KOLKATA: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) plans to take up repair work of the nearly 100-year-old Bagmari bridge over Circular canal on Maniktala main road which is an important connecting link between Kankurgachi and Maniktala.
Officials said that ther bridge length, including the approach ramps is about 350 meter. "The bridge will undergo overall normal repairs with plastering on the eroded spots of the wall, patch up of the concrete and road surface, repairing and installing new railings and other work followed which an overall structural assessment would could be done to check if the bridge needs to be further strengthened," said a KMDA official.
Officials said that the bridge was constructed during the British era by the then Kolkata Improvement Trust in 1926. It is a reinforced concrete bridge having a 42 meter span three hinged arch with about 12 meter of road width and three meter wide footpaths on both sides. The deck is supported on seven arch ribs bracing with each other. In the centre of the bridge span, the arch ribs merge with the roadway slabs. The bridge deck is supported on columns. The bridge has three ramps on each approach end.
