Kolia Bhomora Setu is a pre-stressed concrete road bridge over the Brahmaputra River near Tezpur in Assam (India). It is named after the Ahom General Kolia Bhomora Phukan.
This bridge connects Sonitpur on the north bank with Nagaon District on the south bank. The length of this bridge is 3015 meters.
The construction of the bridge took place from 1981 to 1987.
The river having a catchments area of 3.8 lakh km2 flows in
the most unpredictable manners, occupying 12 km to 16 km of space at
places and poses a challenge to the bridge engineers. Despite the
pioneering efforts of the Railways at SaraiGhat, the Northeast continued
to suffer from the long-felt lack of transportation network. Quarter of
a century later, INDIAN RAILWAYS have turned yet another dream into
reality. The 2nd Brahmaputra Bridge has greatly accelerate march of the
North eastern states towards 21st century.
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