Via PTI
NEW DELHI: The bridge sagging incident in Mizoram which has claimed 17 lives was once because of the cave in of a gantry that was once being introduced at the under-construction bridge over Kurung river, the Railways mentioned Wednesday.
The Railways has constituted a high-level committee to probe the incident involving the under-construction bridge, one of the most 130 bridges within the Bhairavi-Sairang New Railway Line mission.
A Railways spokesperson mentioned the gantry which collapsed was once designed by way of STUP Marketing consultant and evidence checked by way of IIT Guwahati.
“Prime-level enquiry committee has been constituted to research the subject,” the spokesperson mentioned.
Gantries are heavy metal constructions used to boost and enhance bridge segments or girders as they’re positioned whilst being supported by way of the bridge piers as a substitute of the bottom.
“The bridge didn’t cave in.
It was once a gantry that fell whilst it was once being introduced at the under-construction bridge,” the spokesperson instructed PTI.
Whilst Mizoram Leader Minister Zoramthanga referred to the incident as a bridge cave in, the Railways claimed that the a part of the bridge which has already been built was once nonetheless intact.
The Bairabi-Sairang line is 51 km lengthy from Bairabi to Sairang beneath the Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways.
The rail line involves 130 bridges, 23 tunnels and 4 stations — Hortoki, Kawnpui, Mualkhang and Sairang.
NEW DELHI: The bridge sagging incident in Mizoram which has claimed 17 lives was once because of the cave in of a gantry that was once being introduced at the under-construction bridge over Kurung river, the Railways mentioned Wednesday.
The Railways has constituted a high-level committee to probe the incident involving the under-construction bridge, one of the most 130 bridges within the Bhairavi-Sairang New Railway Line mission.
A Railways spokesperson mentioned the gantry which collapsed was once designed by way of STUP Marketing consultant and evidence checked by way of IIT Guwahati.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“Prime-level enquiry committee has been constituted to research the subject,” the spokesperson mentioned.
Gantries are heavy metal constructions used to boost and enhance bridge segments or girders as they’re positioned whilst being supported by way of the bridge piers as a substitute of the bottom.
“The bridge didn’t cave in.
It was once a gantry that fell whilst it was once being introduced at the under-construction bridge,” the spokesperson instructed PTI.
Whilst Mizoram Leader Minister Zoramthanga referred to the incident as a bridge cave in, the Railways claimed that the a part of the bridge which has already been built was once nonetheless intact.
The Bairabi-Sairang line is 51 km lengthy from Bairabi to Sairang beneath the Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways.
The rail line involves 130 bridges, 23 tunnels and 4 stations — Hortoki, Kawnpui, Mualkhang and Sairang.