SAIL steel for world’s tallest girder rail bridge
20 Jun 2018
Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) has supplied around 60,000 tonnes of steel material for the 111-km-long Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal new broad gauge project in Manipur for Northeast Frontier Railway.
SAIL has supplied TMT rebars and structurals along with HR plates and sheets, plate mill plates, for this project. SAIL has supplied the material made at its state-of-the-art new mills at Durgapur, IISCO, Rourkela and Bokaro plants.
The broad gauge railway project was taken up for construction in 2008 and was declared a National Project.
It involves the construction of an 111-km long broad gauge railway line which has nine stations at Dolakhal, Kaimai Road, Kambiron, Thingou, Khongsang, Noney Tupul, Haochang Road and Imphal, 148 bridges and 45 tunnels, of which tunnel No 12 is 11.55-km long, making it India’s longest tunnel.
The project is being developed in two sections. The first section involves the construction of 84 km of railway line connecting Jiribam to Tupul which is on the verge of completion.
The second section of 27 kms connecting Tupul to Imphal is expected to be completed by 2019.
Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has undertaken the construction of the project.
In addition to this, a bridge is being constructed near Noney, which will become the tallest girder rail bridge in the world. At 141 metres, the bridge over river Iring will be twice the height of the Qutub Minar.