A bridge has collapsed on the Mumbai-Nagpur Samriddhi Highway in Maharashtra’s Nashik district. On Tuesday, the police said that the incident took place on Monday evening near Gangadwadi on the Sinnar-Ghoti section of the expressway. He told that there was no casualty in the accident.
A bridge near Gangadwadi on the Sinnar-Ghoti section of the expressway in Nashik suddenly collapsed on Monday evening, a police official said. At that time the work of installing ‘girders’ on the bridge was going on. He told that there was no casualty in the accident.
The Sinnar-Ghoti section of the expressway is yet to be opened for the public. After the incident, there was chaos in the area for some time. The official name of the project is ‘Hindu Hriday Samrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samridhi Mahamarg’ and its total length will be 701 km. Significantly, the first phase of the expressway was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Nagpur last year.