Signature Bridge on Yamuna expressway set to be inaugurated on Sunday

We want to appeal to people of Delhi to come to the inauguration ceremony. There will get the opportunity to see how the bridge without a pillar works. It will be followed by a laser show,” Sisodia said.

Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Friday invited the general public to witness a “civil engineering spectacle” as the much-awaited Signature Bridge over the Yamuna in northwest Delhi will be inaugurated on Sunday.

The Signature bridge is being projected as India’s first asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge and was pitched as an iconic project for the Capital. (HT FIle Photo)

The bridge will be thrown open for the public on Monday.

“We want to appeal to people of Delhi to come to the inauguration ceremony. There will get the opportunity to see how the bridge without a pillar works. It will be followed by a laser show,” Sisodia said after inspecting the infrastructure project on Friday.

The bridge is being projected as India’s first asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge and was pitched as an iconic project for the Capital.

After Sunday’s inauguration, the bridge will be finally thrown open for public on Monday —14 years after it was conceptualised. Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Sisodia would be attending Sunday’s event.

The bridge will reduce the travel time between north and northeast Delhi and will be developed into a tourist spot in the second phase of its development, Sisodia said on Friday.

“It will serve as a tourist destination with the 154-metre-high glass box which is double the height of Qutub Minar,” Sisodia said.

Announced in 2004, the bridge was initially estimated to cost around ₹494 crore. Later, it was projected to be completed at a modified estimate of ₹1,131 crore ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which were held in Delhi.

But since then, the project missed several deadlines and the cost eventually inflated to ₹1,594 crore.

The bridge will share the burden of vehicular traffic currently borne by the Wazirabad Bridge.