* This 4.5km long bridge was constructed in a span of 20 years from 1996 to 2016 with an expenditure of about 1600 crores.
* This is a huge amount and in today's terms it is anywhere around 4000-5000 crores. Finally, what is the utility of this huge expenditure is known to all of us.which carry mostly ticketless travellers (Except Mr. & Mrs Lalu Yadav as shown in the picture) every day.
* The loan taken to construct the bridge is perpetually costing
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more... few hundred crore Rs per annum to IR by way of interest paid
plus a few hundred crores to pay back the principal amount
plus Rs 10-20 crores of Rs as operational losses in running a few trains
plus several crores to maintain the line & bridge
* Finally, IR and its paxs are suffering for this financial blunder caused by our elected leaders and what the financial return of this huge expenditure is known to all of us.This is what our elected leaders are doing to our nation.!
* This amount could have been used to lay additional line for 500 kms of the trunk line which would have given a surplus revenue of a few hundred crore Rs to IR due to additional traffic carried.