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Kolkata Metro
The Kolkata Metro, originally Calcutta Metro, is the first among mass rapid transport systems that were established in India and it opened its commercial services as early as 1984 at Kolkata with North and South 24 Paragnas districts in the State of West Bengal. It is now functional with one line and has plans for five more lines in progress.
It is also the first underground Metro rail in India, running from Dum Dum, near NetajiSubhas Chandra Bose International Airport to Tollygunj which is the north south axis of Kolkata, in a stretch of 16.45 kms.
This underground corridor operates 17 stations each one km apart and this line was constructed stage by stage from 1972 to 1995. Esplanade-Bhowanipur stretch of 3.04 km length was first constructed in 1984 and the entire length of 16.45 km in Phase I was completed by 1995.
Line 1 ( North-South Metro)
Line 1 is of 25 kilometreslength (16 ml) constructed on elevated, at-grade and underground levels with 23 stations, 15 of them underground,and it is the first underground line in India.
Compared to New Delhi Metro, which had the benefit of modern and global resources to build the lines, Kolkata Metro was built with indigenous resources, which fact alone took as much as of 23 years to complete the project’s first phase.
The New Delhi metro came next to Kolkata metro and it was completed in 2002, while by the year 2010 Kolkata Metro was listed as the 17th Zone of Indian Railways.
The rail stations presently serving the Line 1 are
- KaviSubhash metro station (Interchange with New Garia railway station for Sealdah South section Suburban local trains; formerly: New Garia)
- ShahidKhudiram metro station (Formerly: Briji)
- KaviNazrul metro station (Formerly: Garia Bazar)
- Gitanjali metro station (Formerly: Naktala)
- Masterda Surya Sen metro station (Formerly: Bansdroni)
- Netaji metro station (Formerly: Kudghat)
- MahanayakUttam Kumar metro station (Formerly: Tollygunge)
- RabindraSarobar metro station
- Kalighat metro station
- Jatin Das Park metro station
- NetajiBhavan (Formerly: Bhowanipore)
- RabindraSadan metro station
- Maidan metro station (Proposed name: Gostho Pal)
- Park Street metro station
- Esplanade metro station
- ChandniChowk metro station
- Central
- Mahatma Gandhi Road metro station
- Girish Park metro station
- ShobhabazarSutanuti metro station
- Shyambazar metro station
- Belgachhia metro station
- Dum Dum metro station
Future Plan
The Line 1 is for further extensions in the sense it will go uptoDakshineshwar from Dum Dum in the North, which increases the line by 5.2 km. This line will further be extended for another 12.5 km to reach Barrakpore northward.
The stations that are covered in this stretch will be:
- Ma Sarada Devi (Noapara)
- Swami Vivekananda (Baranagar)
- Dakshineswar
Noapara-Barasat Link
The Kolkata Metro includes a project of 18.5 km line from Noapara to Barasat passing through NetajiSubhash Chandra Bose International Ariport and the construction work has already begun on it.
The stations proposed to include in this section will be
- Noapara
- Dum Dum Cantonment
- Jessore Road
- Bimanbandar
- Birati
- Michael Nagar
- New Barrackpore
- Madhyamgram
- Hridaypur
- Barasat
Dum Dum Airport Link
This link is mainly planned to connect the Kolkata Metro with the Airport and this stretch will run through 8.24 km in the Up section and 6.40 km length in the Down section.
The stations that are proposed to be lined up in these sections are given below.
The following stations will be there in the Up section:
- Dum Dum
- Noapara
- Ramakrishna Palli
- Shanti Nagar
- Bimanbandar (Airport).
The following stations will be there in the Down section:
- Bimanbandar (Airport)
- Jessore Road
- Dum Dum Cantonment
- Dum Dum
Joka – B.B.D. Bagh Link
Another part of the Kolkata Metro project would bring out a 16.72 km length from Joka, which is in South Kolkata and BBD Bagh, which is in the Central Kolkata. This part of the project is already under construction by RVNL and the tender is given to Simplex Infrastructures.
This stretch will have the following stations:
- Joka
- Thakurpukur
- Sakherbazar
- BehalaChowrasta
- Behala Bazar
- Taratalla
- Majherhat
- Mominpur
- Kidderpore
- Hastings
- Park Street
- Esplanade
- BBD Bag
In the proposed corridors, Park Street and Esplanade stations will not be the same as with North-South Metro route. Further, Joka –BBD Baghsetion will be connected to North-South services at a place where the forthcoming East West Metro also will meet the other routes, thus enabling the passengers to have choice of taking different trains at this section.
New Garia Airport Link
The requirement of the southern part of Kolkata getting connected to NetajiSubhas Chandra Bose International Airport is addressed by the New Garia – Airport section which will be another 32 km stretch. The construction work on the New Garia – Airport line was steamed off on February 7, 2011 by the Hon. Chief Minister of West Bengal and the project schedule is 6 months period, although the actual work is not begun yet.
This link between NewGaria’sKaviSubhas and the Airport is of a project cost of Rs 400 crores and it will have 24 stations including the following :
- Satyajit Ray Station (Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute)
- JyotindraNandy Station (Mukundapur)
- Sukanta Bhattacharya Station (Kalikapur)
- HemantaMukhopadhyay Station (KasbaGolpark/Ruby Hospital)
- BarunSengupta Station (Science City)
- Gour Kishore Ghosh Station (Chingrighata)
- IT Station (Salt Lake Sector V)
- Kala Kshetra Station (Rajarhat CBD 2)
- Titumir Station (Rajarhat City Centre)
- RabindraTirtha (Rajarhat)
- RitwikGhatak Station (Bantala Road)
- Jai Hind Station (NetajiSubhash Chandra Bose International Airport)