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A video of people staring at a caved-in approach road that has become untraversable is going viral with claims that it is on the Bundelkand Expressway. Read on to find more.
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India Today Fact Check
This video shows the road cave-in reported on Kaliasot bridge in Madhya Pradesh. However, parts of the Bundelkhand Expressway were indeed damaged within a week of its inauguration due to heavy rains.
Hardly a week has passed after the much-hyped Bundelkhand Expressway, which passes through seven districts of Uttar Pradesh, was opened to public. Sadly, the four-lane expressway has already made news for the wrong reason. The iconic 296-km stretch expressway got damaged in heavy rains near Jalaun, not long after it was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi on July 16.
Now, a video has gone viral on social media as that of the damaged Bundelkhand Expressway. It shows people staring at a caved-in approach road that has become untraversable.
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India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that the claim is misleading. This video is from Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district.
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A reverse search of the video's keyframes showed that the screenshots from the same footage were carried in an Aaj Tak report published on 25 July 2022.
As per this report, the video is from Kaliasot bridge in Mandideep, Madhya Pradesh. The bridge is part of NH 46 and a 45-km-stretch of road that has been built less than a year ago by CDS infra at an estimated cost of a little over Rs 500 crore. Thankfully, no travellers were hurt in the cave-in.
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The YouTube channel of Economic Times published a video similar to the viral one on July 25. The caption read, “Madhya Pradesh: Road caves in Bhopal due to heavy rainfall in the city”
A video story by NDTV that shows the wide cracks developed on the 296km long Bundelkhand Expressway can be seen below.
Thus, it is clear that the viral video is not from the damaged parts of UP's Bundelkhand Expressway. It shows a road cave-in from Madhya Pradesh's Mandideep.
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