Only a Barrage Can Save! - The Ganga: Water Use in the Indian Subcontinent - page 97

Photograph 7.4 Sheet piling in progress on the upstream line of head regulator, January 1965
Photograph 7.5 Well sinking on right bank of Farakka, March 1965
to be interrupted while excavating the canal. The rail tracks were diverted after
construction of bridges over the canal at two locations, where excavation had to
be slowed down. A difficult situation arose in case of the State Highway between
Dhulian and Pakur, where the bridge work was slow. The earthwork below the road
bridge could not be excavated as the suspended girders (3 nos.) of the central sus-
pended span of the bridge were being cast over the ground and placing the same
over the bridge piers took considerable time with high technique of lifting the heavy