Vivekananda Road, once known as Minto Road, passes under the bridge,[1] connecting Connaught Place to the Ajmeri Gate side of the New Delhi Railway Station and Old Delhi.
[2][3] Journalist and chronicler RV Smith places the date of construction as 1933.
[4][5] AK Jain, an architect and a planner at Delhi Development Authority, places the construction to 1926.
[7] It is now a heritage structure; this designation comes into light during plans to redevelop the area.
[8][9] The bridge is named after Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto who was the viceroy and governor-general of India from 1905 to 1910.