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Opinion
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| THE HEIGHT OF CORRUPTION, THE RUINS OF BRIDGES IN INDIA Written by Ashok Raina | | | | The laws of nature have finally exposed the corruption in independent India. The rainy season and the roaring clouds have created more difficulties in the path of life when in the outline of life, man was already swept away by corruption. The condition of the bridges constructed at various places is itself raising questions on the dictatorial actions of the government and the picture is also surprising everyone.
If we show the pictures of Bihar government, then it will be a matter of grave concern and all the construction work that was done there has been submerged. The flowing rivers are telling the stories of the mismanagement of the construction of bridges but why are all the friendly parties becoming silent spectators, it cannot be ruled out that they are accountable to the people there, maybe their silence can be an excuse to bring some new twist in the coming elections. Despite crores of rupees being invested in the construction of bridges, there is still a lot of discontent among the people and their connectivity with other localities is also badly affected.
Similar incidents are being witnessed in various parts of India. In Jaipur, the condition of roads is very bad and people of that locality are facing many difficulties and not only this but the scenes of roads getting ruined are being seen in many parts of the country due to which many accidents have taken place and many people have died. People are facing pain and sorrow only because of the root of the height of corruption practice in the country.
In many parts of the country, the railway links were also seen as a nuisance for the people. In many states, rail travel for common people was also badly affected, i.e. traffic was completely disrupted causing acute loss of economical trade to the country.
If we talk about Jammu and Kashmir, too many bridges have collapsed during construction due to poor construction work. On 02 January 2022, more than 27 workers were killed in Samba, On April 15 ,2023 Girl died, 64 injured at unhamper in J&K bridge collapse. On Jun 20, 2024 A bridge collapsed near the Amarnath Yatra base camp in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam and left two vehicles stranded. On April 17, 2025, a bridge collapsed in Rajouri due to heavy rain and storm; many vehicles were buried under the debris. This bridge connects Hanjana and Bareri villages. South Kashmir’s longest bridge in district kulgam constructed with help of a world bank loan of Rs 32 crores has developed a large number of cracks within the little span of time due to lack of work culture and attitude of the sphere of environmental corruption masters.
If we talk about the state of Gujarat, the condition of construction work there is even more saddening. The construction work was affected due to the sudden floods and rains. Should we consider this as the anger of Indra Devta or the misfortune of corruption?
On July 9, 2025, a span of a 40-year-old bridge in Vadodara in Gujarat caved in, sending half-a-dozen vehicles into the Mahisagar river below. On Thursday (July 10, 2025), 18 people were confirmed dead. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has ordered an investigation into the cause, which locals have alleged to be the long-standing neglect by local authorities. On June 15, 2025, an iron pedestrian bridge over the Indrayani river in Pune district collapsed due to overloading, leaving four dead. In May, a concrete slab being hoisted by a crane at the site of the construction of a bridge over the Kathajodi river in Cuttack fell on workers below, killing three. Similarly, in 2024, the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse in Mumbai resulted in 17 fatalities. And in 2023, there were more accidents — a girder failure at an under-construction railway bridge in Mizoram left 26 workers dead; a rooftop billboard collapse killed two women in Lucknow; and a pillar collapse at a metro construction site in Bengaluru killed a mother and her toddler. In 2022, the Morbi suspension bridge over the Machchhu river, again in Gujarat, failed, killing more than 140 people. These are only some of the hundreds of incidents involving the catastrophic failure of public infrastructure. They are accompanied by road accidents and deadly fires in crowded areas, both of which regularly claim many lives.
In this context, there is a huge list from across the country that is thus not possible to visualize here. After all, we can say that our dreams were not put on the scale of success in the face of corruption. | | | | |
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