Nivedita Setu (also called Second Vivekananda Setu) is a multi-span extradosed bridge that was built over Hooghly River connecting Howrah with Kolkata,West Bengal. It runs parallel to and about 50 m downstream of the old Vivekananda Setu opened in 1932. The bridge is named after Sister Nivedita, the social worker-disciple of Swami Vivekananda. Belghoria Expressway that connects the meeting point of NH 16 with NH 19 at Dankuni to NH 12, NH 112, Dumdum/Kolkata Airport and northern parts of Kolkata passes over the bridge. The bridge is designed to carry 48,000 vehicles per day.[1][2]
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^"Famous Bridges of India – Nivedita Setu". India Travel News. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
NiveditaSetu (also called Second Vivekananda Setu) is a multi-span extradosed bridge that was built over Hooghly River connecting Howrah with Kolkata...
A new road bridge, the NiveditaSetu, was constructed 50 m (160 ft) downstream in 2007 due to weakening of the Vivekanada Setu caused by its ageing. The...
renamed as Rabindra Setu (since 1965 in honour of the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore); and NiveditaSetu (named after Sister Nivedita), also known as...
bridges are the Vidyasagar Setu (popularly called the Second Hooghly Bridge), the Vivekananda Setu and the relatively new NiveditaSetu. It carries a daily traffic...
Kolkata NiveditaSetu (Second Vivekananda Bridge) - inaugurated in July 2007, connecting Bally and Dakhineswar; runs adjacent to Vivekananda Setu Vivekananda...
known as Nivedita, Indian film actress from the 1960s and 1970s NiveditaSetu, bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal Sister Nivedita University...
terminus for other routes continued to function until 1992, when the Rabindra Setu (Howrah Bridge) was declared unfit to carry trams because it was a cantilever...
known as Rabindra Setu Vidyasagar Setu, also known as the second Hooghly Bridge Vivekananda Setu, also known as Bally Bridge NiveditaSetu, also known as...
16 and NH 19 at Rajchandrapur (near Dankuni) to Dakshineswar across NiveditaSetu and then to NH 12 (Jessore Road) at Dumdum/Kolkata Airport. Belghoria...
Bengali). 2020-08-18. Retrieved 2020-09-22. "Famous Bridges of India – NiveditaSetu". India Travel News. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved...
Indraprastha Station. India's first extradosed bridge for road traffic, NiveditaSetu, was completed in 2007 by Larsen & Toubro Ltd. for the Second Vivekananda...
crossed by Kona Expressway (NH 12), which connects to Kolkata via Vidyasagar Setu and towards rest of the NH 16 and to the NH 19. Santragachi has a big bus...
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