Professor Chandra Kishen, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, who has been tasked to investigate the Namma Metro accident that led to the death of a woman and her two-year-old son on January 10, has observed that the reinforcement cage at the construction site collapsed possibly because it was not supported by enough structures coupled with the wind factor. He also hinted that the incident could have been prevented with “proper checks on geometry”.
A day after the accident, Bengaluru Metropolitan Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) stated that while the reinforcement work at pier 218 was being carried out with staging and guy-wire supports, one of the guy-wires gave way resulting in swaying and falling of the structure across the KR Puram-Hebbal main carriageway.
