Here is a list of significant construction-related accidents in the South Asian nation.
June 2014
-- An 11-storey apartment tower under construction on the outskirts of the southern city of Chennai crashes down following heavy rains. The accident kills 61 people, mainly labourers.
September 2013
-- Some 60 people are crushed to death when a five-storey building listed as needing urgent repairs collapses in India's financial hub Mumbai.
April 2013
-- An illegal, partially built apartment block collapses on the outskirts of Mumbai, killing 74, many of them children.
November 2010
-- A residential block collapses in New Delhi, killing 69. Blame centres on poor construction, waterlogging from the nearby Yamuna river and extra storeys being added illegally to the structure.
September 2009
-- A giant chimney at a power plant in central India crashes down in bad weather, killing 41 people. It was being built by a Chinese firm for Balco, part of London-listed resources giant Vedanta.
December 2006
-- An arch of a 140-year-old bridge falls onto an inter-city passenger train in Bhagalpur in India's Bihar state, killing 34 people.
September 2006
-- Some 50 coal miners die after a mine operated by state-run Bharat Coking Coal collapses in eastern Jharkhand state, following an explosion.
August 2003
-- An explosion thought to be caused by a compressor-boiler system destroys a building housing a small factory in western Gujarat state, killing 43.
June 2001
-- A 120-year-old bridge gives way, causing a train to fall into the Kadalundi river in the southern state of Kerala, leading to 59 deaths.