Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has commissioned an assessment of structural stability of the flyover at Punjagutta, after serious damage to the pillars was brought to light through social media platforms on Tuesday.
The flyover was built over 15 years ago, which will be remembered when the scaffolding collapsed and killed a techie, and injured several others in September 2007. The flyover was also the site of a major and a few minor fire accidents a couple of years ago, due to which black soot enveloped a few pillars and the bearings underneath.
The pictures posted on the Twitter account of one ‘Team Road Squad’, showed greater damage, with big chunks of concrete chipped off from the pillar. Several replies to the tweet sought the flyover shut down for repairs to avert major disasters.
