"We have checked the entire structure of Chingrighata Flyover today. The crack has been created on a side guard-wall under the railing. It's very common and quite natural too. The crack was created, might be due to weather-change, on the outside plaster on an expansion joint between two girders, not on the main structure of the flyover," one senior engineer of KMDA told IBNS.
"A very minimum repairing is required there. Don't be worried. There no possibility of Chingrighata Flyover's collapse," he further said.
Meanwhile, for checking up, traffic movement had been closed on the flyover for hours. According to the latest update came in, police lifted of the restrictions and traffic is normal on Chingrighata Flyover now.
Someone clicked an image of the crack on Wednesday and posted it on social networkinh site- Facebook. The photo became viral in few minutes and created tension.
Earlier on Mar 31, a portion of under-construction Vivekananda Flyover collapsed on a busy road in north Kolkata, killing at least 29 people and leaving several others injured. A busy flyover in Kolkata's Ultadanga collapsed at midnight in 2013, which injured a track driver.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
In image: The Facebook picture, which triggered a scare.
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