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PT Facts
PM opens Bogibeel Bridge, India’s longest
News:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated the strategically important Bogibeel bridge, India’s longest rail-road bridge over the Brahmaputra river at Bogibeel near Dibrugarh in Assam.
Facts:
- Bridge connects Dibrugarh district on the Brahmaputra river’s south bank in Assam to Dhemaji district on the north bank.
- The project was conceived by the Rail India Technical Economic Services in 1973
- Significance:
- Bogibeel Bridge also facilitates the movement of troops in a strategically sensitive region, was part of the Assam Accord of 1985 and was finally sanctioned in the year 1997-98
- Bridge will cater livelihoods of millions of people in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
- The bridge is expected to significantly enhance India’s defence capability by ensuring faster movement of troops and supplies to Arunachal Pradesh
- Connectivity to the farthest point of India’s border with China will be shortened by several hundred kilometers.
About Brahmaputra Flow:
- The Brahmaputra enters India in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, where it is called Siang.
- It makes a very rapid descent from its original height in Tibet, and finally appears in the plains, where it is called Dihang.
- It flows for about 35 km (22 mi) and is joined by the Dibang River and the Lohit River at the head of the Assam Valley.
- Below the Lohit, the river is called Brahmaputra and Burlung-Buthur by native Bodo tribal, it then enters the state of Assam.
