KMRCL completes India's maiden under-water metro tunnel between Kolkata and Howrah
According to Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited (KMRCL), the second tunnel boring machine reached Kolkata from Howrah end on Jun 20.
"The second 520-metre-long tunnel under river Ganges has been completed on Jun 20 while we successfully ended the construction of first under-water tunnel, metres away from the second one, last month," Managing Director of KMRCL, Satish Kumar, said during a press conference here in Kolkata on Friday.
"Our engineers and workers did their best to complete their task before a record deadline," Kumar added.
These tunnels have been bored 13 metres beneath the riverbed of Ganges, according to reports.
KMRCL MD also said that full operations of East-West metro, from Howrah Maidan to Salt Lake Sector V in Kolkata, would commence from 2020 while service between Sector V and Sealdah is likely to be made operational by next year.
Earlier, Union Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu inaugurated commencement of Esplanade Metro Station’s construction work of Kolkata’s East-West Metro link.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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