when I visited kolkata 2014

Vidyasagar Setu.

I was here today. Date 12/05/2014 with my family. It is a very beautiful place, have also taken some pictures which have been with you .

I am also sharing some information about you here.

Vidyasagar Setu, additionally referred to as the Second Hooghly Bridge, could be a toll bridge over the Hooghly stream in state, India, linking the cities of Calcutta and Howrah. With a complete length of 823 metres, Vidyasagar Setu is that the initial and longest cable-stayed bridge in Bharat, as the third Narmada Bridge in Gujarat is an associate extradosed bridge. it absolutely was the second bridge to be designed across the Hooghly River; the primary, the Howrah Bridge three.7 kilometres to the north, was completed in 1943. Named when the specialist reformer Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, it cost ₹3.88 billion to create. The project was a joint effort between the public and personal sectors, below the management of the Hooghly stream Bridge Commissioners. Initially, below the toll assortment regime of the HRBC, daily traffic was recorded to be a minimum of twenty-eight,000 vehicles and a most thirty-nine,000 vehicles in 2000, however fell to a most of around thirty,000 vehicles by Gregorian calendar month 2002, once the management of the parcel was handed over to a personal firm. Afterwards, the daily traffic reached a minimum of forty-five,000 vehicles and a most of sixty-one,000 vehicles by early 2008, against a most capability of eighty-five,000 vehicles per day. 


one photograph of this place .









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