Mumbai: Three months after stampede, foot overbridge at Elphinstone Road railway station widened

Work on construction of two more foot overbridges, one by the Western Railways and another by the Army, is also underway.

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· Jan 02, 2018 · 11:26 am

Army says the foot overbridges it will build at 3 Mumbai stations are a temporary solution

The structures will help ease off only 20% of the footfall at these stations, Brigadier Dhiraj Mohan of the Bombay Engineer Group and Centre said.

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· Nov 03, 2017 · 07:19 pm

Army will reconstruct Elphinstone foot overbridge by January 31, says CM Devendra Fadnavis

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said this is probably the first time the Army has been tasked with ‘civil work’.

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· Oct 31, 2017 · 11:49 am

Railways forms panel to investigate delay in issuing tender for new Elphinstone Road foot overbridge

The committee is expected to submit its report within three months.

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· Oct 11, 2017 · 06:18 pm

Mumbai: Rain, panic and confusion led to Elphinstone stampede, says Western Railways report

The investigation has cleared the railway authorities and said that they cannot be held responsible for the incident in which 23 people died.

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· Oct 11, 2017 · 01:53 pm

Mumbai stampede: Our next protest won’t be peaceful, says Raj Thackeray after MNS march

Mumbai Police registered a case against him for conducting the march even after being denied permission.

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· Oct 05, 2017 · 02:36 pm

Mumbai stampede: Three petitions seek action against Railways

The September 29 incident on Elphinstone Road railway station overbridge had claimed 23 lives.

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· Oct 03, 2017 · 07:40 pm

Mumbai: Tender for new foot overbridge at Elphinstone was put out hours after stampede, says report

Railway officials have said that it was merely a coincidence and that the tender was ready about a week earlier.

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· Oct 01, 2017 · 11:04 am

Shiv Sena workers attack doctor after hospital staff inscribe numbers on Mumbai stampede victims

Photos of the victims with numbers on their foreheads were put up to expedite the process of identification, KEM hospital said.

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· Sep 30, 2017 · 07:37 pm

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal orders officials to spend ‘whatever is necessary’ to improve safety

After the Mumbai stampede, the minister also said that additional escalators had been sanctioned for crowded stations in Mumbai.

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· Sep 30, 2017 · 04:09 pm