Bihar Bridge Collapse: Where’s The Guard?

Soon after the four-lane bridge came crashing down like a house of cards yesterday evening, Bihar government told the media that the structure that “serious defects” and portions had been deliberately destroyed in a planned fashion. “It may be recalled that a portion of this bridge had collapsed on April 30 last year. We had, thereafter, approached IIT-Roorkee, which is esteemed for its expertise in construction matters, to conduct a study. It is yet to come up with a final report but experts who had studied the structure had informed us that there were serious defects,” Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav said at the press conference. A government official, during the press conference, said that they decided not to take any chance and went ahead with pulling down parts of the bridge.