Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel suspended four engineers of the state’s roads and buildings department in connection with the bridge collapse on Mahisagar river in Vadodara district a day earlier that has resulted in 16 deaths while some persons are missing.
According to PTI, CM Patel, who handles the roads and buildings department, had asked experts to prepare a report on the repairs, inspections and quality checks conducted at the bridge, and the decision to suspend the four engineers was taken on the basis of this report, a government release said.
Those suspended with immediate effect are executive engineer NM Nayakawala, deputy executive engineers UC Patel and RT Patel as well as assistant engineer JV Shah, the release informed.
The CM has ordered department officials to immediately conduct intensive inspections of other bridges in the state in view of the incident, the release added.
