In Gujarat’s Morbi, a bridge collapsed less than eight months ago, killing roughly 150 people. Soon after they are built, many bridges and other structures start to crack and are no longer safe to use. In 2020, a Rs 50 crore road overbridge in Kochi that had been in place for three years had to be removed because it had developed flaws.
Source: The Indian Express
A week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inauguration, portions of a motorway in Bundelkhand last year collapsed. All around the nation, there are numerous such instances of substandard and subpar construction of roads, buildings, bridges, and other facilities.
The Bihar bridge, which was intended to connect the districts of Bhagalpur and Khagaria, received particular attention due to both the spectacle of its collapse and the fact that it was a significant project with an estimated cost of Rs 1,700 crore. It has a history of often missing deadlines. Last year, a few of the bridge’s pillars fell, and wind and rain were said to be to blame. How concrete bridge supports may be blown away by wind was not explained.
Experts from IIT-Roorkee discovered major structural flaws in the bridge, according to deputy chief minister Tejaswi Yadav, but there is no explanation as to why the flaws were not fixed in a timely manner. If a bridge is to be built there at all, the entire project must be scrapped and everything must be done from scratch.
Source: India Today
The poor workmanship is undoubtedly the fault of the contractors. A nexus involving all three of them is constantly at work to cause buildings, bridges, and roads to collapse, thus politicians and bureaucrats should also share some of the guilt. They may split commissions at different rates depending on where they are, but without these commissions, no job would get done.
There is a certain amount of impunity about it as well because poor work is rarely penalised by imprisonment or other forms of punishment. The Morbi tragedy’s perpetrators weren’t even detained for several months. No construction will be safe until the guilty are brought to justice and forced to pay for their crimes, improving the quality and standards of work.
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