Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar recognised the flawed design of an under-construction bridge over the Ganga on Monday, a day after it collapsed. Kumar told the news agency ANI that anybody found guilty will face the appropriate punishment. He went on to say that the same bridge will collapse in 2022.
“Last year, the bridge that collapsed yesterday also collapsed.” I have directed officials to take appropriate measures. It is not being built appropriately, which is why it collapses repeatedly. “The department will investigate and take appropriate action,” the CM stated.
It was previously stated that Kumar had promptly launched an investigation into the event and sought for the identification of individuals involved. Kumar inaugurated the bridge in 2014.
On Sunday, videos of the Bhagalpur bridge, which connected Aguvanighat and Sultanganj, crumbling were extensively circulated on social media. The event resulted in no injuries.
What Tejashwi, the deputy chief minister, stated about the event
Earlier, deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav stated that the destruction was scheduled because specialists discovered’serious faults’ in its construction, according to news agency PTI.
Yadav, along with assistant chief secretary of road construction department Pratyay Amrit, stated during a news conference that the decision was made after a segment of the same bridge fell during a rainstorm in 2022. The government then tasked experts at IIT-Roorkee with analysing the structure, he explained.
Opposition lashes out
The collapse of the bridge drew condemnation from Kumar’s longtime partner in the state, the BJP. The BJP’s national spokesman, Shehzad Poonwalla, referred to it as “the bridge of corruption,” while JDU MLA from Sultanganj Lalit Narayan Mandal stated, “We were anticipating the bridge to be inaugurated by November-December later this year…There must be an investigation into the occurrence, as there is some blame.”
