On record
A 40-year-old iron bridge carrying a drinking-water pipeline collapsed into the Damodar river on July 23, 2025, cutting off water supply to Mohishila Colony, Searsole, Benali and parts of Asansol, Raniganj and Jamuria, requiring emergency tanker deployment.
The official record states: "A local MLA attributed the collapse to "rampant illegal sand mining using heavy machinery" near the pipeline crossing, compounded by unscientific riverbed extraction and dam-discharge increases."
“Forty years old, carrying the water for three towns, and no one checked whether it still could.”— Blunderlust Editorial Desk
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Visitor reviews Satire
“A forty-year-old iron bridge was carrying the drinking water for three towns and nobody had checked whether it still could.”
“It went into the Damodar in July and Mohishila Colony met the water tankers the following morning.”
“The MLA blames illegal sand mining under the crossing. The mining is still there; the bridge is not.”