In 3 Days, 6 Bridges Wash Away In Rain-Hit Madhya Pradesh, Probe Ordered

A government report accessed by NDTV says that four of the six bridges that got washed away were built in the past 12 years at a cost of 33.55 crores.

The washing away of six bridges in three days in rain-hit Gwalior-Chambal region of Madhya Pradesh has raised quetions over the built quality of the structures developed by the state over the past decades. A government report accessed by NDTV says that four of the six bridges that got washed away were built in the past 12 years at a cost of 33.55 crores. The internal note also mentions that there is no record of cost incurred on the bridges built on Datia's Sewda in 1982 and Sheopur's Manpur in 1985. The Ratangarh Basai bridge that got washed away was built in 2010 at a cost of 5.9 crores; the Indragarh-Pichore bridge was completed in 2013, at a cost of 10 crores; the Sheopur Baroda bridge was completed in 2013 at a cost of Rs 3.94 crore; while the Gorai bridge in Bhind was completed in 2017 at a cost of Rs 13.71 crores.