Srikrishna Setu Munger Ganga Bridge is a rail-cum-road bridge across

the Ganges, at Munger in the Indian state of BiharThe bridge connects Munger
District Munger-Jamalpur twin cities to various districts of North Bihar. Srikrishna
Setu Munger Ganga Bridge is the third rail-cum-road bridge over Ganga in Bihar.
The 3.692-kilometre-long (2.294 mi) bridge costing Rs. 9,300 million is located
55 km downstream of the Rajendra Setu near Mokama and 68 km upstream of
the Vikramshila Setu at Bhagalpur. The bridge will form a link between NH 33 on
the southern side of the Ganges and NH 31 on the northern side of the Ganges.
Shrikrishna Setu connects Jamalpur Junction and Ratanpur railway station on
the Sahibganj Loop line of Eastern Railway through a new junction namely
Sabdalpur Junction on north end of bridge to Sahebpur Kamal Junction and Khagaria
Junction on the Barauni-Katihar section of East Central Railway. The Bridge
connects districts of Begusarai and Khagaria to the Divisional headquarters Munger
city.
Construction work on the bridge was inaugurated by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime
Minister, through video conference system, in 2002. Bridge was formally opened
for freight trains on 12 March 2016 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was finally
opened for passenger trains on 11 April 2016 by Minister of state for
Railways, Manoj Sinha by flagging off Begusarai-Jamalpur DEMU train. In his
inaugural speech the MOS Mr. Manoj Sinha announced that the bridge will be
named " Sri Krishna Setu " " श्रीकृष्ण सेतु " in the honour of the Great Freedom
Fighter, Premier and 1st Chief Minister and Architect of Modern Bihar "Bihar
Keshri" Dr. Srikrishna Sinha "Sri Babu".Road on bridge is complete too but
approach roads are not ready due to lack of land acquisition.