The country’s largest steel maker SAIL conveyed it has supplied 35,400 tonne of steel for construction of Bogibeel, Asia’s second-longest rail-cum-road bridge which was opened to traffic by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. SAIL has supplied TMT rebars, plates and structurals for this 4.94-km long bridge, which has composite welded steel truss girders in its structures as per reports. The 4.9 km-long Bogibeel Bridge on the Brahmaputra river has been constructed at Rs 5,900 crore. The bridge reduces travel time from Assam to Arunachal Pradesh to four hours and will cut out detour of over 170 km via Tinsukia. It will also reduce Delhi to Dibrugarh train travel time by about three hours to 34 hours as against 37 hours currently.