Media Eye News Bureau: A new Foot Over Bridge (FOB) which was constructed by the Indian Army is now open for the public five months after 23 people died in a stampede at Elphinstone Road railway station.
FOBs at Currey Road and Ambivli stations on Central Railway were inaugurated in the presence of Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre, and Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis as well.
Goyal and Fadnavis thanked the army for its contribution and completion of the FOBs.
The bridge at Elphinstone Road station is 70-metre-long. The FOB at Currey Road station is 30 metres in length and the one in Ambivli is 20-metre-long.
Speaking on the same, Fadnavis said, “Some Mumbaikars lost life in the tragedy (stampede) in 2017. To prevent such unfortunate incidents, our city (BJP) chief Ashish Shelar had requested defence minister to build the FOBs with the expertise of the army, which was accepted and on Tuesday, the FOBs have been thrown open.”
Further Railway Minister Piyush Goyal added, “Since October, 2017, when the army was roped in to construct the three FOBs, different departments of Railways have completed the construction of 17 more such FOBs at different stations and the work of building 22 more FOBs is underway, which will be completed by June 2018.”
