Yogi orders action against 7 officials
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath ordered on Thursday that penal action should be taken against seven UP Bridge Corporation officials, including its managing director Rajan Mittal, in connection with the collapse of a section of the Varanasi flyover.
The decision was taken by the chief minister after a three-member probe panel submitted its report late Thursday night. Apparently, pre-empting action against Mittal, deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya relieved him from the post hours before Adityanath ordered action.
While chief project manager HC Tiwari, project manager KR Sudan, assistant engineer Rajesh Singh and engineer Lal Chand were suspended with immediate effect on the day of the tragedy itself, others against whom action has been ordered on the basis of the findings of the probe report include former project manager Genda Lal and additional project
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manager Rajesh Pal.
The probe report has indicted the officials for not getting drawings approved before undertaking the construction work, maintaining proper record and check list at site of construction material, and negligence in not taking due care in securely tying connecting beams in between the pillar columns with cross-beam.
Issuing a six-point check list and procedure to be followed by construction units in future projects, the chief minister said any laxity on this count would not be tolerated. He has also called for third party inspection by an independent agency of all important projects.