Kolkata Metro: Kavi Subhash to Hemanta Stretch ready for opening!!

Kolkata Metro: Kavi Subhash to Hemanta Stretch ready for opening

By Srikanto Mandal 30 Sept, 2022

Kolkata Metro’s crucial Kavi Subhash-Hemanta Mukhopadhyay stretch ready for opening

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The crucial Kavi Subhash-Hemanta Mukhopadhyay stretch of Kolkata Metro is ready to be opened, It is a major milestone in the city's Metro map.

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The approximately five-kilometre stretch in south Kolkata will connect Line 6 (Orange line) with Line 1 (North-South Blue line).

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The country's first Metro system, which was opened in 1984, has quickly expanded to around 50 km over the past one year.

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Kolkata Metro's Green line (East-West corridor) will be operational by October 2023, completing India's first underwater (subaqueous tunnel) rail tunnel under the Hooghly river.

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The tunnel will be a 520-metre-long rail system, 13 metres below the river bed.

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Part of Green line was made operational last year, from Salt Lake Sector V to Sealdah station, over a stretch of 9.3 km.

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The entire 16.5 km East-West corridor will connect Sealdah and Howrah railway stations, the two busiest railway stations in India.

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The railway ministry is trying to get Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate the Kavi Subhash-Hemanta Mukhopadhyay stretch.

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