Atal Setu, Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Godavari Fourth Bridge... Let's acquaint you with the kilometres and kilometres of roads over water India possesses that are bridges.
Length: 22 km, including the approach roads
Completed: 2024
The Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, which includes the famous Atal Setu sea bridge (12th longest worldwide) connects Sewri, central Mumbai, with Navi Mumbai, spanning Mumbai Harbour.
Length: 9.15 km
Completed: May 2017
This bridge, also known as the Sadiya Bridge and Bhupen Hazarika Setu, is the link between Dhola, Tinsukia district, with Sadiya, in the eastern part of Assam, over the Lohit river, effectively reducing travel time between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
Length: 6.2 km
Completed: 2018
The bridge between Bomjir and Malek in Arunachal Pradesh, over the Dibang river, also called Talo, a tributary of the Brahmaputra that originates on the India-China border.
Length: 5.75 km
Completed: 1982, rehabilitation in 2022
The Mahatma Gandhi Setu is an important bridge spanning the holy Ganga. A crucial transport artery in Bihar, it is from Patna to Hajipur and vice versa. And is India's longest steel bridge.
Length: 5.6 km
Completed: 2009
The Bandra-Worli Sea Link, also known as the Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link, is a cable-stayed sea bridge connecting Worli with Bandra, ie effectively south Mumbai with northwest Mumbai.
Length: 4.5 km
Completed: 1997
The bridge spans the sacred Godavari river, between Rajahmundry and Kovvur.
Length: 4.94 km
Completed: 2018
Bogibeel Bridge, near Bogibeel Ghat, is a combined road and rail bridge crossing the mighty Brahmaputra and the bridge between the districts of Dibrugarh and Dhemaji in Assam.
Length: 4.7 km
Completed: 2001
The Vikramshila Setu spans the Ganga -- between Bhagalpur and Sultanganj.
Length: 4.62 km
Completed: 2011
Located in Kottayam district, the Vembanad Rail Bridge crosses tranquil Vembanad lake and joins up with the rest of Kerala's railway network.
Length: 4.5 km
Completed: 2016
This bridge across the Ganga between Digha and Sonepur, the site of the annual cattle fair, the biggest in Asia.