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Debt-laden infrastructure company IVRCL faced its biggest crisis when a flyover it was constructing in Kolkata collapsed on Thursday, claiming several lives. The company has not faced an accident of such magnitude in its 27-year history. It had been building the Vivekananda Road flyover in Kolkata for seven years. Though IVRCL's projects have exceeded execution time-lines, none matched the delay of this one.Promoted by E Sudhir Reddy in 1987, IVRCL started facing financial difficulties in 2012 over shrunken irrigation budgets and project delays.It ended up with debt of Rs 10,000 crore and accumulated losses of Rs 2,000 crore and went in for a corporate debt restructuring in April 2014. In November 2015, banks invoked strategic debt restructuring to recover their money and approved a resolution to acquire 50 per cent of the company's shares in an attempt to find a buyer. The consortium of lenders or the Joint Lender's Forum recently converted a part of their debt to equity and now hold