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araighat Bridge in state of Assam. The 4940.5m top level of road deck of the bridge
Guwahati was the first long bridge is the longest bridge suitably beyond the abutments
rail-cum-road bridge over of its kind in India which provides while the rail alignment continues
mighty Brahmaputra river connectivity to nearly five million in the same line and level.
Sin Assam. Although the people residing in Upper Assam and
first railway line in Assam came up Arunachal Pradesh. It also gives easy Location
in 1881, yet Brahmaputra was not and direct access to the upper Assam The Bogibeel Bridge, situated
bridged by the British. It was bridged from the rest of the country through 17km downstream of Dibrugarh and
by HCC by building the 1.3 km long the North bank, in contrast to the Dhemaji, spans the Brahmaputra
bridge at Saraighat near Guwahati. current route through Guwahati in river and connects the town of
This bridge was opened to traffic in the South bank which is long and Dibrugarh in the south to Dhemaji
April 1962 by then Prime Minister tortuous. Due to its location, the to the river’s north. The bridge
Jawaharlal Nehru. Recently, a new bridge is of strategic importance is located just over 20 km away
road bridge has been constructed at to India as it will significantly from the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh
Saraighat which 1.49km is long and enhance India’s ability to transport border and is thus expected to
was inaugurated in 2017. troops and supplies to its border in act as an alternative to the Kolia
Kolia Bhomora Setu at Tezpur Arunachal Pradesh. Bhomora Setu, Tezpur in providing
was the second bridge constructed HCC in joint venture with DSD connectivity to nearly five million
by HCC. This pre-stressed concrete Brouckenbau GmbH, Germany people residing in Upper Assam and
road bridge connects Sonitpuron and VNR Infrastructures Ltd Arunachal Pradesh
the north bank with Nagaon district received the order from Northeast Bogibeel is the fifth rail-road bridge
on the south bank. The length Frontier Railway to construct the on the Brahmaputra river in Assam.
of this bridge is 3015 m, and its superstructure of Bogibeel Rail-cum- Due to its location, the bridge has
construction went on from 1981 to road Bridge in November 2011. strategic importance to India as it
1987. Bogibeel Rail-cum-road Bridge is a significantly enhances India’s ability
double decked bridge having two to transport troops and supplies to
Bogibeel Bridge railway tracks on the lower deck its border with Tibet in Arunachal
Bogibeel Bridge is a combined and a three-lane road on the upper Pradesh. Being located in an area
road and rail bridge in the Dibrugarh deck flanked by footpaths on each of intense rainfall, construction has
district of the North Eastern Indian side. Highway alignment meets the been significantly challenges.

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