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DIBRUGARH: The country's longest rail-cum-road bridge - the Bogibeel Bridge over the Brahmaputra in Dibrugarh - is likely to be ready by December this year.MK Singh, the deputy chief engineer of the Northeast Frontier Railway in charge of the project, on Monday said 70% of the work had been completed. The upper deck will be 10.5m above the the lower deck.The project includes construction of 29.45km of road (including the bridge) and a rail link of 74km. "The bridge should be ready by December if everything goes according to plan. A total of 125m of road has been built from the Dhemaji side (north bank) of the bridge. It will be a double-decked bridge featuring two railway lines on the lower deck and a three-lane road on the upper deck, flanked by footpaths on either side..