"It is a 280 metre-long balanced cantilever bridge, which supplements the existing 1932 vintage, single lane, steel bridge," Dadu said. It has taken 31 long years for a concrete bridge to come up ...

The 81-year-old iconic Howrah Bridge (Rabindra Setu) -- that connects the cities of Kolkata and Howrah -- will remain closed ...

It is also India’s first Cantilever bridge and there were many challenges while constructing it, such as it was built in world’s second highly corrosive environment, first one being Mexico.