Madhavi Lata, Civil Engineer
New Delhi: If you have a passion to do something in the heart and you keep working hard, then one day the floor kisses your step. There was something similar in Madhavi Lata, who made it possible for an impossible project with her stubbornness, passion and hard work. Yes, this is the result of Madhavi Lata and her team’s constant hard work that India managed to build the world’s highest rail bridge in the inaccessible area of Jammu and Kashmir. Chenab Bridge was inaugurated by PM Modi on Friday.
How did Madhavi Lata reach Indian Institute of Science?
Professor Madhavi Lata has contributed a lot in the construction of Chenab Bridge in the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) in Bengaluru. Madhavi Lata not only designed this bridge but also played a big role in its construction.
Madhavi Lata earned a BTech degree in Civil Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in 1992. After this, he won a gold medal in MTech from NIT in Warangal. Madhavi did not stop here, she completed her PhD in the year 2000. He also taught in IIT Guwahati before joining the Indian Institute of Science in 2004. Philhava Madhavi Lata is a senior professor at the Indian Institute of Science. Madhavi Lata also got the title of Best Woman Geotechnical Researcher in 2021 and Top Women in Steam in 2022.
Madhavi Lata has received these awards
Madhavi Lata is quite interested in durable soil reinforcement, earthquake ground technology and rock engineering research. On behalf of the Indian Ground Technical Society, he has received the award for the best female researcher in Geote Technical Engineering. He has also received IISC Professor SK Chatterjee Excellent Researcher Award, Women Achievers Award and SERB Power Fellowship by Karnataka Book of Records. She is among the top 75 women of Steam of India.
Description of challenges in the article
On 28 May 2025, an article was published in the women’s special issue of the Indian Geotechnical Journal. Its title was “Design Age You Go: The Case Study of Chenab Railway Bridge”. It was written by D. Madhavi Lata. In this, he has described in detail the major challenges that came to the construction of the bridge in the last 17 years. Soon after the inauguration of Chenab Bridge, the Indian Institute of Science shared a post on X. This post was said that we are proud of Professor Madhavi Lata and her team in the construction of Chenab Bridge inaugurated by PM Modi. The team faced the stability of the slopes, the design and construction of the foundation, the design of the slope stabilization systems, the dangers.
Specialty of Chenab Bridge
- Width of main arches-467 m
- Total length of the bridge- 1,315 m
- 266 kmph
- Chenab bridge is higher than Eiffel Tower
- About five times higher than Qutub Minar
- Use of more than 28,000 metric tons of steel
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