RCC HUME PIPE CULVERTS 900 MM DIA ARE ECONOMICAL THAN OTHER TYPES HOWEVER RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TAKING NO COGNISANCE OF WORK DONE FOR AMBULANCE ROADS AND DELAYING THE MGNREGA APPROVAL FOR BALHSEENA PANCHAYAT AND LINK ROAD TO VILLAGE (KATHUIN) EVEN ORDER BY THE BDO JHANDUTTA

For small drainage crossings pipe culverts are often generally found practice to be the most economical and easily constructed and can be easily enlarged subsequently to take more discharge by the addition of one or more pipes and in case of subsidiary culvert such type of work are most commonly used. Reinforced concrete pipes are most commonly used for this purpose of the cross drainage work. Accordingly  one number additional pipe has been provided in the link road to Gandhir from Balhseena after its approval from the District administration Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme of the area and circle and work was kept pending since FY 2007 so the matter was brought to the notice of the District Administration Bilaspur from where two number culverts have been approved for this cross drainage of the Ambulance roads and the Gram Panchayat Gandhir has completed their work of the addition made of 900 mm diameter culvert but the work of the Village Kathuin under Gram panchayat Balhseena still kept pending for want of funding for the said work which has been completed by the Gandhir Panchayat under Jhandutta Block of the Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh. The matter has been brought to the notice of the respective Chief Secretary of state Government from where two number letters have been issued to the Secretary Rural department on 18-11-24 and 9-11-2025 respectively but no action has been taken by the Department of the RD even number of requests and reminders placed on the record of the Deputy Secretary of the RD department being responsible for the duty as a nodal officer of the Panchayati Raj Department but no action has been taken by the department against the non compliance of the construction agency of Gram panchayat Balhseena , even clear orders of the Programme officer on the captioned subject at number of occasion. So keeping in view the above position of the pending work of the Ambulance road because of economical design for the 900 mm dia hume pipe culvert which has been approved for rupee five lacs by the department of rural development and completed by the GP Gandhir panchayat in rupee three lacs there is no reason of denying the facts placed on the record of the department in this behalf and ordered by the BDO Jhandutta block for needful under the MANRESA and based on the arrangement of head walls and wing walls such that the embankment is protected and the flow of water facilitated. Wing walls may be parallel with or at right angles to the axis of the culvert or may be placed at an angle with the head wall, usually thirty degree or forty five degree. For hydraulic reasons especially at the up-stream ends flared wings are best choice and the culvert is less likely to become chocked then when either of the other types is used.