A piece of an almost 75-year-old overbridge in Indore has collapsed with a member of the civic company’s mayoral council blaming rat infestation for the collapse, a declare junked by civil engineering consultants who stated it was brought on by lack of upkeep and site visitors surge. Photograph: Harsh Jain, Congress MP spokesperson
A piece of an almost 75-year-old overbridge in Indore has collapsed with a member of the civic company’s mayoral council blaming rat infestation for the collapse, a declare junked by civil engineering consultants who stated it was brought on by lack of upkeep and site visitors surge.
Officers stated a bit of the Shastri Bridge, positioned on a busy highway within the Madhya Pradesh metropolis, collapsed on Sunday (November 2, 2025), making a five-by-seven-foot gap.
They stated following the incident, the Indore Municipal Company (IMC) has began fixing the cavity and was additionally finishing up further structural restore work on the bridge.
Rajendra Rathore, in-charge of the Public Works Division within the IMC’s Mayor-in-Council, advised PTI on Tuesday, “There isn’t any structural defect within the Shastri Bridge. Nonetheless, there’s a menace of rats on this bridge. Massive rats have dug quite a few burrows close to the footpath, hollowing out the bridge. This induced a bit of the bridge to sink.”
Mr. Rathore famous that to fight the rat infestation, the footpath of the Shastri Bridge is being bolstered with a brand new layer of cement-concrete, and residents have been suggested to not give meals or drinks to needy individuals sitting on the construction as this stuff appeal to rodents.
The restore work on the bridge has been sanctioned at a price of ₹40 lakh, he knowledgeable.
Officers stated the restore work is being carried out in keeping with requirements of the Indian Roads Congress (IRC) and primarily based on suggestions of civil engineering consultants from the town’s Shri GS Institute of Expertise and Science (SGSITS).
SGSITS is a government-aided autonomous establishment.
One among these consultants, talking on situation of anonymity, stated, “The sinking of a bit of the Shastri Bridge is a get up name. The site visitors strain on the bridge is continually rising, and this incident is a results of insufficient upkeep. Rats alone couldn’t have induced such a big cavity within the bridge, and this incident is a consequence of structural misery.”
Based on requirements, each bridge older than 25 years ought to bear common testing of its power and load-bearing capability to remove the potential of accidents, he recommended.
Printed – November 05, 2025 03:02 am IST