At last Delhi cleared the way for Kolkata’s second Metro corridor.
The Rs 4,680-crore East-West Metro project, a 13.77-km stretch of underground and elevated tracks from Salt Lake to Howrah, will be implemented by a company modelled on the Delhi Metro Railways Corporation. It will have six representatives each of the Centre and the state government. Urban development secretary M. Ramachandran will be its chairman.
Work will start next January and the route is likely to be inaugurated by 2014.
Chief secretary Amit Kiran Deb said the elevated tracks would be laid first. “The completion cost is likely to increase to around Rs 5,300 crore. The elevated portion will be made operational once construction is complete.”
The state will bear 30 per cent of the expenditure and the Centre 25 per cent. The remaining 45 per cent will be a soft loan from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
East-West Metro route
Source: Anandabazar Patrika
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The East-West Metro will have 12 stations, of which six will be underground and six elevated. A stretch of 8 Kilometers wil be underground and under the Ganges and the rest 5.77 Kilometers will be elevated.
The government will acquire three acres of land for the stations. The car shed will be at Salt Lake’s Central Park. 35-40 acres of land will be needed for that and the state government is to provide it for free, which according to present land price costs Rs 600 crore. “People affected by the project will be relocated on plots owned by the transport department off Poddar Court and along AJC Bose Road,” Deb said.
The fares will range from Rs 8 to Rs 15. The difference between the existing Metro and the East-West link is that the new one will have standard gauge instead of broad gauge tracks. The tunnels under the Hooghly will be dug using a boring machine weighing 500 tonnes.
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation had been commissioned by the Bengal government to prepare the project report.
“The Kolkata East-West Metro structures have been designed to be earthquake-resistant,” Delhi Metro spokesperson Anuj Dayal said.
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