Bihar Government on Tuesday slapped show cause notice on the construction company after the collapse of the Aguwani-Sultanganj bridge in Bhagalpur on Sunday evening.
Days after an under-construction bridge over the Ganga river collapsed like a house of cards in Bihar's Bhagalpur, the Deputy Development Commissioner of the district Kumar Anurag on Tuesday said that no casualties have been reported due to the incident.
Additional Chief Secretary for Bihar Road Construction Department Pratyaya Amrit on Tuesday said that the investigation into the collapse of the under-construction bridge in Bihar's Bhagalpur will be completed soon adding that a new bridge shall be constructed.
A PIL has been filed in the Patna High Court seeking an independent enquiry into the collapse of the Aguwani-Sultanganj bridge in Bihar's Bhagalpur on Sunday.
On Sunday, an under-construction Aguwani-Sultanganj bridge in Bhagalpur collapsed and the moment when the bridge collapsed in the Ganga River was caught on video by locals.
No casualties have been reported in the collapse of the bridge in Bihar's Bhagalpur that occurred on Sunday, said Southern Bhagalpur Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Dhananjay Kumar.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar responding to the Bhagalpur bridge collapse said that he had instructed officials to take strict action as the bridge is not being constructed correctly that's why it is collapsing again and again.
"I have seen visuals of the bridge collapsing. The bridge collapsed under the weight of the corrupt JDU-RJD government. RJD has a doctorate when it comes to jobs for land scams or fodder scams but this is a new form of ghotala (scam) known as 'Bridge Ghotala'. "This is the testimony of how N
Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Monday hit out at the Bihar government led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying that the Bhagalpur bridge, which collapsed yesterday, is a display of how the latter has transmuted from "Sushasan babu to Bhrashtachari and Ku
While speaking to ANI, Lalit Narayan Mandal said," Did PM Modi or Railway Minister resign after the Odisha train accident? The bridge collapse in Bhagalpur is a tragic incident and I do not want to politicise the matter."
While addressing the press conference, Sanjeev Kumar said," "It is a matter of great concern, but it is good that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has taken cognizance of this matter and has ordered a high-level inquiry. There was already an apprehension about the structure. I had raised the matt