Metro Railway Kolkata has taken several initiatives to enhance its Non-fare Revenue. Even during the worldwide pandemic, corporate houses have been responding to such initiatives. In one such unique initiative, it has been decided to […]
After discharging duties for over three decades and making the city proud for achieving a breakthrough with India’s first underground transport, the older non-air conditioned rakes of Kolkata Metro Railway have been sent on a […]
Metro Railway resumed services for all on Friday after a gap of 61 days. Officials said the footfall was high during the morning and evening rush hours. A passenger who boarded a train at Esplanade […]
Kolkata Metro will increase the frequency on both the north-south route and in the east-west corridor from tomorrow. The decision was taken after the West Bengal government announced certain relaxations. The Kolkata Metro Railway will run 192 trains in […]
The New Garia-Airport Metro corridor project has gathered momentum with Rahee Infratech bagging the contract to supply and install ballast-less tracks along the Nicco Park-Titumir section. Till now, RVNL was laying tracks along the Ruby-Kavi […]
Signalling tests for East-West Metro’s Sealdah extension is due to start at the end of this month. For this, for the first time a train will be run from Phoolbagan station till Sealdah. The authorities […]
Kolkata Metro will run 62 special trains from Monday, 28th June 2021, considering the increased footfalls of essential staff amid the ongoing restrictions. Before the mid-May restrictions came into force, Metro was running 192 services […]
The West Bengal Transport minister Firhad Hakim on Monday, 14th June 2021, conducted his first meeting with various authorities to expedite the ongoing Metro projects. Around 1pm, Hakim met officials of Metro Railway, RVNL and […]
The Ministry of Steel has permitted Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd to import 5,000 tonnes of steel products for Kolkata Metro rail project. The central government in 2017 instituted a policy favouring domestically-manufactured iron and steel […]
The ongoing restrictions in Kolkata have cast its shadow on some crucial Metro projects that were headed for commissioning early or the middle of next year. Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), implementing most of the […]
Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) has started installation of third rail in Joka–Taratala section of the Joka-BBD Bag Metro corridor. The third rail, made of steel-aluminum composite, is corrosion resistant. Being light-weight, it can be […]
The tunnelling work of East-West Metro was completed on Saturday, (15th May 2021) evening, a day ahead of the scheduled ‘breakthrough’ as engineers revved up the tunnel boring machine to reach the landmark before restrictions […]
Two days of heavy rain delayed tunnel borer Urvi’s planned breakthrough on Thursday, 13th May 2021. Breakthrough is needed at the end of a tunneling when the tunnel boring machine (TBM) is made to punch […]
Afcons has started piling work for the New Garia-Airport Metro’s 3.5km elevated stretch from City Centre II to the airport. On Saturday last week (10th April 2021), pile foundation work was started from City Centre […]
The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) S-616, nicknamed Urvi, deployed for last leg of East-West Metro Tunnelling has now completed half of its journey towards building the final 800m west-bound tunnel. On Tuesday, 6th April, Urvi […]
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