Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari emphasised on the demand to lower the price of construction of bridges, without endangering on quality.
Union Priest Nitin Gadkari on Monday stated he was surprised at the feedback of an IAS police officer that associated the collapse of a portion of an under-construction road bridge in Sultanganj to ‘strong winds’.
A section of an under-construction road bridge over the Ganga at Sultanganj in Bihar collapsed during an electrical storm on April 29. There were no reports of any kind of casualty in the event.
“A bridge fell in Bihar on April 29. I asked my assistant regarding the reasons. He (secretary) said it got on account of strong winds (hawa aur dhundh),” Mr Gadkari claimed at an occasion below.
The roadway transportation as well as freeways preacher claimed he asked yourself just how can an IAS officer believe such an explanation.
“Mere to baat samajh me nahi aa rahi hai ki hawa dhundh se kaise bridge girega? Kuch naa kuch galati hogi (I can not recognize how can a bridge collapse due to solid winds. There have to be some mistake (which resulted in collapse of the bridge),” Mr Gadkari, that is understood for his frank sights, included.
The minister likewise stressed on the demand to reduce the price of building and construction of bridges, without jeopardizing on quality.
Sultanganj MLA Lalit Narayan Mandal had earlier said that Chief Preacher Nitish Kumar has purchased an investigation into the bridge collapse.
“The opportunity of utilizing sub-standard products in the construction of the bridge can not be eliminated … It is a matter of investigation that the under construction bridge being developed at a price of 1,710 crore could not hold up against solid gusty winds,” he had stated.
The construction of the bridge in between Sultanganj and Aguani Ghat in Bihar had actually started in 2014. It resulted from be completed in 2019 however work with it is still on.
The 3,116-metre-long bridge on completion was slated to have the nation’s lengthiest extradosed spans and a high-level observatory which would certainly offer the users an one-of-a-kind view of the river.
An extradosed bridge is a hybrid framework between the timeless cable-stayed as well as cantilever-girder kinds.
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Last Updated: 10 May 2022
