Vidyasagar Setu
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- Best time to go
- November–February
- Accessibility
- wheelchair-accessible
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
Vidyasagar Setu is a cable-stayed bridge over the Hooghly River linking Kolkata with Howrah, named after the nineteenth-century Bengali reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. Opened in 1992 after decades of planning, it was among the longest cable-stayed spans in India at the time and was built to relieve pressure on the older Howrah Bridge downstream. Its fan of steel cables rises from twin towers above the tidal river. Visitors crossing by road gain wide views of the working waterfront, its ghats and the barges that ply the Hooghly.
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