New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) A four-member committee will probe the collapse of an underconstruction Delhi Metro span that led to the death of five people in south Delhi Sunday.
“The four-member committee will inquire into the accident and will submit its report within 10 days,” Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) chief E. Sreedharan told reporters.

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The members of the probe committee are A.K. Nagpal of the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, and two officials from DMRC - Rajan Kataria, head of design cell, and Steven Lowry, project director for general construction. B.R. Bose of the Delhi College of Engineering is the only woman member of the committee.

Sreedharan, the managing director of the DMRC, has sent in his resignation to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, taking “moral responsibility” for the collapse of a section of the elevated Metro rail track that killed five people and injured 15 others. The span between two pillars caved in near Kailash Colony in south Delhi where work is progressing on the new Metro line between Central Secretariat and Badarpur.

–Indo-ASian News Service

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