Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has been maintaining top secrecy on a report submitted by an independent committee on the Biodiversity flyover, on which accidents claimed three lives in a span of three weeks.
Surprisingly, the report was not given to the superintendent engineer who executed work on the two level flyover at the Biodiversity junction.
An official said that the higher authorities were ‘hiding’ the 24-page document. Sources claimed that the corporation was asked to keep it confidential by the government. If anyone persisted in asking for the report, the official in-charge was informally advised to go on leave to avoid handing over the report.
On November 23, Satyavani, 40, died when a tree fell on her after a car flew off the flyover, bounced off the ground and crashed into it, before falling again and injuring other people. On November 10, a software employee from Cognizant, who was in an inebriated condition, fatally ran over two persons and injured four persons. He rammed his car into two vehicles before knocking the two victims who were taking selfies on the flyover. Citing this, the civic body put a selfie ban on the flyover.
According to highly placed sources, the corporation has received instructions from their higher authorities not put the report in public domain since it would lead to further complications pertaining to the safety of commuters on the flyover.
The independent committee of experts have clearly stressed that the width near the curve, where Krishna Milan Rao, the driver of the car that flew off the flyover, should be increased. Sources said that if the report submitted by the committee is put in the public domain, it would lead to legal complications pertaining to the safety of commuters and the executing of the project. The committee to minimise accidents have suggested an increase in the height of the crash barriers.
When queried about the report, a senior GHMC official, requesting anonymity, said that he was on leave while the report was received by the corporation. He said higher authorities have asked the officials not to utter a word on the expert committee report until January 2020.
