Chandigarh: Rajya Sabha member from Haryana Kartikeya Sharma on Friday introduced the Critical Infrastructure (Resilience, Protection and Accountability) Bill, 2026, in Rajya Sabha.According to information, the Bill aims to seek criminal accountability for infrastructure failures causing loss of life. Sharma said the Bill was anchored in a clear concern – repeated failures of public infrastructure where lives were lost and services collapsed, yet responsibility was diffused across contracts, consultants, and corporate layers, leaving citizens without justice and accountability without consequence.
The legislation sought to correct this imbalance by placing responsibility squarely on those who design, build, operate, and maintain critical infrastructure. “The proposed law establishes a structured framework to identify and classify critical infrastructure of national, economic, and life-critical importance, including dams, expressways, power grids, ports, urban transit systems, and strategic assets,” the MP said, adding the Bill recognised that when such infrastructure fails due to poor design, substandard construction, inferior materials, or negligence, the outcome is not merely a contractual breach, but a failure of public trust.The proposal also advocated that every physical critical infrastructure asset must have a functional digital twin to enable real-time structural health monitoring, stress testing, and predictive maintenance.MSID:: 127988833 413 |
