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Second Hooghly Bridge

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Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Second Hooghly Bridge
Phone:
+91 94333 78697

Address:
33,B.G Road | Suit 202, CO Sayantan Sarkar ,Hooghly River, Near IIEST, Howrah 711103, India

Vidyasagar Setu , also known as the Second Hooghly Bridge , is a toll bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India, linking the cities of Kolkata and Howrah. With a total length of 823 metres , Vidyasagar Setu is the longest cable–stayed bridge in India. As 3rd Narmada Bridge in Gujarat . is an Extradosed bridge. It was the second bridge to be built across the Hooghly River; the first, the Howrah Bridge 3.7 kilometres to the north, was completed in 1943. Named after the educationist reformer Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, it cost ₹3.88 billion to build. The project was a joint effort between the public and private sectors, under the control of the Hooghly River Bridge Commissioners Initially, under the toll collection regime of the HRBC, daily traffic was recorded to be a minimum of 28,000 vehicles and a maximum of 39,000 vehicles in 2000, but fell to a maximum of around 30,000 vehicles by December 2002, when the management of the toll plaza was handed over to a private firm. Subsequently, the daily traffic reached a minimum of 45,000 vehicles and a maximum of 61,000 vehicles by early 2008, against a maximum capacity of 85,000 vehicles per day. The original management of the toll revenue collection by HRBC was consequently criticized for corruption and significant loss of revenue.
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