Ludhiana, Aug. 31 -- Former employees of a consulting firm, associated with the Rs.756-crore elevated highway project on national highway-44, have written to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), raising concerns over the highway's structural safety.

In the complaint submitted this week to the NHAI's regional officer in Chandigarh on behalf of several ex-employees who were deployed at the site during the construction phase, Sanjay Kumar, former senior quantity surveyor at Feedback Infra Consultants Pvt Ltd, has alleged that several key safety provisions mentioned in the contract agreement have been overlooked or left incomplete. "As per the agreement, a crash barrier was to be installed along the entire 13-km central median st...