Contractor and the same was informed to the

Concessionaire vide this office letter ref. no. LASA/BK/IE/73426/2015-840, dated 22/01/2015.

During site Inspection, full team of IE, representative of NHAI Mr. Shailendra Sambhu (D.M)

and Mr. Kunal Roy (Site Engineer), Concessionaire’s team comprising Mr. Amarnath Dash

(GM cum Authorized signatory of BKEL), Mr. Sarwan Kumar (Authorised signatory of BKEL)

EPC Contractor Mr. Naidu (PM) and Mr. E. Daragaiah (DPM, structure), Mr Adinarayan

(Material Engineer), Mr. J. K. Panda and other site engineers were available. This Joint Site

Inspection Report is based on the findings during site inspection by the whole team of IE (TL,

RE, B/SE, SQME, QS, AHE-2, ABE-2, AQME-2 and Survey Engineer).

Project Brief

The NH-34 Barasat to Krishnagar Section in the state of West Bengal is located in the

northern part of Metropolitan city Kolkata. It is part of the proposed Barasat to Raiganj section.

The NH-34 is an integral component of the National and Regional road network. The project

highway described in this report is under construction and runs from Km 31.000 to 115.000

between Barasat to Krishnagar on NH 34 in the state of West Bengal.

The completed NH-34 will connect the traffic from Kolkata to Siliguri as well as facilitating the

movements between the State highways (SH), Major district roads (MDR) and other district

roads (ODR). The increase in car ownership, changes in land use and travel patterns have

resulted in congestion on many parts of the State road network including NH-34. The NH-34

currently not only functions as a main corridor to Nepal and Bangladesh but as an urban

collector/distributor between communities, employment and shopping centres.

The alignment traverses through two Districts North 24 Paraganas and Nadia. The terrain

along the project road is generally plain. The predominant land use along the project road is

agricultural with ribbon development near human settlements. At certain locations,

encroachments within the ROW have been observed in the form of Shops, Hotels, Dhabas

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and various other commercial establishments. The road passes through towns of Kamdebpur

(2247’13”, 8830’13”), Amdanga (2234’06”, 8830’27”), Gadamara (2254’00”, 8832’21”),

Barajaguli, Chakdah (2304’52”, 8832’35”), Ranaghat, Phulia, Shantipur (2315’59”,

8826’50”), Govindapur and Krishnagar (2322’40”, 8829’10”) etc.

Map Showing Road Alignment of NH-34

I. SCOPE OF WORK

The scope of the Access Controlled Highway Project as detailed in the concession Agreement

shall be broadly classified as follows:

Construction of Four Laning of NH-34 from km 31.000 to km 115.000 (Existing

chainage) or 115.341 (Designed chainage) in the state of West Bengal.

Construction of 2 nos of Major bridges, 5 nos of Minor Bridges, 134 nos of slab culverts

and 17 nos of Pipe culverts on main carriage way under New/widening/ Reconstruction

Scheme as per Schedule B of Concession Agreement.

Construction of 4 nos of ROBs, 1 no of RUB, 2 nos of Vehicular Underpass, 12 major

junctions, 14 nos of minor junctions, 1 no of toll plaza and others Schemed as per

Schedule B and Schedule C of Concession Agreement

During the entire construction period, the Project Highway is to be maintained by the

Concessionaire at his own cost from the appointed date.

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Traffic Management and Safety of workers and the road users shall be maintained at all

times in accordance with the relevant IRC and relevant Codes as stipulated in the

Concession Agreement without any deviations.

The scope of the work for the Project Highway also includes but not limited to the following:

Road side furniture

Pedestrian Facilities

Highway Lighting Systems

Junctions(Major & Minor)

Tree plantation and landscaping

Truck lay byes & Bus lay byes with bus shelters.

II. SITE INSPECTION

Joint Site inspection was conducted on 24th January, 2015 by a team comprising

representative of NHAI/PIU-Krishnagar, IE, Concessionaire and EPC Contractor. During site

Inspection, representative of NHAI Mr. Shailendra Sambhu (D.M) and Mr. Kunal Roy (Site

Engineer), full team of IE, Concessionaire’s team comprising Mr. Amarnath Dash (GM cum

Authorized signatory of BKEL), Mr. Sarwan Kumar (Authorised signatory of BKEL) EPC

Contractor Mr. Naidu (PM) and Mr. E. Daragaiah (DPM, structure), Mr Adinarayan (Material

Engineer), Mr. J. K. Panda and other site engineers were available. This Joint Site Inspection

Report is based on the findings during site inspection.

The visit started at 10:30 AM from Project end point (at Km 115+000) and concluded at Km

51+000 on the same day at 5:30 PM.

III. FINDINGS OF JOINT SITE INSPECTION

As there is some improvement in construction works at site, such as Earthwork, Sub-grade

and GSB work. Similarly, there is some sign of improvement of progress on structures too.

