Kolkata to have India's first underwater metro by June 2023: KMRC Officials

The East-West Corridor Project, which will be India's first underwater metro service, is anticipated to be finished by June 2023, according to the project's implementing organisation Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC). Between Sector V and Sealdah stations, the metro line that would run from Salt Lake City to Howrah via Kolkata and a section below the Hooghly River, is currently in service.

TN City Desk

Updated Aug 10, 2022, 14:27 IST

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Kolkata: The East-West Corridor Project, which will be India's first underwater metro service, is anticipated to be finished by June 2023, according to the project's implementing organisation Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC).

Between Sector V and Sealdah stations, the metro line that would run from Salt Lake City to Howrah via Kolkata and a section below the Hooghly River, is currently in service.

"Target for commissioning of the balance section from Sealdah to Howrah Maidan is June 2023," the KMRC said in a statement.

9.30 km of the project's total 16.55 km are in operation between Sector V and Sealdah. It predicted that the remaining 7.25 km would be operational in less than a year.

Millions of commuters will be greatly relieved when the project is finished since it will link the congested Howrah and Sealdah railway stations with the Esplanade stop of the North-South Line of the Kolkata Metro.

10.8 km of the total 16.55 km of the route are underground, and 5.8 km are elevated.

The project, which was initially expected to be finished by December 2021, has been delayed as a result of incidents that occurred at Bowbazar in central Kolkata while tunneling work was being done.

Nearly three years after a comparable event there, several houses there experienced cracking in May when underground work was being done.

A tunnel boring equipment struck an aquifer on August 31, 2019, which caused catastrophic ground subsidence and the collapse of numerous nearby houses.

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