9th span of Padma Bridge installed

The ninth span of the 6.15-kilometre Padma Bridge was installed on the 34th and the 35th pillars at Jajira end in Shariatpur district. With the installation of the ninth span about one and half kilometers from the both end of the mega bridge is visible at the moment.

Deputy Assistant Engineer of Padma Bridge project Humayun Kabir said that the span was installed at around 8:15 am on Friday.

He said, the span could not be possible to install on Thursday due to technical problem. With installing the span on Friday total 1 thousand 200 meters of the Padma Bridge is visible at the Jajira end.

He also said, the ninth span was ready for installing at the Kumarbhog construction yard of Mawa. On Wednesday at 8:55 am 3 thousand 600 tons capacity crane Tian moved for Jajira after taking the 150 meters long and 3 thousand 140 tons weight span from the construction yard.

Earlier, on September 30, 2017 the first span was installed between pillar number 37 and 38, the second span was installed on January 28, 2018 between pillar number 38 and 39, the third span on March 11 between pillar number 39 and 40, the fourth on May 13 between pillar number 40 and 41, the fifth span on June 29 between 41 and 42, the sixth span was installed on January 23, 2019 between pillar number 36 and 37 and the seventh span was installed between pillar number 35 and 36 on February 20. Besides, another span was installed between pillar number 4 and 5 at the Mawa end. On Friday the ninth span was installed at Naudoba in Jajira end.

The number of total pillars in Padma Bridge is 42 and total 41 spans will be installed. The distance between one pillar to another is 150 meters.

AH