{"id":533192,"date":"2022-11-01T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=533192"},"modified":"2022-11-01T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T04:39:07","slug":"sneak-peak-into-major-bridge-collapse-incidents-in-india-in-recent-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sneak-peak-into-major-bridge-collapse-incidents-in-india-in-recent-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneak peak into major bridge collapse incidents in India in recent past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Gujarat reels from one of the deadliest bridge collapse incidents in India&#8217;s recent history, claiming at least 134 lives, PTI recalls other such tragic episodes that have shocked the nation in the past several years.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2020 study &#8216;Analysis of bridge failures in India from 1977 to 2017&#8217;, published in international journal &#8216;Structure and Infrastructure Engineering&#8217;, as many as &#8220;2,130 bridges&#8221; &#8212; excluding culverts and pedestrian bridges &#8212; have failed to provide intended service or collapsed during various phases of construction in the last four decades.<\/p>\n<p>1. Darjeeling bridge collapse (2011): Thirty-two people were killed and over 60 injured when an old wooden footbridge over a spring gave away, under the pressure of crowd, during a Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) meeting at Bijanbari in Darjeeling district on October 22, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Gujarat reels from one of the deadliest bridge collapse incidents in India&#8217;s recent history, claiming at least 134 lives, PTI recalls other such tragic episodes that have shocked the nation in the past several years. According to a 2020 study &#8216;Analysis of bridge failures in India from 1977 to 2017&#8217;, published in international journal &#8216;Structure and Infrastructure Engineering&#8217;, as many as &#8220;2,130 bridges&#8221; &#8212; excluding culverts and pedestrian bridges &#8212; have failed to provide intended service or collapsed during various phases of construction in the last four decades. 1. Darjeeling bridge collapse (2011): Thirty-two people were killed and over [&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-533192","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\/533192","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=533192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}