On March 31, 2016, the 7-year-old under-construction Vivekananda Fly Over collapsed in the Girish Park area of Kolkata. The incident caused 27 lives and left 80 people significantly injured. The bridge had been under construction since 2009, amidst rising fatigue amongst the masses regarding the elongated delays in construction, the Chief Minister of the State, Mamata Banerjee announced the opening of the bridge by February 2016, despite 26 per cent of the construction pending even then. ‘Tech fault’ and ‘high-scale corruption’ were allegations raised by the opposition.