Rajnath to open 100m steel arch Siyom Bridge in Arunachal 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.