IN 7 Engineers Suspended Over $2.3 Million Bridge with 90-Degree Turn - I don’t see the issue here.

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Central India’s Madhya Pradesh Government recently suspended seven engineers for the faulty design of a 200 million rupee ($2.3 million)bridge with a 90-degree turn.

The new Rail Over Bridge in Bhopal was announced 10 years ago and cost the state of Madhya Pradesh over 200 million rupees to complete. It was supposed to improve connectivity between Mahamai Ka Bagh, Pushpa Nagar, and the station area with New Bhopal, but all it has managed to do so far is spark controversy over a major blunder in its design – a nearly 90-degree turn built into the bridge. Photos of the questionable feature recently went viral on Indian social media, raising concerns over safety and how engineers could have overlooked such a critical error.

After the controversial bridge started trending on X (Twitter), Chief Minister Mohan Yadav launched an inquiry into the situation and subsequently announced the suspension of seven engineers involved in its design, as well as another inquiry into the activity of a retired superintendent engineer in connection with the faulty design.

“Seven engineers, including two chief engineers, have been suspended with immediate effect. A departmental inquiry will be conducted against a retired sub-engineer. Both the construction agency and the design consultant have been blacklisted for submitting faulty design of the ROB,” Yadav said.

Both the design consultant and the architect firm involved in the construction of the Rail Over Bridge have been blacklisted by the local government, but VD Verma, the chief engineeron this project, previously said that he and his team had no other choice but to build the 90-degree turn due to limited land space and the presence of a metro station nearby. Bhopal authorities are now proposing that more land be purchased, which would allow the implementation of a safer turn.

The 648-metre bridge, which cost 200 million rupees to build, was meant to eliminate long delays at railway crossings and shorten the commute for nearly three hundred thousand people, but so far it is only generating controversy.

 

[skunt]

Running across the tracks might seriously be safer.

sarrr the traintracks are hallowed ground. for not only are they a designated shitting area but also prime hunting ground for the indian apex predator - the locomotive.

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

sarrr the traintracks are hallowed ground. for not only are they a designated shitting area but also prime hunting ground for the indian apex predator - the locomotive.

Saaaaaar I am having a shitting emergency from my wife's curry so the train must do the needful and stop for me for I am Indian.

 

[Hitman One]

yes saar me and my cousin deepak premier engineers with degree from prestigious shitstreet university saar. graduate top of class of 4,000 students. please to be doing the needful and redeeming of H1B saar, we build you many cheap strong bridges.

 

[whoishomermynameis]

not my problem

 

[Disdainer of the Plebs]

Chinese tofu-dreg construction begs to differ. And South Korean construction is spotty at times too.

I was thinking more along the lines of Japanese engineers. Of course they decided to hire Americans to show them what to do after the war, so…

 

[UsedUp]

If this bridge successfully kills at least 1 jeet, then the bridge did its job.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

So did the local government just hire the contractors and then never check in on how the bridge was progressing? And was the end result based off blueprints that were approved by the government?

Don't get me wrong, the engineers and firm who did this do have fault. But no one from the government who may have discussed plans, signed off on the work, and a myriad of other things never looked at the proposition and asked WTF? Oh wait, it's India, the proper people got bribed, and since they're government, they're untouchable.

I want to think nobody knew how bad it was until someone on social media (someone with a triple digit IQ) pointed it out.

"90 degrees".....

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The author is as retarded as the enjeetneers.

Seen like this, doesn't look that bad. It's bad, but it was gonna be worse at 90°.

All the had to do was make it a curve.

 

[Kheapathic]

I want to think nobody knew how bad it was until someone on social media (someone with a triple digit IQ) pointed it out.

I saw the post on Twitter a day or two ago, and just going by the picture had a "The bridge looks fine." Then read it here and it was supposed to be a vehicle bridge, we'll, silly me. I thought it was supposed to be a foot/pedestrian bridge.

I like your theory more.

 

[Jinn in the phone]

What are beautifuly indian story through and through. It's got indian excellence, third world incompetence, corruption, petty government veniality, everything.

My guess for the sequence of events is it's announced in 2015-6, Modi was elected in 2014 and a huge plank of his and the BJP was infrastructure development. So they announce this project, start acquiring property, putting out bids, early site preparation etc. The trouble probably started here, they acquired the property with the expectation of being allowed to build on the railway. The 2018 plan accounted for this and you can see that shrub area enclosed in the fence owned by the railway would be a perfect spot for another column. This would save a good portion of the rest of the 200 million for the slushiest part of the fund, construction. Their in negotiations with the railway and wanting to get the show on the road before money really starts to go missing, they begin work on both sides of the bridge in a normal government project dawdle.

Covid happens and throws everything into chaos, incredibly so than normal in the Indian construction industry. A great majority of workers on such things are migrant day laborers who live rough and send money back to their shitty villages. With covid quarantine meaning no pay, so the only thing they can do is go back to their villages by foot or car. Hundreds died this way either by sun, misadventure or by India's apex predator. The condition of the migrants became something of a cause celebre among india's middle class, inflamed by an infamous case where a party of rural migrants were cooking flatbreads on the train tracks in early evening and got redeemed.

