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The costs of corruption
The photo, taken following the 1999 Izmit earthquake in Turkey, suggests that steel reinforcement in concrete columns and at junctions with floorslabs offered inadequate resistance to earthquake motion and to the load upon them. The collapsed floors remained largely intact. (Mehmet Celebi)
Blowing the whistle on corruption in construction: one man’s fatal struggle Raj Kamal Jha1 Satyendra Kumar Dubey came from a family struggling to make ends meet in a village in the impoverished eastern state of Bihar. The 31-year-old, who had trained as a civil engineer at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur, worked as
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