The New Narmada Bridge (or the 3rd Narmada Bridge) is an extra dosed bridge, constructed at

Bharuch Bharuch (), formerly known as Broach, is a city at the mouth of the river Narmada in Gujarat in western India. Bharuch is the administrative headquarters of Bharuch District. The city of Bharuch and surroundings have been settled since tim ...

, India. It is a long bridge, built over river Narmada on

NH-8 National Highway 8 (NH 8) is a 4-lane (6-lane in most parts) National Highway in India. According to estimates, it is the busiest highway in the subcontinent, as it connects the national capital Delhi to the financial capital Mumbai, as well ...

. The four-lane bridge is a part of larger project involving six laning of a section of

between Vadodara and

Surat Surat is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The word Surat literally means ''face'' in Gujarati and Hindi. Located on the banks of the river Tapti near its confluence with the Arabian Sea, it used to be a large seaport. It is now ...

. It runs parallel to Sardar Bridge. It is the extradosed bridge with the longest spans in India, long. The bridge was constructed by Larsen & Toubro and Dywidag Systems International (DSI-Bridgecon). The estimated cost of bridge is . This bridge was inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 7 March 2017. A few months later in June 2017, the

Arrah–Chhapra Bridge Arrah–Chhapra Bridge ( bho, आरा-छपरा पुल) or Veer Kunwar Singh Setu ( bho, वीर कुँवर सिंह सेतु) is the longest multi-span extradosed bridge in the world with a main bridge length of . The b ...

opened and became the longest multi-span extradosed bridge in the world, with a main bridge length of . Even so, the 3rd Narmada Bridge remains the extradosed bridge with the longest spans in India.

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Bridges in Gujarat Bridges completed in 2016 Transport in Ankleshwar Transport in Bharuch Cable-stayed bridges in India Bridges over the Narmada River {{India-bridge-struct-stub

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