evidence: New Narmada river bridge in Bharuch on NH 8 to be operational early next year By correspondent at Bharuch: The woes of commuters and transporters owing to recurring horrible jams on the all important Ahmedabad-Mumbai section of National Highway 8 in Bharuch is likely to be over by March next year when the construction of India’s largest extra dosed bridge on river Narmada is re-scheduled to be completed. The deadline of completion of bridge work was August 2016 and later it was extended to November this year. However now the target is to complete it by March next year. The 1344 meter long and 22.8 meter wide four lane cable stay bridge, the 3rd bridge over Narmada in Bharuch, being built by Larsen & Tubro as part of Rs 379 crore six laning project of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) between km 192 to km 198 section of Bharuch-Surat segment of NH8 was to be completed by September this year ahead of its schedule.