{"id":490796,"date":"2022-05-11T08:49:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T03:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=490796"},"modified":"2022-05-11T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T03:32:17","slug":"bihar-bridge-collapses-union-minister-gadkari-blames-low-grade-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bihar-bridge-collapses-union-minister-gadkari-blames-low-grade-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar bridge collapses, Union Minister Gadkari blames low-grade material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister, Nitin Gadkari, on Tuesday blamed low-quality construction material for the collapse of a bridge in Bhagalpur district of Bihar.<\/p>\n<p>A section of the bridge which connected Sultanganj in Bhagalpur district to Khagaria in Munger district collapsed on April 29.<\/p>\n<p>The Bihar government officials submitted a report to the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways wherein it mentioned that the bridge had collapsed due to strong wind and fog.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recently, a bridge collapsed in Bihar&#8217;s Bhagalpur district. When I asked my secretary about that incident, he, on the basis of the report, said the bridge collapsed due to wind and fog,&#8221; Gadkari said while addressing people at an event in New Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister, Nitin Gadkari, on Tuesday blamed low-quality construction material for the collapse of a bridge in Bhagalpur district of Bihar. A section of the bridge which connected Sultanganj in Bhagalpur district to Khagaria in Munger district collapsed on April 29. The Bihar government officials submitted a report to the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways wherein it mentioned that the bridge had collapsed due to strong wind and fog. &#8220;Recently, a bridge collapsed in Bihar&#8217;s Bhagalpur district. When I asked my secretary about that incident, he, on the basis of the report, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}