Howrah Bridge is an extension with a suspended traverse over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Authorized in the scaffold was initially named the New Howrah Bridge, since it supplanted a boat connect at a similar area connecting the two urban areas of Howrah and Kolkata (Calcutta).
On 14 June 1965 it was renamed Rabindra Setu after the considerable Bengali artist Rabindranath Tagore, who was the main Indian and Asian Nobel laureate.
It is still prevalently known as the Howrah Bridge.
The scaffold is one of four on the Hooghly River and is a well known image of Kolkata and West Bengal. Alternate extensions are the Vidyasagar Setu (prevalently called the Second Hooghly Bridge), the Vivekananda Setu, and the recently manufactured Nivedita Setu. It climates the tempests of the Bay of Bengal district, conveying an every day activity of around 100,000 vehicles and potentially in excess of 150,000 pedestrians,effectively making it the busiest cantilever connect in the world.
The third-longest cantilever connect at the season of its construction,the Howrah Bridge is as of now the 6th longest scaffold of its compose in the world.
In excess of 2 million individuals cross the Hooghly River by method for the Howrah Bridge every day, gaining it the title of the busiest cantilever connect on the planet. The 2,313 foot (705 meter) breadth of steel supports hanging over the water associate the sister urban communities of Howrah and Kolkata (Calcutta) with eight paths of clamorous auto rickshaws, bikes, bicycles, autos, creatures and passerby activity.
A scaffold connecting the urban areas was initially proposed in 1862, however gets ready for the extension didn't work out as expected until 1943. Since its erection, the Howrah Bridge has turned into a social symbol in Kolkata and West Bengal and has filled in as a setting and motivation for the 1958 movie Howrah Bridge by executive Shakti Samanta.
Visit the extension in the early morning to see early rising inhabitants washing along the ghats at the base of the scaffold. Under the eastern side of the extension, you'll locate the beautiful and disorderly Mullik Ghat Flower Market, an awesome place to individuals watch while tasting on tea.
