By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: As Gujarat reels from probably the most deadliest bridge cave in incidents in India’s fresh historical past, claiming a minimum of 141 lives, PTI recollects different such tragic episodes that experience stunned the country up to now a number of years.
In line with a 2020 learn about ‘Research of bridge screw ups in India from 1977 to 2017’, printed in world magazine ‘Construction and Infrastructure Engineering’, as many as “2,130 bridges” — with the exception of culverts and pedestrian bridges — have failed to supply meant carrier or collapsed all over more than a few levels of development within the final 4 a long time.
The herbal failures in India, in keeping with the quoted learn about, have made essentially the most devastating impact at the failure of the bridge infrastructure of an order of “80.3 in step with cent” — in line with a pattern dimension of two,010 bridges. Beside herbal failures, the deterioration of subject matter has been the cause of “10.1 in step with cent” of the failure of bridges, whilst overloading has contributed to “3.28 in step with cent” of bridge screw ups.
“There are different noticeable reasons of bridge screw ups corresponding to blast via dissidents and injuries with cars or ships,” it added.
Darjeeling bridge cave in (2011): Thirty-two other people had been killed and over 60 injured when an previous picket footbridge over a spring gave away, underneath the power of crowd, all over a Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) assembly at Bijanbari in Darjeeling district on October 22, 2011.The bridge, which have been weakened via the September 18 earthquake, collapsed when a lot of other people amassed on it for the assembly.
Arunachal Pradesh footbridge cave in (2011): Only a week after the ill-fated Darjeeling incident, a footbridge over Kameng river in Arunachal Pradesh collapsed on October 29, 2011. It collapsed when 63 other people had been over the bridge to catch an insect in the neighborhood referred to as ‘tari’. The bridge was once built in 1987 and commissioned in 1992. No less than 30 other people, most commonly youngsters, had been killed within the incident.
Vivekananda flyover cave in in Kolkata (2016): As many as 26 other people had been killed and over 60 had been injured after an underneath development 2.2 km-long Vivekananda flyover collapsed in a congested marketplace house in North Kolkata. The Hyderabad-based corporate IVRCL, which was once setting up the flyover, described the cave in as an “act of God”, in quest of to painting it as a herbal calamity.
Majerhat flyover cave in in Kolkata (2018): In a an identical incident on September 4, 2018, 3 other people had been killed and 24 had been injured after a portion of South Kolkata’s over 50-year-old Majerhat bridge caved in following heavy rainfall within the town.
Mumbai footover bridge cave in (2019): Six other people had been killed and over 30 other people had been injured when a footover bridge close to Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) railway station collapsed on March 14, 2019. The a minimum of three-decade previous bridge, connecting the bustling CSMT with the Azad Maidan police station, was once audited simply six months earlier than the incident. It’s maintained via the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC).
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NEW DELHI: As Gujarat reels from probably the most deadliest bridge cave in incidents in India’s fresh historical past, claiming a minimum of 141 lives, PTI recollects different such tragic episodes that experience stunned the country up to now a number of years.
In line with a 2020 learn about ‘Research of bridge screw ups in India from 1977 to 2017’, printed in world magazine ‘Construction and Infrastructure Engineering’, as many as “2,130 bridges” — with the exception of culverts and pedestrian bridges — have failed to supply meant carrier or collapsed all over more than a few levels of development within the final 4 a long time.
The herbal failures in India, in keeping with the quoted learn about, have made essentially the most devastating impact at the failure of the bridge infrastructure of an order of “80.3 in step with cent” — in line with a pattern dimension of two,010 bridges. Beside herbal failures, the deterioration of subject matter has been the cause of “10.1 in step with cent” of the failure of bridges, whilst overloading has contributed to “3.28 in step with cent” of bridge screw ups.
“There are different noticeable reasons of bridge screw ups corresponding to blast via dissidents and injuries with cars or ships,” it added.
Darjeeling bridge cave in (2011): Thirty-two other people had been killed and over 60 injured when an previous picket footbridge over a spring gave away, underneath the power of crowd, all over a Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) assembly at Bijanbari in Darjeeling district on October 22, 2011.The bridge, which have been weakened via the September 18 earthquake, collapsed when a lot of other people amassed on it for the assembly.
Arunachal Pradesh footbridge cave in (2011): Only a week after the ill-fated Darjeeling incident, a footbridge over Kameng river in Arunachal Pradesh collapsed on October 29, 2011. It collapsed when 63 other people had been over the bridge to catch an insect in the neighborhood referred to as ‘tari’. The bridge was once built in 1987 and commissioned in 1992. No less than 30 other people, most commonly youngsters, had been killed within the incident.
Vivekananda flyover cave in in Kolkata (2016): As many as 26 other people had been killed and over 60 had been injured after an underneath development 2.2 km-long Vivekananda flyover collapsed in a congested marketplace house in North Kolkata. The Hyderabad-based corporate IVRCL, which was once setting up the flyover, described the cave in as an “act of God”, in quest of to painting it as a herbal calamity.
Majerhat flyover cave in in Kolkata (2018): In a an identical incident on September 4, 2018, 3 other people had been killed and 24 had been injured after a portion of South Kolkata’s over 50-year-old Majerhat bridge caved in following heavy rainfall within the town.
Mumbai footover bridge cave in (2019): Six other people had been killed and over 30 other people had been injured when a footover bridge close to Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) railway station collapsed on March 14, 2019. The a minimum of three-decade previous bridge, connecting the bustling CSMT with the Azad Maidan police station, was once audited simply six months earlier than the incident. It’s maintained via the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC).
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