Kolkata Underwater Metro | KMRC completes India"s first underwater metro tunnel
Kolkata: The tunnelling work under the Hooghly river, the first such underwater project in the country, to provide metro connectivity between Howrah and Kolkata has been completed. The tunnel is a crucial link for the 16.4 km-long mass rapid transport (MRT) project being constructed by the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) at an estimated cost of around Rs 9,000 crore. India has joined a select band of nations. Another rare feat achieved by Kolkata after getting the first metro railway in the country in 1984. "The KMRC team, including engineers from abroad, has completed the construction of India"s first underwater tunnel under the Hooghly river," Satish Kumar, the MD of KMRC, said here today. He said tunnelling from the Howrah end started in the last week of April and reached the Kolkata end on June 20. Two tunnels, for onward and return journeys, have been bored 13 metre beneath the riverbed and 30 metre from the ground. The operation of the East-West Metro Corrido...