Bogibeel Rail-cum-Road Bridge

With a width ranging from 1.2 km to 18 km, the Brahmaputra river has been bridged four times in the past. HCC holds a distinction of building two of these bridges and has recently completed construction of the 5th bridge at Bogibeel, near Dibrugarh in Assam.

The Mighty Brahmaputra

There are a lot of legends and prophesies floating with the current of the mighty Brahmaputra River as it tracks its course from Tibet to Bangladesh, roaring down through narrow chasms and gobbling up land in its pursuit to reach the sea. A river as wide as an ocean, blood red with stories of sacrifice and patricide, unusually for a river it is male in its aspect, and unusually for India, it is not a holy river but often referred to as the Old Man River.

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