Work on East-West Metro in Kolkata to resume soon

Work on the East-West metro project for constructing the ventilation shaft at Subodh Mallick Square will start once the Kolkata Municipal Corporation vacates its staff quarters. There are 20 staff quarters at the place and these have to be vacated. Once that is done, KMC will begin to dismantle the structures and will make way for the construction of the ventilation shaft to start.
The first phase of the East-West project that will connect Salt Lake with Sealdah is expected to start operations from December 2017.
This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 9 November 2016.

The second phase of the East-West Metro Project would be from Sealdah to Howrah Maidan. In this stage, the Metro would ply underwater and work on this phase is expected to be completed by August 2019. As per plans, 14 airconditioned rakes would ply on this route with a carrying capacity of 2,136 passengers.
However, problems regarding removal of encroachment, acquisition of land, relocation of hutments etcetera continue to remain.


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