Palk Strait Bridge
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palk-strait-bridge-163-3272465
title:
Palk Strait Bridge
text:
The Palk Strait Bridge and Tunnel is a proposed 23-kilometre (14 mi) road and rail bridge and tunnel over the Palk Strait between Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu and Talaimannar on Mannar Island, an island off the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka. During the 2002-2004 Peace Accord, the then Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, asked India to help build what he called the ‘Hanuman Bridge’. In June 2015, Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways of the Republic of India, submitted the propo
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description:
Proposed bridge between Tamil Nadu, India, and Mannar Island, Sri Lanka
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palk_Strait_Bridge
date created:
2015-06-17T14:39:07Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T05:24:07Z
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