Updated: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 06:23 am (IST) The conservation work of 400-year-old Barapula Bridge is completed by the archaeological survey of India before December. This bridge, built during the reign of Mughal -Equeer Jahangir, is preserved after removing the transgressions. There is ahead of repairing the bridge, filling cracks and strengthening the upper part. Asi will consider opening it to tourists after the second phase of the work. Repairs from the 400 -year -old Barapula bridge continue. State Bureau, New -Delhi. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is giving a new life to this 400-year-old bridge, after which the Barapulla Bridge National Monument is named. For this purpose, conservation work of this bridge monument has begun that will be completed before December. Remove ad Read only news about the instructions of the lieutenant -governor, there has been a plan to preserve it over the past two years after removing it. Barapula Bridge was built between 1612-1621 during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir. It got its name because of its 12 pillars and 11 bows. It was once considered the most beautiful bridge of Delhi. But it has been in a bad condition over the past few years. Working in two phases working on Barapula Bridge is scheduled in two phases. In the first phase, its exceeding was removed. The technical recording was done. A plan was made about what work should be done here. After this, the proposed work was divided into two parts. Under the first phase it was closed by installing a gate so that the invaders could not capture it again. Under the second phase, the work of removing the gravel and bitumen material from the road above is now beginning. Due to the road built over the years, a lot of material has built on it. After this material is completely removed, the roof, that is, the upper part of the bridge, will be reinforced by archaeological method. So that water cannot enter into it. Many towers on both sides of the bridge are broken and will be reinstalled. The cracks in the bridge will be filled. Technical recording of 12 pillars of the bridge has also been done in which there is currently no need to do work on these pillars. After completing the second phase of the work, Asi will decide how it will be further established for tourists. ASI official said his conservation work would be completed at the end of November. He gave Lieutenant -Governor VK Saxena the date to complete the work by the end of October, but due to delayed monsoon rains, the work could start at the second phase. He said that the work to remove gravel and bitumen material from the bridge is almost complete.
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