Metro GM inspects New Garia-Airport line

Kolkata: Manoj Joshi, general manager, Metro Railway, on Wednesday inspected the stretch between Kavi Subhas and Salt Lake Sector V stations of the upcoming

New Garia

(Kavi Subhas)-Airport

corridor

project along with senior officers of Metro Railway and Amit Roy, executive director, Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL).

RVNL is implementing most of the city’s Metro projects, but Metro Railway is the umbrella organization which is responsible for operations and execution of the city’s rapid transit system. A 5km section between Hemanta Mukherjee station at Ruby crossing and the Kavi Subhas

terminal

at Sonarpur, of the 32km Metro project which will join Kavi Subhas with Airport via EM Bypass and New Town, is veering towards commissioning next year. Even as tracks have been laid along most of the 5km viaduct, and some stations like JN Nandi at Mukundapur on EM Bypass are getting finishing touches, there’s still a 120m gap at the Avishikta crossing that is now being filled up.

Joshi and his team started at 10.30am, checking out the work progress of the Kavi Subhas terminal. He inspected the rake-reversal arrangements here and visited the passenger-interchanging points between the old and new Kavi Subhas Metro stations as well as New Garia station of Eastern Railway. Kavi Subhas will be a crucial terminal where the north-south line and the New Garia-Airport lines will meet. Joshi took stock of the progress of the construction of the double discharge platforms and the carshed next to the terminal. Later, he inspected the Satyajit Ray, JN Nandi, Hemanta Mukherjee, Kavi Sukanta, Beliaghata and Salt Lake Sector V stations. Joshi also discussed the

action

plan for completion of work at

critical

locations where discontinuities of viaduct are needed to be bridged. The GM reviewed the passenger interchanging arrangements at Salt Lake Sector V station with East-West Metro.