Ramsetu bridge suffered structural injury after the primary rainfall since its building
AJMER: In a damning indictment of public infrastructure administration, the Ajmer Judicial Justice of the Peace Court docket Quantity-2 on Wednesday ordered to instantly shut the newly inaugurated Ramsetu bridge that suffered structural injury final week after the primary rainfall since its building.Rajasthan’s Rs 243 crore mission, meant to be a logo of city growth, now stands as a monument to alleged administrative negligence and questionable building practices.Decide Manmohan Chandel handed the order whereas treating a joint go well with filed by two residents as a PIL. The court docket has directed each the Ajmer Municipal Company (AMC) and the Ajmer Sensible Metropolis Ltd (ASCL) to submit their responses by July 11. The go well with was filed on July 5, after which court docket issued notices to the district collector, AMC and ASCL. Not one of the respondents appeared on July 8 resulting in a subsequent listening to on July 9.The closure order got here on Wednesday regardless of the company’s assertion that it had blocked one of many 4 roads on the elevated stretch. The court docket famous that because the identical materials was used within the bridge’s building, all the construction posed a security danger.The court docket’s resolution got here after stunning revelations that the bridge, operational for merely days, confirmed vital structural deterioration following the season’s first heavy rainfall on July 3. Extra alarmingly, court docket proceedings revealed the mission proceeded with out professional session, and relied as a substitute on choices made by a neighborhood residents’ discussion board. The urgent query that folks at the moment are grappling with is: How did a multi-crore infrastructure mission fail so spectacularly, and who will likely be held accountable?
