GUWAHATI: Prime minister
Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Dhola-Sadiya bridge on river
Brahmaputra
, which will be the country’s longest bridge, in
Tinsukia
district in
Assam on May 24 to mark
BJP’s first year in office in the state.
Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who met national security advisor
Ajit Doval in New Delhi said that the PMO has informed about the PM’s consent to visit the state and inaugurate the 9.15 km long bridge connecting Assam and
Arunachal Pradesh
.
The construction of the bridge, considered as a strategic link to eastern part of Arunachal Pradesh, began in 2011 at a sanctioned project cost of Rs 950 cr.
The bridge is 3.55 kilometres longer than the Bandra Worli sea link over the Mahim Bay in Mumbai, which is current the longest bridge in India.
Prabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is curren...
Read MorePrabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journalist reporting gamut of issues from India’s northeastern region and major developments in neighbouring countries like Myanmar, China, Bhutan and Bangladesh concerning India and northeastern region. He has been covering insurgency—internal and cross-border, politics, natural calamities, environment etc. He is a post-graduate in Geological Sciences from Gauhati University.
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