This is revealed in a report of the Standing Committee on Railway maintained in Parliament.Not only has the committee expressed this surprise,but it is also dangerous for rail passengers.
The committee has said in its report that rail network in India is 160 years old. Since then the railway bridges have been constructed to connect the network. Rail operations have been stopped on some of these, but there are still 37689 bridges,which are more than 100 years old.The number of such bridges is 37689, whereas the total number of total railway bridges is 1 lakh 47 thousand 523. That is, every third bridge is more than 100 years old.The committee said in the summary at the end of the report that when asked about the safety of old bridges,the Ministry replied that the safety of the bridge is taken care of,but we (the committee) suspect that the old bridges It is completely unsafe because in the last few years,the number of trains and speed has been increased and the weight of the train has increased,so it can be dangerous to run trains on these bridges.
When the committee asked the railway ministry whether the Railways was also constructing a new bridge,it was informed by the ministry that 8611 new bridges were built between 2015 and 2018 in the last three years because new lines have been laid and double them.Apart from this, 2347 old bridges have been rebuilt in these three years, while the proposal to reconstruct the 3017 bridge has also been approved.
