Left Front govt responsible for collapse of Posta Flyover

Kolkata | Tuesday | 3rd December, 2019

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Kolkata: State Urban Development and Municipal Affairs minister Firhad Hakim on Tuesday held the erstwhile Left Front government responsible for the collapse of Posta Flyover saying that the agency assigned to complete the project had sketched a faulty design. It may be mentioned here that Posta Flyover tragedy had claimed around 28 lives on 31 March 2016. While responding to a question in the Assembly, Hakim said: "The design of the flyover was faulty. We came to know that the former Urban Development minister Asok Bhattacharya was forced to engage a firm that had been blacklisted earlier. The fate of the flyover still hangs in balance even nearly four years after the collapse..