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Kolkata: Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (KMRCL) plans microsurgery. This is to remove key hurdle of tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that East-West Metro corridor encountered. The Kolkata Metro officials are using international method to remove the hurdle. The metro officials are facing trouble from the Esplanade to Sealdah stretch. They now plan to employ Australian tunnelling method to remove the hurdle. Five steel H-Piles blocking the route just beyond Esplanade station will be manually removed. Parashuram Singh, managing director, KMRCL explains that a 40m-long and 3m-wide pilot tunnel will be manually dug linking the two tunnels that the TBMs will excavate. To avoid the earth from caving in, engineers will employ a technique called Fore-poling. As the excavation progresses, sharp metal poles will be employed to form a cover. The H-piles will then be cut by the workers. Four more such piles will be cut through to clear the hurdle ads Singh. By middle of August work will begin an...

Kolkata: A trial run on 3km stretch between Central Park and Sector V was conducted on Wednesday on East-West metro. In October the lines that connect Sector V with a salt lake stadium is expected to be open. This line will be opened 34 years after another metro’s in Kolkata . India’s first metro that was open for thrown public in October 1984. On Wednesday, the people were on their rooftops to catch the event on their phones. People were standing at the top of Bikash Bhavan, HSBC building. From inside the metro, one could see all the people. Even, on the terraces of the nursing home, white-coated doctor and nurses were also spotted. Officials and engineers from K olkata Metro Rail Corporation(KMRC) , PSU Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML) and the implementing agency of the 16.5 km project on board there were around 60 people. KMRC director (project) Manas Sarkar said that On the first day the train covered three stations in three and a half hours, but engineers representing gen...

Kolkata: According to a communication issued by the Indian railways to West Bengal government needs to remove around 2,000 squatters of substantial land which was acquired for the Airport-Barasat metro of Kolkata Metro Rail Project to have any chance of completing it. The administration had so far managed to remove close to 1,000 squatters from various Metro construction sites. But both the railways and the state government acknowledge that getting double the number of people to shift from just one stretch is a gargantuan challenge, said by a senior railway official of the state government. Because of some technical hurdles on the construction of the 3.5 km stretch from the proposed airport metro hub till new Barrakpore the metro railway had already submitted an alternative plan to the railway board. As now the rest of the route will be underground the encroachment would now be entailed and the expenditure will rise for about two and a half times. The estimated cost is Rs. 500-600 c...

Kolkata: The much talked about Barrackpore Metro link that was scheduled to laid through BT Road and a stretch be built underground might now be taken through Kalyani Expressway. This moves comes after the engineering consultancy RITES submitted its report to state government. Barrackpore City In its report RITES has reported that is it possible to divert the Baranagar-Barrackpore route for metro rail project. The experts in the reports have suggested that between Noapara and Kalyani Expressway the tracks can pass underground for about 2km, which is a congested residential area. Building tracks on ground would mean razing the residential properties falling on the proposed stretch. As per the proposal the underground stretch can be construction between Noapara and Nimta, informed officials. The catch to the proposal is that by building underground stretch, the cost of the project is likely to escalate. This proposed project ironically has not taken off in last seven years. Commuters are...