Kolkata the City of joy, Kolkata the Cultural capital of India so many names given by the world for this vibrant city of India. But now Kolkata can be called as the capital of collapsing bridges, well the recent incidents may lead to such naming.
Yesterday’s unfortunate incident of Majherhat Bridge collapse hit the headline in global media to attract the attention of the world to this colonial capital of India.
This report is not for the sad incident but to avoid any such in future to be avoided.
Few points to be noted for Kolkata and as a whole West Bengal:
- Kolkata infrastructure are worst maintained one in the whole country
- No structural effective annual review and on the ground BCP drill for the disaster management. Only paperwork or eyewash carried out.
- Center and state agencies need to be equally blamed.
- Punitive action needed for the people who will issue fit to use certificate without taking action on the ground.
- MLA,MP and all local representative need to be disqualified immediately upon such incident to fix the responsibility and accountability if other than natural accident cases.
- Load test for each bridge needs to be carried out.
Our deep concern that few bridges needs to be inspected immediately:
- Flyover connecting Belghoria Expressway and Airport
- Dhakuria Bridge Connecting Goalpark and Joadhpur Park
- Maa Flyover
- Bullyganj Rail Over Bridge
All the bridges which have a record number of Truck and Buses movement throughout the day must be brought under annual inspection by non state agencies in a vigilant manner.
We can only pray that all segment will stop crocodile tears and start making the ground reality strong enough to avoid any future accident at least reduce the chances.
Blame game of political leaders is truly shameless at this moment of emergency. No PM or CM wants this kind of incident in his or her administration.
Let’s build a nation which will be strong and developed in all terms learning from the mistakes of the past.
#MajherhatBridgeCollapse in #Kolkata. It should be renamed from "City of Joy" to "City of BHOY ( fear ) " pic.twitter.com/QhyqtxZmwe
— Saurav Agarwalla (@follow_saurav) September 4, 2018
Pls find latest docs on ownership n accountability..
No need to be biased in your own terms.
Collapsed of #MajherhatBridge is extremely tragic news.Pray for the victims of the tragic incident and speedy recovery for the victims leaving blame game.#KolkataBridgeCollapse pic.twitter.com/NPlp4IuoUQ— Partha Banerjee (@ParthaB34769052) September 4, 2018
#Kolkata #MajherhatBridge #collapse: Another bridge goes down in City of Joy; check top 5 factshttps://t.co/K0ptXa41U7 #KolkataBridgeCollapse
— Financial Express (@FinancialXpress) September 5, 2018
#MajherhatBridge collapsed. This happened. And the official reports on the no of casualties are saying that only 1 Dead and 24 Injured.
Do you believe this!? Apply common sense. #KolkataBridgeCollapse pic.twitter.com/YDm7RnlEkA
— AlteЯ Ǝgo ツ (@_heisenbong_) September 4, 2018
Governor #KeshariNathTripathi said, #Majherhatbridge that collapsed in #Kolkata Alipore deserved better maintenance. He said, "PWD and Railway administration had the responsibility to maintain it. Matter requires investigation."
| Follow LIVE updates: https://t.co/uyEHAyDuU7 pic.twitter.com/1jOr6ctsmh— Firstpost (@firstpost) September 4, 2018
1/1. Locals say, several other people are trapped under the collapsed chunks of the #MajherhatBridge. Locals did commendable job in rescue primarily. They must be congratulated. Now #GoWB adminstration has taken over. All out efforts should be made sincerely to rescue all. pic.twitter.com/yPiIx3BFLI
— Dr.Sujan Chakraborty (@Sujan_Speak) September 4, 2018
Harsh awakening #MajherhatBridgeCollapse. Only blue-white painting, no maintenance work really. Could be avoided @MamataOfficial, would #GoWB have learnt from #PostaBridge tragedy. Thanks to local people for rescue work. Heartfelt condolences to families of deceased & injured. pic.twitter.com/vEzHIPjrKr
— Dr.Sujan Chakraborty (@Sujan_Speak) September 4, 2018