♦ Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated India’s second longest cable-stayed Sigandur bridge across the Sharavathi backwaters in Sagar taluk of Shivamogga district in Karnataka. 

♦ The bridge between Sagara and Marakutika covers 2.44 kms and is 16 meters wide.

♦ Constructed at a cost of over Rs. 470 crore, this bridge will reduce the distance from Sagara town to Sigandur where the famous Chowdeshwari temple is situated.

♦ The minister named the bridge after goddess Chowdeshwari devi.