General Information
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Road bridge |
|---|---|
| Structure: |
Haunched girder bridge Box girder bridge |
| Material: |
Prestressed concrete bridge |
Location
Technical Information
Dimensions
| width | 24 m | |
| total length | 5 575 m | |
| span lengths | 70.75 m - 43 x 125 m - 70.75 m | |
| number of spans | 45 | |
| number of lanes | 4 |
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Bakhtiyarpur–Tajpur Bridge (Hindi: बख्तियारपुर-ताजपुर सेतु), currently under construction, will span the river Ganges, connecting Bakhtiyarpur in Patna and Tajpur in Samastipur in the Indian state of Bihar. Upon completion in Dec 2020, the bridge will provide an easy roadway link between the northern and southern parts of Bihar.
The project
Current chief minister Nitish Kumar inaugurated the construction of the 5.575-kilometre-long (3.464 mi) bridge in June, 2011. Upon completion in Dec 2020, the bridge will reduce the load on Mahatma Gandhi Setu and also reduce the traffic in the capital city of Patna.
A road bridge parallel to the existing rail and road bridge, Rajendra Setu, has also been planned.
The bridge will also require construction of 45.393 km of approach roads on both ends of the bridge.
The total cost of the project is estimated at Rs 1602.74 crore, out of which Rs 100 crores will be spent on acquiring land. At first, Rs 917.74 crore is to be invested by Navayuga Engineering Company Limited (NECL) as a viability gap fund on a PPP basis. Rs 277.50 crore is to be invested by the Centre, and Rs 307.50 crore by the state government. The Bihar government would also bear the cost of acquiring land. NECL, a Hyderabad-based firm, was selected through competitive bidding.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Bakhtiyarpur–Tajpur Bridge" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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20070515 - Published on:
21/01/2016 - Last updated on:
26/10/2016
