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more-inThe Majerhat bridge, a portion of which collapsed last week, will be demolished and a new bridge will be constructed, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday. “They cannot avoid responsibilities,” Ms.
Banerjee told reporters at the state secretariat. A section of the over 50-year-old bridge on the arterial Diamond Harbour Road in south Kolkata collapsed on September 4 in which 3 persons lost their lives. She said there was negligence on the part of PWD officials in the bridge collapse. She said the new bridge would come up in a year’s time..