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Land of the last Himalayan Kingdom

Dooars

Closer to nature

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Sundarban

Home of Royal Bengal Tiger

Kolkata

The city of Joy

Nepal

Asia's alpine playground

Bhutan

The land of Happiness

 

Howrah Bridge ( Rabindra Setu)
 
 
Rabindra Setu – popularly known as Howrah Bridge is an engineering marvel and is counted amongst the busiest cantilever bridge in the world. Howrah Bridge spans over river Hoogly and still remains the gateway to Kolkata city. Howrah Bridge got its name owing to the fact that it connects the city of Howrah to Kolkata. On June14, 1965 Howrah Bridge renamed Rabindra Setu , after Rabindrantah Tagore, a great poet and the first Indian Nobel laureate.
 
The main purpose to build the bridge was to facilitate Military Transportation between Kolkata and the industrial town of  Howrah during the World War II.
 
Construction of the Howrah Bridge started in 1937 and it took seven years to build the cantilever bridge. It was opened to the traffic on February 1943. The bridge is 705 metres long and 30 metres wide. More than 26,500 MT of high-tensile steel went into this unique bridge supported by two piers, each nearly 90 meters above the road. An engineering marvel, it expands as much as a metre during a summer day. Apart from bearing the stormy weather of the Bay of Bengal region, it successfully bears the weight of a daily traffic of approximately 80,000 vehicles and, possibly, more than 1,000,000 pedestrians. It is the sixth longest bridge of its type in the world.
 
Though it had a tram route, but presently it is serving mainly as a road bridge.

 

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