A two-lane Jaiswal bridge over the Chenab river in Ramban district along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway has been completed, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on June 7, reiterating his commitment to provide exceptional highway infrastructure in the Union Territory.
Earlier, the bridge missed two back-to-back deadlines between March and April but its completion came just a few weeks before the start of the two-month-long annual pilgrimage to the 3,880-metre high holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas.
"In Jammu and Kashmir, we have completed the construction of a two-lane Jaiswal Bridge over River Chenab on the Udhampur-Ramban section of NH-44. This meticulously designed Balanced Cantilever bridge spans 118 meters and has been built at a cost of ₹20 crore," Mr. Gadkari, the Road Transport and Highways minister, said in a tweet.
