{"id":260157,"date":"2022-11-17T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=260157"},"modified":"2022-11-17T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T13:17:00","slug":"bridge-shouldnt-have-been-opened-civic-body-owns-up-to-gujarat-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/11\/17\/bridge-shouldnt-have-been-opened-civic-body-owns-up-to-gujarat-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bridge Shouldn&#8217;t Have Been Opened&#8221;: Civic Body Owns Up To Gujarat Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"&quot;Bridge Shouldn't Have Been Opened&quot;: Civic Body Owns Up To Gujarat Tragedy\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"&quot;Bridge Shouldn't Have Been Opened&quot;: Civic Body Owns Up To Gujarat Tragedy\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Bridge Shouldn't Have Been Opened&quot;: Civic Body Owns Up To Gujarat Tragedy\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-10\/pkg1488g_morbi-bridge-collapse-reuters_625x300_31_October_22.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-11-17T13:40:53+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=666447&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/17112022_MorbiBridgeCase_186028_715422_320.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T4M35S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-10\/pkg1488g_morbi-bridge-collapse-reuters_625x300_31_October_22.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=666447&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">The next date of hearing is November 24 (File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Morbi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0civic body of\u00a0Gujarat&#8217;s Morbi\u00a0has taken responsibility for the collapse of a suspension bridge in the city that killed over 130 people last month, a document shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Morbi Municipal Corporation, in an affidavit, contended before the Gujarat High Court that &#8220;the bridge shouldn&#8217;t have been opened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The high court on Wednesday came down heavily on the civic body over delay in filing an affidavit, giving details of how the collapse occurred, despite two notices.<\/p>\n<p>When the matter was taken up for hearing on Wednesday morning, the court said it would impose a cost of Rs 1 lakh if the civic body did not file the affidavit same evening.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the court sought answers over the manner in which the contract was awarded for maintenance of the 150-year-old bridge to Oreva Group without floating a tender.<\/p>\n<p>The municipality had given the contract to Oreva Group, which is best known for the Ajanta brand of wall clocks,\u00a0in March\u00a0for a period of 15 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the company did not replace the rusted cables but installed a new flooring that proved too heavy.<\/p>\n<p>The high court asked for the basis on which the bridge was being operated by the company after June 2017 &#8220;even when the contract (signed in 2008 for nine years) was not renewed&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far, only nine staff members of the company have been arrested, while the top management, which signed the Rs 7-crore pact, has not faced action, nor have any officers been held accountable for the bridge having been reopened ahead of the renovation schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The high court has summoned the Morbi Municipal Corporation chief, Sandipsinh Zala, on November 24 when the case will be next heard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/gujarat-morbi-bridge-collapse-bridge-shouldnt-have-been-opened-says-civic-body-in-affidavit-in-high-court-3528517\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The next date of hearing is November 24 (File) Morbi: The\u00a0civic body of\u00a0Gujarat&#8217;s Morbi\u00a0has taken responsibility for the collapse of a suspension bridge in the city that killed over 130 people last month, a document shows.\u00a0 The Morbi Municipal Corporation, in an affidavit, contended before the Gujarat High Court that &#8220;the bridge shouldn&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[303098,303143,303172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}