Rajnath Singh to open 100m steel arch Siyom Bridge in Arunachal Pradesh today

GUWAHATI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh will visit Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday morning to inaugurate a 100-metre bridge, which will open an alternative route to the India-China border.
The Siyom Bridge is one of the 28 projects completed by the Border Roads Organisation at a cost of Rs 724 crore to strengthen border infrastructure.
Singh, who arrived at the IAF base at Chabua in Assam’s Dibrugarh on Monday, will travel to Boleng in Arunachal’s Siang district on Tuesday. The defence minister will physically inaugurate the steel arch superstructure Siyom Bridge on the Along-Yingkiong Road, which will facilitate faster induction of troops, heavy equipment like howitzers and mechanised vehicles to forward areas of the Upper Siang district, Tuting and Gelling, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.
He will virtually inaugurate 27 other projects at other locations in Ladakh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. This will be Singh’s first visit to the frontier state after the December 9 clashes between the Army and Chinese PLA in the Yangtse sector in Tawang located west of the venue of Tuesday’s function.
SiyomTamed @BROindia is proud to present its Signature Bridge, a 100m long Steel Arch Siyom Bridge over Siyom River on Along-Yingkiong Road in Arunachal Pradesh constructed by Project Brahmank. The bridge will be dedicated to the Nation along with others,” BRO tweeted.
“@BROindia is proud to present its 28 infrastructure projects that have been completed at a cost of Rs 724.3 Cr. This will make it to 103 infrastructure projects completed by @BROindia in 2023 at a cost of Rs 2897 Cr. These 28 projects will be dedicated to the Nation by the Hon’ble Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh from Siyom Bridge site in Arunachal Pradesh at 11 AM on 03 Jan 2023,” the BRO’s tweet further read.