There are 23 bridges on National Highways which are over 100 years old, out of which 2 bridges at Km 143.800 on NH-19 in the State of Bihar and at Km 266.370 on NH-228 in the State of Gujarat require rehabilitation and major maintenance and other bridges require only minor and routine maintenance.

As per the condition survey conducted till date various defects and distress has been noticed in several bridges. The State wise number of 6716 such bridges requiring minor, major repair and rehabilitation are as follows:-

 

S.No.	Name of State	Number of Bridges
1	Jammu & Kashmir	156
	Himachal Pradesh	85
	Chandigarh	0
	Haryana	59
	Punjab	59
2	Uttarakhand	154
3	Uttar Pradesh	224
	Delhi	0
4	Rajasthan	599
5	Bihar	1410
6	West Bengal	247
	Andaman Nicobar	0
7	Odisha	789
8	Jharkhand	47
9	Andhra Pradesh	473
	Telengana	289
10	Gujarat	239
11	Madhya Pradesh	153
12	Chhattisgarh	141
13	Tamil Nadu	9
	Puducherry	0
14	Karnataka	225
15	Maharashtra	856
16	Kerala	202
17	Assam	99
	Manipur	18
	Meghalaya	81
	Mizoram	25
	Nagaland	25
	Sikkim	20
	Tripura	1
18	Arunachal Pradesh	31
Total		6716

 

This information was given by Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and C&F Shri Mansukh L Mandaviya in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.

 

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