The decision was announced by Chaitanya Prasad, Additional Chief Secretary, Water Resources Department, and Deepak Kumar Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, Rural Affairs Department, who stressed the seriousness of the state government regarding the issue.
Of the 17 suspended engineers, 11 are from the water resources department, including executive engineers Amit Anand and Kumar Brijesh; Assistant Engineers Raj Kumar, Chandramohan Jha, Simran Anand, and Neha Rani; and junior engineers Mohammad Majeed, Ravi Kumar Rajneesh, Rafi-ul-Hoda Ansari, Ratnesh Gautam and Prabhat Ranjan.
Additionally, six engineers from the Rural Works Department have also been suspended, including executive engineers Anjani Kumar and Ashutosh Kumar Ranjan; Junior engineers Virendra Prasad and Manish Kumar, and two others.
“Recently nine bridges collapsed in different districts, of which six were very old while three were under construction. On July 3 and 4, six culverts over the Chhadi and Gandaki rivers in Siwan and Saran districts collapsed,” Chaitanya Prasad said.
“Action is being taken against the contractors, including initiating blacklisting process to prevent them from being allotted any work in future. Recovery of payments made to contractors is underway, while pending payments of all contractors have been put on hold for the time being,” Prasad said.
Deepak Kumar Singh said, three culverts under the Rural Works Department have been damaged. A four-member team was formed under the leadership of Chief Engineer Nirmal Kumar to investigate the matter. Based on its report, six engineers of the department have been suspended.
Of the 17 suspended engineers, 11 are from the water resources department, including executive engineers Amit Anand and Kumar Brijesh; Assistant Engineers Raj Kumar, Chandramohan Jha, Simran Anand, and Neha Rani; and junior engineers Mohammad Majeed, Ravi Kumar Rajneesh, Rafi-ul-Hoda Ansari, Ratnesh Gautam and Prabhat Ranjan.
Additionally, six engineers from the Rural Works Department have also been suspended, including executive engineers Anjani Kumar and Ashutosh Kumar Ranjan; Junior engineers Virendra Prasad and Manish Kumar, and two others.
“Recently nine bridges collapsed in different districts, of which six were very old while three were under construction. On July 3 and 4, six culverts over the Chhadi and Gandaki rivers in Siwan and Saran districts collapsed,” Chaitanya Prasad said.
“Action is being taken against the contractors, including initiating blacklisting process to prevent them from being allotted any work in future. Recovery of payments made to contractors is underway, while pending payments of all contractors have been put on hold for the time being,” Prasad said.
Deepak Kumar Singh said, three culverts under the Rural Works Department have been damaged. A four-member team was formed under the leadership of Chief Engineer Nirmal Kumar to investigate the matter. Based on its report, six engineers of the department have been suspended.
