SAIL supplied 30,000 tonnes of steel to country’s longest bridge

29 May 2017

Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) supplied most of the steel that went into construction of the country’s longest bridge ‘Dhola-Sadiya’ built on river Lohit in Assam. The bridge, a key infrastructure project will connect the states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh have been inaugurated by the Prime Minster on Friday. The construction of the 9.15-km-long bridge began in 2011 under public private partnership. This bridge is 3.55 kilometers longer than Mumbai’s Bandra-Worli Sea Link.

SAIL has supplied around 90% or around 30,000 tonnes of steel, including TMT, Structural and Plates for the bridge. The product mix offered by SAIL was one of the major criteria for selection of the company for this project.

SAIL has identified specific focus areas in the North eastern region for increasing its presence and market share and has adopted a structured approach to widen its footprints. Supplying steel to remote areas of NE, tapping the high potential rural sector of the region, exploring the government’s thrust to improve the nation’s connectivity with North-east – have been identified as priority areas by the company.

The state owned steel major is already supplying steel for several key infrastructure projects in country’s north-eastern region. Apart from the Dhola-Sadiya bridge, SAIL steel has also been used for constructing the Bogibeel Rail-cum-Road bridge, several power plants including 750 MW power plant of NTPC & 600 MW Kameng Hydro-electric project, Trans Arunachal highway etc.

Source – ET