The compliance of comments given by the Independent Engineer in the Reports of previous

Joint Site Inspections was reviewed during this inspection but not complied in full. The works

which are under progress were also inspected. The following are the findings of compliances

of previous instructions:

1. Project Information Board:

A. It is found that the Concessionaire has installed the information board at the end point

of the Project Highway. Information board is still missing and no correction is made in the

information board of starting point. The Concessionaire was instructed in the previous Joint

Inspection Reports to re-install missed information board at the end of Project Highway.

Findings: Till date, the Concessionaire has not complied the instructions given by IE

in this regard. The Concessionaire is again reminded to install the missed Information

Board and correction in the information board as described in previous reports.

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Km 115+000 – Project information board not fixed

B. Chainage Pillar - The Concessionaire was instructed to fix the reference chainage pillars

at regular intervals as per MORT&H specification and other relevant codes.

Findings: Till date, no action has been taken by the Concessionaire in this regard.

2. Cutting of Jalangi River Bond

There is complaint from Irrigation department that the Concessionaire has cut the Jalangi

River earthen bond for the construction of road and Irrigation department also requested to

stop to cut the bond and also requested to mend the cut portion. The Concessionaire agreed

that they had cut some portion of the said bond during making diversion for piling work for

Jalangi bridge and some more length of the bond was cut for maintaining the slope of

embankment in the month of September 2014. Concessionaire also informed that they have

already stopped further cutting of bond after September, 2014. Concessionaire’s

representative assured that the cut bond will be mended and made the same to its original

position.

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Cutting of Jalangi River bond

Jalangi river bond ctted during test pile construction

3. Km 113+980 (RHS) – Box culver:

PCC work has been completed, but further work has been stopped due to objection of local

people. Concessionaire requested either to abandond the culvert if the culvert is not

necessary or provide administrative help for construction of the same if necessary.

Team Leader of IE expressed that the culvert was provisioned at this location for balancing

the water flow during high flood and construction of the same is required. Team Leader

reiterated that IRC:SP:13, Article 2,1 (iii) also recommend to construct a culvert at this

location as the culvert at this site is situated between two firm bonds. the

The Concessionaire was instructed to lodge FIR against the person who are objecting the

construction of the culvert for further action in this regard.

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PCC of Box culvert at Km 113+980 (RHS)

4. RUB (Km 112+215):

The construction of RUB is going as planned.

Slab concreting of Unit ‘D’ (left tunnel) was in progress. Concessionaire reported that there

may be problem for pushing of boxes if underground cables of railways are not trmoved on

time. Team Leader of IE suggested the Concessionaire to expedite the process for shifting of

underground cable (which is in progress).

Concreting of slab of unit ‘D’ in progress

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Inspection during concreting of unit ‘D’ slab

5. Culvert @ Km 106+400 (RHS)

Concessionaire expressed that local people objecting the construction of box culvert at Km

106+400 (RHS). Joint Inspection Team inquired the local people about their objection. Their

point is that there no any stream for outlet of water from the culvert as there are residential

buildings all along this stretch. Concessionaire was instructed to request the local people to

construct the culvert at designed location or shift few meters on either side to accommodate

the demand of local people. Concessionaire was also suggested to loudge FIR if against the

persons who object to construct the culvert there,

Hindrance created by local people for construction of culvert @ Km 106+400

6. Earthwork in Embankment (Km 100+870 – Km 100+920)

FDD of first layer of embankment was checked.

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Required density not achieved as work was in progress.The OMC is found satisfactory

(Result of FDD test is enclosed in Annexture-2).

FDD checking @ Km 100+900 Embankment 1st layer

7. Concessionaire’s site laboratory:

7 days compressive strength of Concrete cubes for Mix Design M35 (Pile, Mix Design)

using Ambuja OPC 43 grade cement; 7 days compressive strength of Concrete cubes

(M25 Mix design) used for RCC with Ramco brand OPC 43 grade cement and site cubes

of M25 concrete with Ambuja opc 43 grade cement (28 days) are tested.

The required compressive strenth of all concrete cubes are found satisfactory. (Results

encosed in the Annexture -I )

Slump of concrete used for concreting slab of RUB at Km 112+215, Unit D (Lect tunnel)

was also checked and found to be satisfactory.

Slump checking of concreting at plant site

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Compressive strength checking of concrete cubes

8. Box Culvert at Km 82+146:

Rienforcement for Return wall has been checked and found stisfactory.

Reinforcement of Return wall checking @ Km 82+146

9. Major Bridge at Km 77+800:

Piling work was in progress. Concessionaire is instructed for proper safety arrangement.

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Piling work @ Km 77+800

10. Box Culvert @ Km 64+013 (LHS)

PCC of foundation of box culvert at this location was completed. Condition of existing

culvert at this location is in very bad which require reconstruction.

Condition of existing box culvert at @ Km 64+013 (LHS)

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PCC of Box Culvert @ Km 64+013 (LHS)

11. Embankment work from Km 64+020 – Km 64+19 (LHS):

OGL bed was ready, checked for compaction and result found satisfactory. Allowed

for further work. (Result enclosed in Annexure-3 )

Field density of OGL layer checking @ Km 63 + 475 (LHS)

12. Km 59+738 (Minor Bridge):

Excavation work for foundation (LHS) was in progress. The Consessionaire was

instructed to take appropriate precaution during cutting of deep foundation, so that

existing road would not be damaged and traffic would not be obstructed.

