Good news for NFR rail fans:
BOGIBEEL (ASSAM): bridge to open by the end of this year. three lane highway above and double rail line below it.
In a major boost to defence logistics along the border with China, India's longest road and railway bridge connecting Dibrugarh in Assam to Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh is likely to be inaugurated later this year
-All...
more... the civil work to be completed by July this year, electrical and signalling work to be finished by Spetember
-second longest in Asia, has three lane roads on top and double line rail below.
-32 metres above the water level of the Brahamaputra and on the 4.94 km long bridge and is fashioned on a bridge that links Sweden and Denmark.
-Will facilitate development in the northeast as well as part of a strategic move solving logistical issues for the armed forces stationed at the China border to get supplies from Tezpur and Arunachal
-Approved in 1996, construction started in 2002 and declared a national project in 2007.
Source : PTI