Decks cleared for ₹3,000-cr metro line in Kolkata

Metro Project
Decks have been cleared for the construction of Joka-Esplanade Metro line in Kolkata with the Ministry of Defence allowing the construction work in the defence land area. Defence secretary Ajay Kumar informed that the Metro station at Mominpur and tunnelling below Maidan, both plots belonging to defence, would now be easier with the MOD easing the defence land lease process for public projects like Metro. It is a major boost for many Metro projects across the country, especially the Joka-Esplanade Metro project, as a part of the underground stretch requiring green signal from the MOD, informed RVNL, the executing body of major Metro corridors in the city. The new guideline will provide relief to metro projects with no lease rent for tunnelling of metro projects under defence land. Apart from the Mominpur Metro station in the Command Hospital ground, the tunnels are allowed near Turf View, the residential complex of defence personnel on Orphangunge Road, Alipore and Maidan area of the Kolkata city.
📅 Published on: 31 July 2020
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