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The bridge is 4.94 km long. “The PM will inaugurate the bridge on December 25 which is also marked by the government as Good Governance Day,” the official told.
While former prime minister H D Deve Gowda laid the foundation stone for the Bogibeel bridge in January 1997, the work started only in April 2002 when former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee inaugurated the construction.
With several deadlines having been missed over the past 16 years, the first freight train ran on it on December 3.
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India and China share a nearly 4,000 km border.