Saraighat Bridge
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Saraighat Bridge, Guwahati Overview
Saraighat Bridge is the first railway-cum-road bridge built over the Brahmaputra River in Guwahati. Construction began in 1958, and the bridge first opened to goods trucks in 1962, inaugurated by then Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, before opening to public traffic on 7th June 1963. The double-decker bridge has a road highway on top with a rail line below.
The bridge recently completed 50 years of its existence and a research study by a bunch of experts from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) suggest that the bridge is still good to go for a couple more years before it would need any kind of renovation. The 1.4 kms long bridge connects both banks of the Brahmaputra river in Saraighat, which is a small town famous for the huge war between Ahoms and Mughals. An adjacent three lane concrete bridge was also created and inaugurated in 2017.
