Indian has been constructing the world's highest railway bridge over which river?
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India has been constructing the world's highest railway bridge over Chenab river.
More about Chenab bridge:
• Chenab bridge is a railway arch bridge between Bakkal and Kauri in Jammu and Kashmir.
• This bridge is made up of steel, concrete and archs.
• The length of this bridge is more than 1.3 kms and height is about 359 metres above the river bed.
• This construction project was taken up by the Afcons Infrastructure Limited.
• Indian Railways is constructing this bridge as a part of Udhampur Srinagar Baramulla rail link project.
• The design of the bridge was approved in 2009 after being rejected in 2008.
• However, the decision for the construction of this arch bridge was declared in 2017.
• And the construction of this bridge is scheduled to be completed by December 2021.
Indian has been constructing the world's highest railway bridge over which river?
Indian has been constructing the world's highest railway bridge over Chenab river.
More information about Chenab river:-
- Chenab River (River in Asia)
- Bridges: Chenab Rail Bridge, Chiniot Bridge
- Flows through (areas in India) Chamba-Kishtwar-Thathri-Doda-Ramban-Akhnoor
- Flows through (areas in Pakistan): Punjab-Uch
- Country- India, Pakistan
Discharge
• location- Marala Headworks
• average- 977.3 m3/s (34,510 cu ft/s)
• minimum- 310.53 m3/s (10,966 cu ft/s)
• maximum- 31,148.53 m3/s (1,100,000 cu ft/s)
Rivers system- Indus river
Tributaries
• left- Tawi River
• right- Marusadar River
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