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Lower Parel bridge collapse: Civic bodies knew about 'over-aged' bridge
Updated On: 01 August, 2018 11:37 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar and Laxman Singh
Documents show how civic body and railways knew well that 'over-aged' Delisle Road bridge had to be fully rebuilt
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The Delisle ROB in Lower Parel was shut last week. File pic
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Western Railway (WR) did not need a bridge collapse, two deaths, an audit and shutting down of several road overbridges (ROBs) to realise that some of the city's most crucial ROBs were in desperate need of repairs. This is a fact they have known since 2015 — according to letters exchanged between BMC and WR, accessed by mid-day — but all they have chosen to do is continue their correspondence and blame one another.
The correspondence regarding the ROBs began on November 5, 2015, when WR responded to BMC's letter, stating that six ROBs, namely Frere Road, Belasis Road, Mahalaxmi, Delisle Road, Carol Bridge and Tilak Bridge were under the process of being re-girdered and that BMC was supposed to deposit a sum of Rs 80.53 crore for the same. The civic body responded in November 2016, saying that considering the bridges had completed their codal life, they should be reconstructed instead. BMC said it would bear the costs for the same and requested WR to 'take up the immediate necessary steps for reconstruction of above ROBs' and 'initiate P.E. [plan and estimate] charges against each bridge, so MCGM [BMC] can deposit the same'.
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