Bogibeel Rail cum Road Bridge (Connects Chaulkhowa Rly Station in Assam with Sisibargaon-Siripani in Ar Pradesh

India / Assam / Barbari /
 railway bridge, road bridge
Inaugurated by PM Modiji on 25 Dec 2018
Bogibeel bridge in Assam, coming up across river Brahmaputra, is touted to be India's longest rail-road bridge, once completed in 2016. The bridge will be a double-deck bridge with a two-line railway track on the lower deck and a three-lane road on the upper. The approximate cost of the project is in the range of Rs 5,000 crore (Dec 2013 estimate). The bridge is meant to connect Dibrugarh in the south to Lakhimpur in the north; the rail link will join Chaulkhowa station and Sisibargaon-Siripani located on the river’s opposite banks.
Also see www.bogibeelbridge.com/default.aspx.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogibeel_Bridge
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Coordinates:   27°24'41"N   94°45'23"E

Comments

  • The mega two-tier Bogibeel bridge is the fourth to be constructed under the National Rail Vikas Yojana and also the fourth to be built on the river Brahmaputra in India. The bridge is meant to connect Dibrugarh in the south to Lakhimpur in the north the rail link willjoin Chaulkhowa station and Sisibargaon-Siripani located on the river’s opposite banks. The construction is expected to be completed by 2009. The bridge will fulfil a long-felt need of the people of Upper Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.The Railway Ministry has set the year 2008-2009 as the target for the completion of the Rs 1,767 crore Bogibeel rail-cum-road bridge.The Bogibeel bridge, which will perhaps be the longest railway bridge in the country is to cost Rs.1500 crore and the allocation for it during 2002-03 was Rs. 40 crore. Bogibeel incidentally will be the fourth bridge across the "unbridgeable" Brahmaputra river.
  • If there are four bridges (the fifth one will be near Dumduma) how can the Mighty Brahmaputra be unbridgeable? It is not.
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