When was kolkata metro started

Operation hours will now be from 7. As footfall has crossed 2 lakh for the last week, the carrier on Friday added eight trains and changed the peak-hour frequency from 6 minutes to 5 minutes. The last train from Dakshineswar station will be at 8. However, the first trains will leave at 7. But how about Kolkata's lifeline stretching to km from a humble 25km in the next three years? No matter how stuttering the progress of work sounds, compared to the Delhi Metro, the four-fold expansion is destined to change the life and times for the Kolkata suburbia forever.

It has added more services, too, taking the total number of daily trains to from Monday. The construction of Metro pier , planned in the middle of the Chingrighata crossing, is all set to start. With the number of passenger count crossing 2 lakhs, Metro Railway has decided to add eight more trains from Friday and reduce service frequencies from 6 minutes to 5 minutes.

When the new-look Majerhat Bridge was thrown open to public last year, it brought a huge relief to those living in New Alipore, Behala and beyond as it provided an easy alternative to travel to the city centre. The two dedicated lanes in each flank were able to soak the pressure that otherwise was a major challenge on this bridge.

Metro on Friday breached the 2 lakh mark in ridership for the first time after the services resumed on July 16, following the second Covid break. Hence, the hurry to connect Sealdah by the year-end. You must login to keep earning daily check-in points. Lifetime 0 Expired 0 Redeemed 0. Total redeemable TimesPoints 0. Sat, Nov 13, Updated Notification Center. News » kolkata metro. The Kolkata Metro is a mass rapid transit system which serves in Kolkata, capital city of West Bengal. This is the first metro system in India.

The first stretch, a length of about 3. Currently, the network consists of one operational line of Five other lines in various phases are under construction. Around 5 lakh people are using the Kolkata Metro on a daily basis. Metro to add 6 more servicess. Kolkata: N-S Metro to start operation at 7am from Monday to help students.

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Also read: Delhi said no but Mamata got Kolkata Metro to change route — now houses are collapsing. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Congress leader and former Union Minister of State for Railways, said Trinamool leaders caused the maximum damage to the project by provoking locals and forcing the railways to do the re-alignment. The railways never had any intention to take up the project, but it did when Mamata Banerjee became the railway minister.

In all cities, metro projects were executed by the urban development ministry. I pushed for the funds. In our last supplementary rail budget in , we allocated Rs crore to start the project again.

With the funds coming, the work started. The re-alignment was not needed, but she forcibly did it and the people are suffering. However, Firhad Hakim, the urban development minister of West Bengal, said the Trinamool Congress government had always supported the project and assisted the railways in acquiring land and negotiating with locals.

The biggest setback was technical — while tunnelling, water started gushing from the river at Strand Road, which runs along the river on the east bank Kolkata side. A senior KMRC engineer said it could only be managed as it was an open area. Ganguly Street at Bowbazar while carving out space for a tunnel towards Sealdah.

Water gushed out and forced several houses to collapse. According to a senior KMRC official, the East-West Metro project is insured for around Rs 1, crore, and a major part of this will go towards covering the losses caused by the TBM hitting the aquifer.

The railways had to compensate the displaced families and had to build new furnished houses for them. The compensation amount will run into several crores, added a railways official. The repeated delays have resulted in a per cent cost escalation of the East-West Metro project. In , the estimated cost was Rs 4, crore, but the KMRC estimates that it has risen to Rs 8, crore now, due to the higher prices of materials, contracts and compensation.

Kolkata is one of the oldest cities in the country. In an old city like Kolkata, it needs meticulous planning and adequate study to implement such a massive project. The pace of construction looks even slower when compared to other Indian cities like Delhi, Hyderabad, Bengaluru etc.

For the north-south corridor, tunnelling was a must, and after Tollygunge, some parts could be extended though over-ground connections.

It is the same with the East-West Metro. India needs free, fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism even more as it faces multiple crises. But the news media is in a crisis of its own.