Stuck for 9 months, hi-tech turbine set to move
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10/03/2008
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Indian Express (New Delhi)
India's most hi-tech power turbine is finally expected to be liberated from a narrow hill road between Mumbai and Nashik on Tuesday, almost nine months after it got embarrassingly stuck on its way to Chhattisgarh as the National Highway here was not strong or wide enough to take the load. The gigantic task is due to begin at 4 am on Tuesday and is expected to test the nerves of officials and workers with the highway closed to heavy vehicles for at least 12 hours. Smaller automobiles will be diverted through another route, said Shrikant Jawale, Nashik's traffic Dy SP. "Adequate arrangements have been made wherever we thought the trailer could get stuck and the sides and corners of the ghat have been cut well. We don't expect any problems, certainly not after it completes the climb,' said Jawale. At least 100 people are expected to be involved in the job to move the 200-wheel trailer which carried about 70 per cent of the turbine components, including the heaviest part