Anyhow, the kung-flu is over and it takes a little while for people to trickle back. Project has been in dormancy for probably 2 years, good portion of the money spent but Madyah Pradesh where Bhopal is located, is having local elections in late 2023 and then a national election in late 2024. Madyah Pradesh is a slight INC majority but the city of Bhopal is majority BJP. Probably wanting to impress voters, they get back to working on the abomination. I couldnt find out when the exactly the railway stonewalled the city regarding building on their property, but if I could guess they restarted building according to the 2018 plan while still negotiating with the railway and got to where they could build no longer. The railway finally said absolutely no, the BJP prince whose ass would be grass for just leaving a half-finished bridge in the middle of the capital of the state said "Bloody bitch, I command you madarchode dalit chapal to redeem this bridge" and they fucking did it.

And then, when everyone sees that its retarded and it goes viral, for the venial, image obsessed politicans of india, the true crime has been committed. Domestic and, because of the deep desire for admiration by the pajeet, international image is a huge element of politics. Their top politicans have often called India "Vishwaguru" or "World-Teacher" many times lol. So now that the whole world can see a fine example of Indian excellence, the heads that roll are the engineers impressed into designing this monstrosity and NOW the hive-city fathers are going to put up the money to purchase more land to build it properly. Feel kinda bad for em.

 

[FieldPiece]

If it's for foot traffic I don't see a problem. If it's for cars who cares? Indians don't know how to drive anyways.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

I mean, have you seen how slow traffic in India moves? No one's gonna crash into the bend if they're going 5mph bumper to bumper.

Or am I giving indian drivers too much credit there.

 

[Troon Meet Noose]

It seems like they figured out curves later in the bridge. Why couldn't they have done it for the angled part?

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

If it's for foot traffic I don't see a problem. If it's for cars who cares? Indians don't know how to drive anyways.

Apparently this is a clip made of a 40 min run by a competitor to damage both their careers and this was the first race they ran together.

Or at least there are a bunch of articles on rally sites saying that. I am not a follower myself.

 

[goat sneed]

Transportation is the Indian equivalent of a one-child policy

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Don't get me wrong, the engineers and firm who did this do have fault. But no one from the government who may have discussed plans, signed off on the work, and a myriad of other things never looked at the proposition and asked WTF? Oh wait, it's India, the proper people got bribed, and since they're government, they're untouchable.

Yea, there's supposed to be this thing called Quality Assurance in engineering. As an EE, my designs go through multiple rounds of QA before they get implemented.

The fact that no one saw this glaring error is perplexing.

 

[stares at error messages]

Something very Indian happened.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Internal PWD documents show the original 2018 plan featured a more manageable 45-degree skew. That plan was scrapped after the Railways refused to approve construction on its land. A second design attempted to accommodate the Metro line. A third version adjusted for alignment errors, though the Railways later admitted that the final result “is neither fulfilling the functional requirement nor safe for road users.”

The needful was NOT done.

 

[Screamer_2]

Don't worry, it's not like our countries are deciding to recognise qualifications from India.......... oh shit..........

 

[Snekposter]

a party of rural migrants were cooking flatbreads on the train tracks in early evening and got redeemed

That has to be one of the most Indian things I have ever heard of.

 

[TooManyKittens]

Sounds more like corrupt officials that blew the money on the project on other shit and powertripping Railway officials refusing an entirely reasonable request from the engineers.

So this but it's also jeets engineering but here's why...

The culture of India is utterly incompatible with good engineering practices. Even if they were smart, they're not diligent. The more someone can lie and scam their way up they do. Warming a seat to be the bosses nepo favorite is more valuable than work, which yes that happens in the USA but an order of magnitude worse. It's also why Indian ceos are making every tech company even worse and dragging them to the bottom.

The other problem is that covering up problems is also, while a global problem, worse here.
There's a reason Boeing outsourced some of the disasterous 757 MAXX software changes that charged for access to second sensors to India. It bypassed the American engineers who might have both told the FAA and might have whistleblown despite the risks.

The Indian government is some of the most incompetent insanity known to man. The Bophal industrial disaster they like to blame DOW who bought UCC who owned the India branch only owned 50.9%..the actual Indian company was 49.1% by Indian government entities. Literally this very fucking town had a fairly nasty fucking chemical release where everything that could be safety fucked was safety fucked

I don't love bug corporations, and I don't think US chemical corps are innocent. But the sheer incompetence and sequential maintenance failures and literally basically building a time bomb that inevitably went off was done by, overseen by, and almost half owned by fucking Jeets.

Jeets are scammers saar and they don't care if you redeem as long as someone else does not and they get theirs. There's a reason almost all the phone scammers are Indian.

THis is what you bring in on H1B visas and when you let Patel Paneer run all of tech which wasn't *nice* to start with. But this is the nature of Indian culture.

You don't even have to be racist to see the fucking problem and you can get libshits to admit it if you don't pose it as such.

Of fucking course they're also genetically inferior and this behavior isn't fixable but we can just not say the quiet part out loud for the normies