India's first water metro tunnel to be constructed in Kolkata by 2023

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• Apr 9, 2022 | Poonam Nath

Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRCL) is constructing the Kolkata East-West Metro line, an underwater tunnel running beneath the Hooghly river.

Digital Desk: Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRCL) is building the Kolkata East-West Metro line, which is India's first underground water metro tunnel.

Five hundred twenty metres of the 16.6-kilometre east-west route will be beneath the riverbed. The tunnel corridor would connect Kolkata and Howrah and built 33 metres below the riverbank.

 Mithun Ghosh, the Site Supervisor, entrusts the project's facilities and safety measures; he also said that there would be walkways in the tunnels for passenger escape in the event of an emergency.

"Important Passage work has also been done," Mithun explained, "bearing in mind that passengers can be transported out using the special passage if a technical problem happens inside the water tunnel region."

He also stated that over 80% of the work on the East-West Howrah Metro station had been finished, with full service planned to launch in 2023.

"The station is being built at a depth of 33 metres beneath the Hooghly river. Eighty per cent of the work has been completed, with the remaining twenty per cent to be completed. By 2023, it will be operational, "Ghosh stated.

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