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The constructing work for the bridge started in 2014 and it has failed to meet its deadline eight times.
A fraction of an below-constructing, four-lane bridge within the Indian verbalize of Bihar’s Bhagalpur district on the Sultanganj-Aguwani Ganga River route collapsed and fell for the third time, on Saturday (Aug 17). The incident has since raised issues over the structural balance of the bridge.
The portion spanning from Sultanganj to Agwani, between pillars 9 and 10 of the bridge collapsed and submerged into the Ganga River. The Khagaria’s District Magistrate Amit Kumar Pandey confirmed no casualties within the incident.
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The SP Singla constructing firm has been given the contract to make the Aguwani-Sultanganj bridge, which has sunk for the third time. A entire of Rs. 1717 crore has been spent on the constructing of the bridge, which has been within the works for 9 years.
“I non-public to insist one thing, the entire structure of the below-constructing bridge, which is inferior, is presupposed to be dismantled by the contractor. The constructing work has already stopped there. The contractor is dismantling the structure at the route of the Patna Excessive Court docket,” Pandey stated.
The project aimed to connect the Bhagalpur and Khagaria districts. Nonetheless, the bridge collapsed for the third time raising issues of safety. The incident has furthermore reportedly introduced on requires a upright prognosis of the constructing process.
The give draw took put amid the continued floods within the river Ganga which had led to a stay within the constructing work.
The constructing work for the bridge started in 2014 and it has failed to meet its deadline eight times. The recurrent screw ups of the bridge non-public furthermore raised requires an investigation to search out out the muse trigger of the collapses.
Following the give draw, Union Minister of Micro, Tiny and Medium Enterprises, Jitan Ram Manjhi stated, “An investigation must serene be performed to establish where the lapses happened that non-public led to now not simply one, but several bridge collapses. Those accountable must serene be held accountable. Why are so many bridges collapsing this twelve months? Might perchance perchance there be a political conspiracy at the abet of it?”
This bridge was once envisioned as a necessary infrastructural project by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar but has again and again collapsed and been below constructing for a in fact prolonged time.
The parts of the bridge collapsed twice in 2022. The principle incident that twelve months happened in November adopted by the 2nd give draw in December.
(With inputs from agencies)
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