{"id":286552,"date":"2018-05-10T11:27:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T05:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286552"},"modified":"2018-05-10T11:27:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T05:57:46","slug":"286552","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/286552\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s longest rail-road bridge to be inaugurated on Brahmaputra this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/T330_217761_Untitled-30.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-286553 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/T330_217761_Untitled-30-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"T330_217761_Untitled-30\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-id=\"286553\" \/><\/a>India&#8217;s longest road and railway bridge,\u00a0\u00a0Bogibeel bridge which will be connecting Dibrugarh in Assam to Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh\u00a0is likely to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi by the end of this year.<br \/>\nThe project which missed the deadlines quite a number of times\u00a0has been under construction since 2002 and was originally scheduled to be inaugurated in 2009.<br \/>\nThe cost of the project reportedly shot up from Rs 1,700 crore to Rs 6,000 crore.<br \/>\nOnce operational, the bridge would considerably reduce the travel time between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.<br \/>\nThe bridge is the second longest in Asia.<br \/>\nIt is 32 metres above the water level of the Brahamaputra\u00a0and has\u00a0three-lane roads on top and double line rail below, fashioned on a bridge that links Sweden and Denmark.<br \/>\nThe foundation stone of the Bogibeel bridge was laid by former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.<br \/>\nApart from being a\u00a0symbol of development in the northeast, the bridge is also seen as a\u00a0 strategic move solving logistical issues for the armed forces stationed at the China border to get supplies from Tezpur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s longest road and railway bridge,\u00a0\u00a0Bogibeel bridge which will be connecting Dibrugarh in Assam to Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh\u00a0is likely to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi by the end of this year. The project which missed the deadlines quite a number of times\u00a0has been under construction since 2002 and was originally scheduled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":286553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,53],"tags":[1417,1418,1419,1420,1421,1422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}