Bihar bridge collapse: Govt seeks Military & BRO assist, orders probe | India Information
3 min learnPatnaMight 5, 2026 04:44 AM IST
Hours after the collapse of the Vikramshila bridgeBihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary Monday sought help from the BRO and the Military to rebuild it.
A span of the Ganga bridge — which connects South Bihar to the Kosi and Seemanchal areas — collapsed, forcing site visitors to be diverted to the Munger–Khagaria bridge over the Ganga.
Nawal Kishore Choudhary, District Justice of the Peace, Bhagalpur, stated the collapse occurred in two levels — preliminary structural failures at bridge quantity 133 round 11.55 pm, adopted by a complete span collapse at 1.07 am that cut up the 4.7-km bridge into two.
“No untoward incident was reported as an alert had been sounded. We’ve got diverted Bhagalpur site visitors in direction of Munger whereas site visitors on the opposite facet has been diverted in direction of Khagaria,” he stated. Two engineers from the Street Development Division have been suspended for “ignoring crimson flags”, and a probe has been ordered.
Opened below the Rabri Devi authorities in 2001, the 4.7-km bridge falls below the Nationwide Highways wing of the Bihar Street Development Division and the Bihar Rajya Pul Nirman Nigam Restricted. With repairs more likely to take a number of months, and a parallel four-lane bridge below building anticipated to be operational solely later this yr, buses and freight vehicles must take an extended path to Jharkhand through North Bihar, Kosi and Seemanchal.
Choudhary spoke to Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singhseeking permission for the BRO and the Military to take up reconstruction. In the meantime, Chandrashekhar Singh, chairman of the Bihar Rajya Pul Nirman Nigam Ltd, stated the broken portion can be repaired inside three months.
“It may have been a significant incident as there’s a enormous site visitors rush on the bridge however for alertness of Bhagalpur district administration. A span of the bridge has been broken and caved within the river however the pillar is totally secure,” he stated.
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He admitted that considerations concerning the bridge’s security had been flagged earlier.
“We had obtained data round a month in the past about some minor downside (cropping up within the bridge). A group from RCD and Pul Nirman Nigam was despatched to review and provides its suggestions. We additionally sought recommendation from IIT Patna, and it was discovered that each the pillars and the bridge are intact, though a false wall had been broken,” Singh stated.
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