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Building bridges across the Brahmaputra

We got to Bogibeel ghat, about an hour's run from Dibrugarh, the last half hour taken to negotiate a short stretch that is just sand, dust and stone with huge potholes created by the trucks and vehicles busy with building the approach road to the Bogibeel rail bridge. The bridge concept was launched in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's premiership but my guess is that it won't be ready until 2012-13.3:03 AM on May 28