Rajasthan: Around 45 passengers have been injured when a non-public bus rammed into two vans, which had already collided with one another on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Rajasthan’s Dausa district on Thursday (January 2), police stated.
Nangal-Rajawatan DSP Charul Gupta stated {that a} bus of devotees was going from Ujjain to Delhi when the accident occurred resulting from dense fog. The DSP stated round 45 passengers within the bus have been injured and greater than 20 have been admitted to Dausa District Hospital.
The entrance a part of the bus was badly broken within the accident, police stated. Additional medical doctors and employees have been deployed on the directions of District Hospital Chief Medical Officer Dr Deepak Sharma following info that numerous individuals have been injured.
Earlier on December 5, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari stated 4 contractors have been held chargeable for deficiencies detected within the building of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway and strict motion can be taken in opposition to them.
“After noting the deficiencies, we roped in experts from IIT-Kharagpur and IIT-Gandhinagar. Initial findings of the report show there are deficiencies in its construction,” the Union transport minister stated throughout Question Hour within the Lok Sabha.
Gadkari dominated out any wrongdoing within the building materials used within the expressway.
“It is not an issue about the quality of construction material. There has been no wrongdoing in it. There is a 10-year defect liability period of the highway and the contractors will be held liable,” he stated.
The minister stated fixing the accountability of officers and suspending the defaulters, retiring the redundant employees and blacklisting contractors can be a part of his technique.
“We have issued notices to four contractors and will blacklist them. Strict action will be taken. Action will also be taken against officials concerned,” he stated.
Noting the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is the nation’s longest such street and was constructed within the shortest time, Gadkari stated, “The expressway was built at a cost of Rs 1 lakh crore. It has reduced the distance between Delhi and Mumbai by 200 km. The travel time between the two cities has now reduced to 12 hours.”
