Poira bridge: Construction of India's first horizontal swing bridge

The paper covers the details of the Poira horizontal swing bridge, the first of its kind to be completed in India. There are a number of bridges with vertical opening of the superstructure for facilitating movement of ships/barges in the river/canal/sea but in this case horizontal opening of a super structure for navigation purpose has been provided. The paper gives full details of the salient features, design, construction testing, operation and maintenance of the bridges.