The New Narmada Bridge (or the 3rd Narmada Bridge) is an
extra dosed bridge, constructed at
Bharuch,
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. It is a long bridge, built over river
Narmada on
NH-8. The four-lane bridge is a part of larger project involving six laning of a section of
NH-8 between
Vadodara
Vadodara (), also known as Baroda, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Vadodara district and is situated on the banks of the Vishwamitri River, from the state capita ...
and
Surat. It runs parallel to Sardar Bridge. It is the
extradosed bridge
An extradosed bridge employs a structure that combines the main elements of both a prestressed box girder bridge and a cable-stayed bridge. The name comes from the word ''extrados'', the exterior or upper curve of an arch, and refers to how the " ...
with the longest spans in India, long.
The bridge was constructed by
Larsen & Toubro
Larsen & Toubro Ltd, commonly known as L&T, is an Indian multinational conglomerate company, with business interests in engineering, construction, manufacturing, technology, information technology and financial services, headquartered in Mumba ...
and Dywidag Systems International (DSI-Bridgecon). The estimated cost of bridge is . This bridge was inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
Narendra Damodardas Modi (; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament fro ...
on 7 March 2017.
A few months later in June 2017, the
Arrah–Chhapra Bridge 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.
See also
*
Golden Bridge
The Golden Bridge connects Ankleshwar to Bharuch in the Gujarat state of western India. It was built in 1881 by the British, who needed a bridge across the Narmada River to create better access to trade and administration officials in Bombay ...
, completed in 1881
*
Silver Jubilee Railway Bridge Bharuch, completed in 1935
References
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