Bihar 10th Bridge Collapse: Design Flaws and Cement Quality at Fault

Bihar 10th Bridge Collapse: With the Thursday bridge collapse incident in Bihar's Saran district, the number of bridge collapse incidents has risen to 10th in the past few days.

In the last two days, Bihar witnessed two bridge collapse incidents, one in Siwan district on Wednesday and another one in Saran district on July 4.

Thus, the bridge design flaws and poor cement quality used to build the bridges are responsible for these incidents.

Amid the bridge collapse incidents, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has ordered the department officials to thoroughly investigate all the old bridges in Bihar.

The Chief Minister has requested the road construction and rural works departments look into the matter as soon as possible and improve bridge maintenance policies.

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However, no casualties have been reported till now in the collapse of the bridges in the last two days but it is causing huge problems for the village people as they can’t use the bridge to go to the other side and have to take a long route.

These bridges were built long ago by the local authorities and no maintenance was done to them in these years.

The officials are still investigating these bridges and trying to find out the reason behind such incidents.

In the past few days, three bridges collapsed in Bihar, two were from the Saran district which was very close to each other and the third one was a 15-year-old bridge that collapsed on the Gandaki River on July 4.

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Bridge collapse incidents were also reported in the Siwan, Madhubani, Araria, East Champaran, Kisanganj, Muzaffarpur, and Saran districts of Bihar.

The Deputy Development Commissioner on Wednesday said that investigations are going on to discover the exact cause of the fall and repair works are also going on at the same time.

As per the reports, villagers said that Bihar experienced continuous rainfalls for the past few days that affected the poor cement quality and bridge design flaws thus resulting in the collapse of the bridges across Bihar.

Such incidents have raised concerns about construction issues in India and the dereliction of the ministers and departments toward the maintenance of these bridges.

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