On record
A 44-year-old bridge inaugurated in 1982 by then-Chief Minister R. Gundu Rao collapsed on September 1, 2026 after years of visible deterioration, cutting off road connectivity to roughly 15 villages and disrupting school transport for hundreds of students in Chitradurga district.
The official record states: "Officials and residents attributed the failure to decades of inadequate maintenance, compounded by the previous year's heavy rains submerging the bridge and weakening its foundation through strong water currents."
“Forty-four years old, visibly failing for years, and fifteen villages cut off the morning it finally went.”— Blunderlust Editorial Desk
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“Forty-four years old, visibly deteriorating for years, and fifteen villages were cut off the morning it went.”
“School transport across the Vedavathi stopped overnight for hundreds of children with no alternative crossing.”
“The previous year's floods had submerged it and scoured the foundation, and nothing was done between then and now.”