Prime Minister Modi to inaugurate new Pamban rail bridge on April 6

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate India’s first vertical lift sea bridge connecting Tamil Nadu’s Rameswaram Island to the mainland on the occasion of Ram Navami on April 6. Modi will pray at the Ramanathaswamy temple in Rameswaram followed by the inauguration of the New Pamban Bridge, which the ministry of railways has described as a modern engineering
on April 6, 2025, on the occasion of Ram Navami. The state-of-the-art 2.1-km bridge is India’s first vertical lift railway sea bridge, with a vertical lift span of 72 m. It is a significant improvement over the cantilever system of the 104-year Old Pamban Bridge.