{"id":41753,"date":"2022-10-31T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/punjabi\/?p=41753"},"modified":"2022-10-31T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:43:00","slug":"pm-modi-to-visit-morbi-bridge-collapse-site-on-tuesday-death-toll-rises-to-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/punjabi\/pm-modi-to-visit-morbi-bridge-collapse-site-on-tuesday-death-toll-rises-to-133\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi to visit Morbi bridge collapse site on Tuesday, death toll rises to 133"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no_first_intro_para\"><strong>Gujarat 31 oct (Press Ki Taquat) : <\/strong>Prime Minister Narendra Modi,\u00a0who is on a three-day tour to election-bound Gujarat, will be visiting Morbi on Tuesday, November 1, in the wake of the bridge collapse over Machchhu river that has led to the death of 133 people so far speaking in kevadi,\u00a0Modi Monday said that he was pained by the tragedy in Morbi. \u201cI express my condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the tragedy. The Gujarat government is with them. The state government has been carrying out rescue operations with its full strength,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ev-meter-content\">\n<p>Citing gross negligence and mismanagement, officers at B-division Morbi city police station lodged first information report (FIR) over the incident. \u00a0The FIR\u00a0has named \u201cthe agency responsible for maintaining the bridge\u201d and the \u201cmanagement agency\u201d as accused, without naming the company in-charge of maintenance and repair or specific individuals, under IPC sections 304 and 308 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), officers said.<\/p>\n<p>The Gujarat government has appointed a five- members committee of bureaucrats and police officers to probe into the incident. A spokesperson of the Oreva Group, a private firm responsible for maintaining and managing the bridge, stated that \u201cprima facie, the bridge collapsed as too many people in the mid-section of the bridge were trying to sway it from one way to the other.\u201d Sandeepsinh Zala, Chief Officer, Morbi Municipality, told Press Ki Taquat that \u201cthe private firm threw the bridge open to visitors without notifying us and therefore, we couldn\u2019t get a safety audit of the bridge conducted\u2026 the local municipality had not yet issued any fitness certificate (after the renovation work).\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"o-story-content__ad\">\n<div id=\"gpt_ad_IE_ROS_RESP_FOURTH\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ev-meter-content\">\n<section class=\"o-story-content__live\">\n<div class=\"bloghead\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat 31 oct (Press Ki Taquat) : Prime Minister Narendra Modi,\u00a0who is on a three-day tour to election-bound Gujarat, will be visiting Morbi on Tuesday, November 1, in the wake of the bridge collapse over Machchhu river that has led to the death of 133 people so far speaking in kevadi,\u00a0Modi Monday said that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,10243,1865,25,19,1961,20,18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-chandigarh","category-delhi","category-english-news","category-entertainment","category-haryana","category-india","category-sports","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41755,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41753\/revisions\/41755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/punjabi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}