Howrah bridge in kolkata

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View of famous howrah bridge walking through this bridge will give you a lifetime experiance
View of famous howrah bridge walking through this bridge will give you a lifetime experiance3019×952 668 KB

Love this place for it engineering

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Thanks for sharing, @AbhishekThakur .

The bridge looks very impressive. How long is it? When was it built? Crafting your posts as detailed as possible makes other members of the community more engaged. If you are interested to learn more, you can check out What makes a good post?

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Thanks for the suggestion @IrrPavlova ,

The length of the bridge is 705 meter and was Constructed in the year 1943.

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I read that it was once named Rabindra Setu after the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first Indian and Asian Nobel laureate.

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yes it’s true and stilled called Rabindra setu but the bridge is popularly known as Howrah Bridge. It is also busiest bridge in india bearing a load of around 100,000 vehicles and over 150,000 pedestrians each day.