{"id":41778,"date":"2014-05-14T00:09:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T19:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=41778"},"modified":"2014-05-14T00:09:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T19:09:47","slug":"hunza-fact-finding-committee-formed-investigate-bridge-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2014\/05\/14\/hunza-fact-finding-committee-formed-investigate-bridge-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunza: Fact finding committee formed to investigate bridge collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The collapsed bridge has been under construction since 2006. Photo: Amjad Hussain Barcha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hunza, May 13:<\/strong>\u00a0The Chief Secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan, Sikandar Sultan Raja, has formed a three-member fact finding committeeto investigate the collapse of the three girders of the RCC bridge on Tuesday. The committee has been directed to submit its report by Wednesday night (today).<\/p>\n

The committee has been tasked to study the design, quality of materials and other construction aspects of the project which was being implemented by a notorious firm called Five Star Construction Company. The company has a history of getting contracts for mega projects and leaving them incomplete for several years, while the cost of construction keeps rising. The Committee has also been asked to explain the causes of the collapse and identify the factors or persons responsible for it.<\/p>\n

The Khizarbad-Sikandarabad bridge project had been started in 2006 at the estimated cost of around 71 million rupees.\u00a0Due to unexplained delays in the construction, the cost of the bridge had risen to around 86 million rupees in 2011 and the project was still incomplete.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, three of the girders constructed in January this year collapsed from the the beams and fell in the Hunza River, wasting millions of rupees and precious time, while the communities of Hussainabad, Mayun and Khizarbad continue to suffer due to lack of road and bridge.<\/p>\n

The Police have, reportedly, not registered a case against the contractor despite of orders issued by the Chief Minister, Syed Mehdi Shah.<\/p>\n

The committee comprises of four members including SE Basharat, having Engineer Taj, Engineer Ali Muzaffar and Assistant Commissioner of Hunza as its members.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hunza, May 13:\u00a0The Chief Secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan, Sikandar Sultan Raja, has formed a three-member fact finding committeeto investigate the collapse of the three girders of the RCC bridge on Tuesday. The committee has been directed to submit its report by Wednesday night (today). The committee has been tasked to study the design, quality of materials …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4682],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"better_featured_image":{"id":41779,"alt_text":"","caption":"The collapsed bridge has been under construction since 2006 ","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":640,"height":480,"file":"2014\/05\/Photo-Ausaf.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Photo-Ausaf-260x250.jpg","width":260,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Photo-Ausaf.jpg?resize=260%2C250&ssl=1"},"medium":{"file":"Photo-Ausaf-450x337.jpg","width":450,"height":337,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Photo-Ausaf.jpg?fit=450%2C337&ssl=1"},"large":{"file":"Photo-Ausaf-600x450.jpg","width":600,"height":450,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Photo-Ausaf.jpg?fit=600%2C450&ssl=1"},"150x150":{"file":"Photo-Ausaf-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Photo-Ausaf-150x150.jpg"},"120x85":{"file":"Photo-Ausaf-120x85.jpg","width":120,"height":85,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Photo-Ausaf-120x85.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"Photo-Ausaf-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Photo-Ausaf-415x260.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":0,"credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":0,"copyright":"","focal_length":0,"iso":0,"shutter_speed":0,"title":""}},"post":41778,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Photo-Ausaf.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Photo-Ausaf.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41781,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41778\/revisions\/41781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}