WCA November 2013

India India

bigstockphoto.com – photographers – Angelika Smile and Pokaz

New cable-stayed bridge over the River Ravi

IT has been confirmed that the Border Roads Organisation is to commission a cable-stayed bridge over the River Ravi in the Basholi area of Jammu and Kashmir, scheduled for completion by September 2014. The Ravi Bridge will be a 592m-long cable-stayed bridge over two pylons. “This bridge will be the first bridge of its kind in north India, and the third such bridge in India after Hooghly and Rajeev Gandhi sea link in Mumbai. “It will open up an alternate route to the national highway 1A, and to Kashmir valley via Basholi, Bani, Bhaderwah, Kishtwar, Chhatroo and Anantnag area,” a defence spokesman said in a statement.

❍ The latest Ravi bridge. Photograph copyright of Vishavsathali Basohli - www.skyscrapercity.com

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