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Earthwork in foundation @ Km 59+738

13. Sub-grade Works

Sub-grade works in progress/completed was found in the following chainage during joint

site inspection:

I) Km 96+100 – Km 98+160 (LHS) Completed

II) Km 102+200 – Km 102+600 (LHS) - 2nd layer in progress

III) Km 102 + 640 – Km 103+400 (LHS) Completed

IV) Km 109 +860 –Km 110 + 140 (LHS) Completed

V) Km 114+000 – Km 115+000 (LHS) Completed

VI) Km 106 + 700 – Km 106+760 (RHS) – 2nd layer in progress

VII) Km 106+970 – Km 107+150 (RHS)– 2nd layer in progress

14. GSB Works

Concessionaire has started laying of GSB in the following chainages:

I) Km 114+000– Km 114 + 700 (RHS) – Completed

II) Km 109 +980 - Km 110 + 120(LHS) – Completed

III) Km 102 + 700 – Km 103+400 (LHS) – Completed

IV) Km 97 + 920 – Km 98+160 (LHS) – Completed

15. Major Bridge at Km 113+528:

Construction work of Major Bridge is completely stopped since 2 months as pile bore

are collapsed during boring.

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16. Minor Bridge at Km 111+201

The construction activity of this bridge is paralysed since 7.9 2014 as there is hindrance

to remove 1100 KV over the Bridge.

17. From Km 31+000 to Km 51+060

Slush removal and C & G work from Km 43+000 to 44+200 (RHS) are in progress. There

are no other substantial works from Km 31+000 to Km 51+060.

Slush Removal in progress at Km 43+600 (RHS)

18. Repair of Project Highway:

As the Concessionaire stopped Repair and Maintenance Work from 06-03-2014 and the

road severely damaged, NHAI has appointed M/S Roads (India) International as Repair

and Maintenance Contractor at the risk and Cost of the Concessionaire. Roads (India)

International has started to repair (potholes filling) work from 27-07-2014 and Repair and

Maintenance work at present is going in full swing. Till Date Roads (India) International has

completed following works:

• Potholes Repair:

84.00 Km (100%) (except severely damaged stretch from Km 58+450 to Km 59+850,

from Km 96+500 to Km 97+000 and Km 111+650 to Km 111+800)

• Bituminous Macadam (BM):

72.10 Km/84.00 Km (85.83%) Completed

• Semi Dense Bituminous Concrete (SDBC):

65.5 Km/84.00 Km (78.00%) Completed

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The Photographs below explain the progress of road repair work..

SDBC work in progress at Km 42+200

IV. RECOMMENDATION:

The concessionaire has not yet fully addressed/responded/complied the instructions /

comments / suggestions given by the Independent Engineer in their previous Joint Inspection

Reports. It is again recommended to address the issues raised by Independent Engineer in

this Joint Site Inspection Report along with previous reports and correct/rectify the deficiencies

at the earliest to achieve the quality works.

CONTENTS

Background ........................................................................................................................................... 1

I. Scope of Work ............................................................................................................................... 2

II. Site Inspection ............................................................................................................................... 3

III. Findings of joint site INSPECTION ................................................................................................. 3

1. Project Information Board: ............................................................................................................. 3

2. Cutting of Jalangi River Bond ......................................................................................................... 4

3. Km 113+980 (RHS) – Box culver: .................................................................................................. 5

4. RUB (Km 112+215): ...................................................................................................................... 6

5. Culvert @ Km 106+400 (RHS) ....................................................................................................... 7

6. Earthwork in Embankment (Km 100+870 – Km 100+920) ............................................................. 7

7. Concessionaire’s site laboratory: ................................................................................................... 8

8. Box Culvert at Km 82+146: ............................................................................................................ 9

9. Major Bridge at Km 77+800: .......................................................................................................... 9

10. Box Culvert @ Km 64+013 (LHS) ................................................................................................ 10

11. Embankment work from Km 64+020 – Km 64+19 (LHS): ............................................................. 11

12. Km 59+738 (Minor Bridge): .......................................................................................................... 11

13. Sub-grade Works ......................................................................................................................... 12

14. GSB Works .................................................................................................................................. 12

15. Major Bridge at Km 113+528: ...................................................................................................... 12

16. Minor Bridge at Km 111+201 ....................................................................................................... 13

17. From Km 31+000 to Km 51+060 .................................................................................................. 13

18. Repair of Project Highway:........................................................................................................... 13

IV. Recommendation: ........................................................................................................................ 14

National Highways Authority of India

(Ministry of Road Transport & Highways)

Government of India

Four Laning of Barasat-Krishnagar Section of NH-34 from Km 31.000 to Km 115.000 in the State of West Bengal under

NHDP Phase-III on DBFOT (Annuity) Basis

MONTHLY JOINT SITE INSPECTION REPORT

JANUARY, 2015

LEA Associates South Asia Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi