DMRC sacks official for negligence in bridge collapse case
July 15th, 2009 - 8:37 pm ICT by ANINew Delhi, July 15 (ANI): The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has sacked official in-charge of the Badarpur Metro line, Vijay Anand, for neglecting his duty, following shocking collapse of an under construction Metro pillar in south Delhi.
Six persons were killed and 15 others injured when an under-construction bridge of the Delhi Metro collapsed on Sunday.
The collapse had prompted DMRC chief E Sreedharan to resign owing the moral responsibility for the worst mishap involving the modern transport system.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Lieutenant Governor Tejinder Khanna had rejected Sreedharan’s resignation, saying the city needed the man to continue his work.
The accident took place at around 5 am when a pillar of the bridge gave in during some construction work near Lady Sriram College in South Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar.
Four labourers and a 28-year-old engineer of Gammon India, the contractor of the project, were killed in the mishap, the second such incident in nine months.
DMRC set up a four-member committee to examine reasons for the accident and it would submit its report in 10 days. (ANI)
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