Recently I had expressed joy as a construction man at the completion of the Rohtang tunnel. Today I hang my head in shame at the state of the Posta flyover of Kolkata that I had occasion to see.
It collapsed in 2016 and killed 50 people. How callous can be a government
It collapsed in 2016 and killed 50 people. How callous can be a government
be that not even the debris could be removed in 4 years? No responsibility could be fixed for the disaster! No report made public,no discussion in professional journals from which other engineers could draw lessons and prevent similar collapses in future!
I remember the cases
I remember the cases
of Tacoma Narrows bridge (nicknamed ‘Galloping Gertie’) and Grand Coulee Dam,both in the Washington state of USA. Both suffered disasters and both were thoroughly investigated and publicised. Yet we engineers know nothing about Posta flyover and Majherhat bridge collapses
of Kolkata. This is the result of over-politicisation,in which truth takes a back seat and the emphasis is on avoiding blame. The Leftists taught this and their pupil Didi follows it.Meanwhile the residents of Posta suffer in silence amid the huge graveyard of concrete and steel.
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