The Karnataka government has constituted four committees headed by IAS officers to investigate the alleged irregularities that have taken place in the Bengaluru metropolitan municipal corporation during BJP.
Mysore/Mysuru: The world’s tallest pier bridge in
Manipur is an engineering marvel. The bridge across river Ijai near Noney between Jiribam and Imphal in Manipur has the tallest pier height of 141 metres. It surpasses the existing record of 139 metres of Mala-Rijeka viaduct, Montenegro in Europe.
The bridge is a part of Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal new broad gauge line project (111 km) and the total length of the bridge is 703 metres. The piers of the bridge were constructed using hydraulic augers and they needed specially designed ‘slip-form technique’ to ensure efficient and continual construction, observed Saibaba Ankala, Chief Engineer, Indian Railways.
He was delivering the keynote address on ‘Challenges in Design and Construction of World’s Tallest Bridge in India’ after inaugurating the RACE 21 Seminar a biennial event organised by the Mysore Centre of Association of Consulting Civil Engineers, India (ACCE (I) at the MBCT Auditorium, Akkamahadevi Road in city r