90 DEGREES OF REPARATION

The public works wing gets a public hanging, but MP's jagged flyovers are only symptoms of a systemic skew

- Rahul Noronha

FOR A FEW WEEKS NOW, Bhopal has been famous on social media for a flyover in the city's Aishbagh area: local wits have dubbed it the 'Ninety Degree Bridge', owing to a sharp turn it takes in mid-flight. Public censure effectively grounded seven engineers, including two chief engineers, of the Public Works Department (PWD). As the negative portrayals of the department piled up, with incompetence and dishonesty becoming buzzwords, the state government was forced to order a probe and eventually suspend the said officials.