Karwar, Karnataka — NH-66
The Kali Bridge project is a continuous sequence of six network arch bridges on National Highway 66 over the Kali River at Karwar in Karnataka. The span arrangement is 100 + 122 × 4 + 100 metres — six arches in line, totalling 688 metres of network arch deck.
The work was awarded by IRB Infrastructure Developers as part of the NH-66 expansion programme along the Konkan coast.
The Kali River at Karwar is wide, tidal and navigable. Six arches keep span lengths consistent, give clean clearance over the navigable channel, and produce a deck profile that reads as a single architectural composition rather than a series of unrelated spans. We are not aware of another network arch sequence of this length and uniformity on the Indian highway network.
Piling is currently in progress. We will update this page with progress photographs once superstructure erection begins.
