Commonwealth shame: Army likely to reconstruct collapsed foot overbridge

The army is likely to reconstruct the collapsed foot over-bridge that was connecting the Jawarharlal Nehru stadium to a parking lot.

The government on Tuesday faced embarrassment when the under-construction foot overbridge collapsed injuring 27 people outside the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, the main venue for the mega event.

The collapse of the 95-metre long hanging bridge was the second such incident since Monday when a canopy erected at the stadium fell, injuring an additional deputy commissioner of police and another policeman. The bridge caved in around 3.10pm when construction work was underway.

The overbridge was built in four months at a cost of Rs5 crore by a Hyderabad-based infrastructure company, which was contracted by the Delhi government’s public works department.