PM opens Bogibeel Bridge, India’s longest

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.