Residents of Buxar waited eleven years for their ₹26.4 crore railway overbridge. Traffic was suspended exactly 96 hours after it opened. Construction: ongoing.
The railway overbridge at Itarhi Gumti crossing in Buxar, Bihar had been pending for nearly eleven years before it finally opened to the public in early June 2026. Within 96 hours, the upper layer near Pier No. 5 subsided, forcing authorities to immediately suspend vehicular movement. Construction cost: ₹26.40 crore. Operational lifespan: four days. Local residents who had spent a decade petitioning for the structure moved quickly from celebration to demanding accountability, and corruption allegations emerged within hours of the closure. An inquiry was announced and repairs were ordered on a bridge that had barely cleared its inauguration. The ratio of build time to service time — 11 years to 96 hours — is the rare kind of engineering metric that no project report anticipated.