Durgam Cheruvu Cable Stay Bridge Inaugurated

The cable stay bridge built by Larsen & Toubro over the Durgam Cheruvu lake was inaugurated today by the Telangana minister for Municipal Administration & Urban Development K T Rama Rao in the presence of G Kishan Reddy, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs; Bonthu Rammohan, Mayor of Hyderabad; L&T's senior management and project team; and other dignitaries.

Constructed under Telangana's Strategic Road Development Program, the bridge will ease traffic flow towards Hitec City, reducing the commute time from Jubilee Hills to Madhapur from 30 to a mere 10 minutes, and the distance from Mindspace to Jubilee Hills by 2 km.

"Our association with this young state of Telangana has been rich, and we are proud to have delivered yet another pearl to the City of Pearls," said S N Subrahmanyan, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Larsen & Toubro. "Infrastructure development should ultimately improve the life of citizens, and this bridge will certainly improve connectivity within the city of Hyderabad manifold. We are also grateful to the government of Telangana for having reposed faith in us once again to deliver another world-class infrastructure project, and are happy to have delivered to its complete satisfaction."

"A unique aspect of this bridge is that it has the world's longest precast segmental span of 233.85 m in concrete for a cable stay bridge," elaborated S V Desai, Director & Senior Executive Vice President (Civil Infrastructure), Larsen & Toubro. "We have constructed it despite the extremely challenging conditions and terrains that we encountered, using a total of 428 MT of high-tensile strand, 26,600 cum of concrete, 4,800 MT of steel and 287 MT of stay-cables. We are happy that we have delivered the project in time even during these unprecedented times of the pandemic."

The cable-stayed bridge portion is 435 m long, including the approaches at both ends, and 25.8 m wide, with a total of 52 stay cables. The approach viaduct and solid ramps are 309.8 m long with 1.8 m wide footpaths on both the sides. While the cables were procured from Germany, everything else was sourced from India, making this an excellent example of the "Make in India" movement.