Vidarbha’s longest bridge, a 690m cable-stayed structure, just like the city’s Ram jhula, can come back au courant the backwaters of Gosikhurd dam at the picturesque location of Ambhora. most likely the first-of-its-kind within the country, the bridge can have a sky gallery atop it. alongside business potential, the bridge can give abundant required property between Nagpur and Bhandara districts. With Rs150 large integer approved by Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari, the state’s construction Department (PWD) has started execution of the project. PWD has appointed Pune-based T&T below restricted, that designed the bridge on Savitri watercourse at Mahad reportedly in record time, to construct the bridge at intervals 2 years. PWD chief engineer Ulhas Debadwar, superintending engineer Vidyadhar Sardeshmukh, and govt engineer Ajay Pohekar have planned the project.
it’ll raise the wonder of Ambhora, that could be a famed journey place with Chaityaneshwar knife mandir on a mound and confluence of 3 rivers — Wainganga, Kanhan and Nag. Sardeshmukh and Pohekar told TOI the sky gallery is forty meters on top of the bridge. “The bridge can have a path of 3 meters on both sides. there’ll be lifts furthermore as away within the middle of the bridge to travel up to the sky gallery. Picturesque backwaters, Wainganga watercourse alongside hillocks and temple is viewed from the sky gallery. MTDC has already started a luxurious resort during this space,” they aforesaid. The sky gallery is over three hundred sq m with a glass floor. The cable-stayed bridge is three.5 times longer than city’s Ram jhula, that is two hundred meters. Ram jhula is one span of the cable-stayed structure. The one at Ambhora can have six spans. The bridge can begin with the cable-stayed span of sixty five-meter, followed by four spans of a hundred and forty meters every, and finish once more with a span of sixty five-meter. Thus, six cable-stayed stretches are seen.
Sardeshmukh and Pohekar aforesaid, “The bridge can come back up over the backwaters of the dam, therefore, there’ll perpetually be water below it. it’s It is extremely deep here. Also, Wainganga river’s breadth is large here, because it is simply once confluence. Besides, rocky structure and made piers are terribly way below. Therefore, we tend to planned cable-stayed structure considering a business,” they aforesaid. This would be PWD’s 1st cable-stayed project. Another most vital role of the bridge is property between Nagpur and Bhandara districts. Pohekar aforesaid it’ll provide smart property between Kuhi and Umrer tehsils of the district, with Sakoli and Lakhandur tehsils of Bhandara. “PWD widened road from Chipli to Ambhora and work is projected from Chipli close to Kuhi to Panchgaon on Nagpur-Umred Road. Thus, there’ll be a 10m wide road from Nagpur-Umred Road to Ambhora. once crossing the bridge, the road can hook up with Kardha-Paoni Road, that could be an expressway. It connects with Bhandara-Raipur national main road once crossing Bhandara town. folks from Bhandara district are benefited if they’re going toward Umred, Wardha, Butibori or Chandrapur and the other way around,” he said. Also, folks progressing to Ambhora, Gosikhurd dam and also the journey centre at Paoni are benefited.
