Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the New Pamban Bridge on the occasion of Ram Navami.
About New Pamban Bridge
- New Pamban Bridge is India’s first vertical-lift railway sea bridge.
- The bridge is 05 km long, featuring a unique 72-m vertical lift span for ship movement.
- It connects Rameswaram on Pamban Island to Mandapam on the mainland in Tamil Nadu.
- It will replace the iconic Pamban Bridge, India’s first sea bridge, which opened in 1914.
- The new pamban bridge is being built parallel to the old Pamban Bridge by Rail Vikas Nigam Limited.
Lapses Identified by the CRS
- The lift span girder was designed using foreign codes rather than RDSO.
- The standard procedure of forming a Technical Advisory Group for large infrastructure projects was bypassed.
- Welding of primary stressed members ( bottom and top chords) occurred at the site, violating the Welded Bridge Code (set of guidelines for the use of metal-arc welding in the construction of steel bridges).
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