Aizwal, Aug 25: The union railway ministry has formed a high-level committee to probe the Mizoram bridge collapse incident.
In the incident, at least 23 construction workers lost their lives after an under-construction railway bridge collapsed at Sairang near Aizawl in Mizoram on Wednesday (August 23).
The high-level probe committee will be investigating the Mizoram bridge collapse incident.
The probe committee will be headed by BP Awasthi, PED-II, RDSO.
The other three members of the committee include Dr. Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, associate dean and professor of structural engineering at IIT-Delhi; Sharad Kumar Agarwal, professor of bridges at IRICEN; and Sandeep Sharma, chief bridge engineer at Northeast Frontier (NF) Railway.
The committee has also been given one month to submit its report of findings.
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