India, June 17 -- The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will soon begin strengthening work of around 60 bridges across the city, said officials on Monday.

Bridge strengthening involves reinforcing existing bridges to improve their structural integrity and capacity, often to meet updated load requirements or repair damage.

The PMC had already done the safety audit of the 98 bridges which include bridges on all the rivers, flyovers and railway over bridges in the city. Of the 98 bridges, strengthening work on 38 bridges has been completed in the first phase.

The move comes after four people died and 51 were injured when an old narrow bridge over the River Indrayani near Talegaon in Pune district.

Naval Kishore Ram, PMC commissioner, said...