Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Bogibeel bridge in Assam, Asia’s second longest rail-cum-road bridge.
The 4.9 km-long Bogibeel bridge reduces travel time from Assam to Arunachal Pradesh to four hours and will cut out the detour of over 170 km via Tinsukia.
It will also reduce Delhi to Dibrugarh train-travel time by about three hours to 34 hours as against 37 hours presently.
The bridge on the Bramhaputra river is India’s only fully welded bridge for which european codes and welding standards were adhered to for the first time in the country.
The bridge, constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 5,900 crore, has a “serviceable period of around 120 years”.
