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Bogibeel Bridge
Why is it in news?
- Prime Minister opened the Bogibeel bridge, country’s longest rail-road bridge in Assam’s Dibrugarh.
- The Prime Minister dedicated the 4.94-km-long double-decker bridge to the nation from the south bank of the river.
Benefits of Bridge
- Connectivity: Constructed for Double Line Broad Gauge Track and three-lane road, this bridge will be the lifeline of the north eastern part of the country and will facilitate connectivity between south bank of the Brahmaputra river in Assam’s Dibrugarh district with Silapathar in Dhemaji district, bordering Arunachal Pradesh.
- Strategic advantage: The biggest advantage of the bridge will be easy movement of troops from southern to northern bank. This means travelling to the farthest most point of India's border with China will be shortened by several hundred kilometres.
- Bogibeel Bridge Project was also the part of Assam Accord and was sanctioned in the year 1997-98.
Timeline
- The foundation stone of the Project was laid by the then prime minister H D Deve Gowda on January 22, 1997.
- However, work on the project commenced during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s regime on April 21, 2002.
- The bridge has a total length of 4.94 km (revised from earlier 4.31 km).
- The remote districts of Anjaw, Changlang, Lohit, Lower Dibang Valley, Dibang Valley and Tirap
- of Arunachal Pradesh will be greatly benefited by this bridge.
- The bridge will reduce the road distance from Dibrugarh, in Assam to Itanagar by 150 km and the railway travel distance between these two points will be reduced by 705 km.
Source
The HIndu