Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday to inaugurate multiple projects, including the Chenab bridge, the world’s highest single-arch railway bridge yet. Taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the inauguration of the bridge will mark the successful completion of what has been billed as the biggest civil-engineering challenge by any railway project in India’s recent history.
Approved in 2003 and contracted in 2008, after much worries over its safety and stability, the single-arch bridge over River Chenab in J&K passed all its mandatory tests and is set to mark India on the railroad history after two decades of waiting. Here is all you need to know about India’s most recent feat in civil-engineering
World's highest Railway bridge over Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir. (Express photo by Gajendra Yadav )
It has taken enginners three years to build the arch of the bridge with the help of two mammoth cable cranes which had been installed on both banks of the Chenab. (Express Photo by Gajendra Yadav)
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