SAIL supplies 35,400 tonnes for Bogibeel Bridge.

Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) has supplied around 35,400 tonnes of steel for the construction of Bogibeel Road-cum-Rail Bridge on the river Brahmaputra. This quantity is little more than 50 per cent of the total quantity of steel supplied for the bridge.

“SAIL has also supplied TMT rebars, plates and structural for this 4.94-km-long bridge, which has composite welded steel truss girders in its structures. Earlier, SAIL had supplied 90 per cent steel for the construction of the Dhola-Sadiyabridge, which is India’s longest bridge,” a company statement said. The 4.9-km-long bridge on the Brahmaputra river is Asia’s second longest rail-cum-road bridge. It has a serviceable period of 120 years.

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