Once famous for its infrastructure such as sprawling highways and road networks connected to bridges and flyovers for seamless traffic movements, Gujarat in recent months has got bad press for the collapse of newly built bridges.
Recently, when the State was under a monsoon spell, the videos of cracks in a newly constructed bridge in Surat inaugurated by the Chief Minister, went viral on social media with netizens calling it the “real Gujarat Model.”
“This is the result of institutionalised corruption in awarding infrastructure contracts in Gujarat,” the Aam Aadmi Party said in a release, adding that the Surat bridge, built at a cost of ₹118 crore, started developing cracks within months.
