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STI Overbridge Waterlogging

Blunderlust rating★★★★★ 3.9 / 5 · 219 reviews⌖ STI Chowk overbridge, Steel City, RourkelaEntry #02 in Rourkela
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Built in 2019, this overbridge developed large craters and broken dividers within two years, turning into knee-deep artificial ponds during rain; on September 16, 2021 Congress activists released live fish onto the flooded bridge to protest the drainage failure.

The official record states: "Protesters alleged substandard construction and demanded action against the supervising consultancy and engineers; no civic body response was documented."

“A flyover so reliably flooded that activists released live fish on it. The fish did fine.”— Blunderlust Editorial Desk

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  • https://www.orissapost.com/water-logging-cong-releases-fish-on-overbridge-in-rourkela/

Visitor reviews Satire

“Protesters released live fish onto the flooded deck in 2021. The fish were entirely comfortable up there.”
VB V. Banerjee · Rourkela★★★★★
“Two years old and it already had craters, broken dividers and knee-deep water on it every time it rained.”
KP K. Pandey · Rourkela★★★★★
“Rode across STI Chowk in September and could not tell the bridge from the pond it becomes.”
JC J. Chauhan · Rourkela★★★★★
Blunderlust RecordBL/ROU/2019/FLY
Status
Still standing (barely): structurally deficient, floods every monsoon
Category
Flyover
State
Odisha
Year
2019
Cost to taxpayers
Not specified

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