Kolkata Metro | State urges railway board to stretch green-light metro
Kolkata: In Kolkata Metro two stretches i.e., from Monipore to Esplanade in the Jocka Esplanade alignment and from the airport to new Barrackpore of the Noapara-Barasat route are in the limbo and this is because the material modification is still not approved by the railway board. A chief wrote to the board that the state has cleared all the roadblock so they expedite the process. In railways Jagron “material modification” mainly refers to the project in which without the planning commission’s approval the railway ministers through an executive order sanctioned through rail budget. In the letter addressed to the chairman of the railway board the chief secretary has urged him to improve the changes that has been agreed upon by both the executing agency and the board, saying no construction could be undertake because the modification had not been approved. On Airport- Barasat stretch they planned to have an elevated track from Nopara to Barasat. But the safety no...