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India
Wire & Cable ASIA – November/December 2013
bigstockphoto.com – photographers – Angelika Smile and Pokaz
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.
India
❍ The latest Ravi bridge. Photograph copyright of
Vishavsathali Basohli -
New cable-stayed
bridge over the
River Ravi