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A more elegant aesthetic appearance than conventional beam bridges. [43] The first major extradosed bridge built in India is the Second Vivekananda Bridge between Howrah and Kolkata. It has 8 pylons and a suspended length of 880 m (2,890 ft), which was among the longest in its category at the time.
Lakshman Jhula Bridge First Jeepable Suspension Bridge of U.P. Span - 450 feet Carriage Way - 6 feet This bridge was constructed by U.P.P.W.D. during 1927-1929. It replaces the old bridge of 284 feet span which was washed away by great floods of October, 1924. This was opened to traffic on 11 April 1930. Officers / Officials responsible include: 1.
This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India. Also see the list of governors-general of India, list of prime ministers of India and list of years in India.
The Bogibeel Bridge is a combined road and rail bridge over the Brahmaputra River in the northeastern Indian state of Assam between Dhemaji district and Dibrugarh district, [1] which was started in the year 2002 and took a total of 200 months(16 years and 8 months) to complete, Bogibeel river bridge is the longest rail-cum-road bridge in India, measuring 4.94 kilometres over the Brahmaputra ...
A Bailey bridge is a type of portable, pre-fabricated, truss bridge. It was developed in 1940–1941 by the British for military use during the Second World War and saw extensive use by British, Canadian and American military engineering units. A Bailey bridge has the advantages of requiring no special tools or heavy equipment to assemble.
The Howrah Bridge is a balanced steel bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Commissioned in 1943, [ 9 ] [ 11 ] the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking the both sides of cities of Kolkata.
The bridge is the most expensive in Goan history. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] On 20 March 2018, the Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways , Nitin Gadkari , said that the central government would bear 50 percent of the bridge's cost, which is ₹ 4 billion (US$46 million) and an additional ₹ 500 million (US$5.8 million) for the road connecting the ...
Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge: Mahanadi River: 2.1 2008- Rail Odisha: Cuttack [26] 32 Pamban Bridge: Palk Strait: 2.07 1913- Rail Tamil Nadu: Mandapam-Rameswaram [27] 33 Sharavati Bridge: Sharavathi River: 2.06 1994 Rail Karnataka: Honnavar-Kasarkoda [10] 34 Baluaha Ghat Bridge Kosi River: 2.05 2015- Road Bihar: Baluaha Ghat-Gandaul [28] 35 Arwal ...