First Puja shopping and now the wedding season. The ailing Bijon Setu’s health survey has been stalled again.
Mayor Firhad Hakim said on Saturday that Bijon Setu was not going to be closed immediately because “this is wedding season”. Hakim added that the authorities would look for a date in January to close the 500-metre-long bridge that was built in the early 70s.
Some engineers wondered if the repeated postponement of the health study of the bridge was a good thing to do for the authorities. Police officers and engineers of the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) had said that they were anticipating a shutdown of Bijon Setu on a weekend this week or the next.
