India has always had a dream of a great power, but its own economic and industrial foundation cannot support such ambition, so many slaps in the face have occurred. I have to say that the Bihar Bridge, which India spent 8 years to build for 2.6 billion rupees, collapsed one month after its completion. What is the reason behind it is rats? What is the real reason why the bridge collapsed in less than a month? Let’s take a look together.
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1, New infrastructure and the dream of a great power
Indian Prime Minister Modi not long ago proposed an ambitious plan. From July 2019 to March 2025, India will invest 100 trillion rupees in infrastructure construction. It mainly includes railway construction, highway construction and green energy construction. India is mainly a country that relies on domestic consumption to drive economic growth. If it wants to achieve manufacturing in India, India must find a way to transform into an outward-oriented economy . Therefore, further improving infrastructure and improving the standardization of export products has become what India wants to achieve now.
India's current economy has been in a downward state, but in the past few years, India's economy has grown rapidly due to investment in infrastructure construction. Therefore, India has been trying to find ways to speed up the implementation of this plan, hoping to stimulate demand and promote economic growth. However, this grand idea has been questioned.
Although India's infrastructure cannot be compared with China, India's infrastructure construction is still ranked among the top in developing countries. India's national highway mileage has increased from about 93,000 kilometers in 2014 to about 122,000 kilometers in 2018; the energy shortage has dropped from 4.2% in 2014 to 0.7% in 2018; the number of airports has reached 102 in 2018.
The basic framework for railway and highway construction in India has long been completed. In 2000, India began to implement a village-to-village project. Although there were more than 600,000 villages in India without roads in 2001, India has now achieved road access. India's railways are very busy every day. Before India's independence, the scale of the railway network had been roughly formed. Although the operating mileage of railways did not grow very quickly, electrification had been completed by 50%. Therefore, for India, what we need to do now is to upgrade infrastructure construction.
Also as a developing country, India is very jealous of the bird's nest built by China in recent years, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge . The name of China's infrastructure madman is stimulating India, and India is working hard to develop its own infrastructure construction. In 2012, the construction of the Bihar Bridge in India started, and this bridge had already attracted much attention when it was launched.
In order to build this bridge, the Indian government has invested more than 260 million rupees, equivalent to 250 million yuan. This huge Bihar Bridge finally took 8 years and was completed in June 2020. The Indian people are pleased with the birth of this bridge, but this bridge, which is called a "miracle" by India's Bihar Chief Minister Kurma, is really a miracle! collapsed because the bridge existed for less than a month.
2. The ideal is great, the reality is cruel
Bihar Bridge is 1,140 meters long. On the day of completion, India is jubilant, firecrackers are ringing, and the Indian people along the coast will bid farewell to the backward transportation and walk onto a happy bridge. The good times did not last long, and a flood washed away the happiness of the Indian people. On July 15, 2020, the bridge collapsed.
Most parts of India have a tropical monsoon climate, which causes India to be in abundant rain from June to October. According to the principle, India will inevitably consider climate when building this bridge. So why is this huge project, which is less than 29 days old, destroyed by a flood? The sudden collapse of the bridge shocked the Indian people first and then extremely angry.
Facing the collapsed bridge, the first explanation given by local officials in Bihar is that the flood is actually the culprit. But obviously how can this reason be accepted by the people? Bihar has always been plagued by floods. Those bridges that have been in disrepair may collapse due to the impact of heavy rainstorms in succession, but this bridge, which has been completed in less than a month, should not have been shattered by a flood. The Indian people are not fools either. This flood did not destroy the overwhelmed old bridges. How could this new bridge be destroyed? It must be for another reason.
Local Indian people rushed to the streets and asked the government to give a reasonable explanation. The Indian opposition party also seized this opportunity to mock: It was not done by the flood, so it was a rat again! India once built a dam in Jharkhand in the eastern part of the world. This dam stopped and was finally completed on August 28, 2019 after 42 years.
This dam was also built by India "spent huge money" from the initial Rs 120 crore to the end of investing nearly Rs 22 billion. However, the lifespan of this dam is even shorter. After the launch ceremony, it collapsed in less than 24 hours after it was put into use... The dam had a serious breach, and a large number of floods tilted down for a while. A good project that should have benefited the country and the people became a disaster.
Local officials in Jharkhand said that the mouse made holes in the non-cement concrete part of the embankment. The mouse hole was not discovered and reinforced in time, so the embankment eventually collapsed. This is really ridiculous, but the mouse has taken the blame more than this time. In Indian history, almost any project accident will be used as a shield for the mouse, and the mouse will almost become the scapegoat!
In fact, everyone knows that mice have no ability to break the dam above and bridge below. The Indian government just doesn't want to admit that what it built is actually a shoddy project. There are many factors involved in the tofu project. The 2.6 billion bridge collapsed in 29 days. The opposition leader exposed that behind the collapse of the bridge was actually a huge corruption.
The construction of infrastructure was originally intended to benefit the people, but in India, it has repeatedly become accidents that threaten the people. It is a pity that those Indian political parties have taken the safety of the people seriously for their own selfish interests and cut corners in engineering construction. A bridge that could have been remembered forever has turned into a tofu project that has been infamous for thousands of years.
3. Steady and steady is the hard truth
India project has frequent problems, and the reasons behind it are worth pondering. The reputation of China's infrastructure is definitely not false slogans, but a real desire to do practical things for the people. India is determined to compete with China in infrastructure, but it is still not up to date. In fact, India should really calm down and think about the future development of the country. The people of India have always hoped that the government could change their poor lives, but every accident occurred, it was eroding the trust of the people in the Indian people in the government.
The reason why China can now become an infrastructure maniac is because China seizes the opportunity of history and conducts reform and opening up in a timely manner. It is also because China has a group of great people. They do not for their own interests, but just to build the country better and better, and make the lives of the people happier and happier.
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