Prime Minister Narendra Modi on
December 25, 2018 inaugurated India's longest rail-road bridge ‘Bogibeel
Bridge’ over the Brahmaputra River in Assam to boost defence along the border
with China.
This 4.94 kilometre long bridge
over the Brahmaputra river took nearly two decades and over Rs 5900 crore to
get completed.
The bridge was inaugurated on
the birth anniversary of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, under whose government
the work for the bridge began in 2002.
Located just over 20 kilometres
from the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border, the Bogibeel Bridge will connect the
south bank of the Brahmaputra river in Assam's Dibrugarh district with
Silapathar in Dhemaji district, bordering Arunachal Pradesh, making travel to
Pasighat easier.
The double-decker Bogibeel
bridge has two railway lines on the lower deck and a three-lane road on the
upper deck.
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