Patna: PMCH metro station to be underground; two gates will be in campus
India Today
The Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) will soon get metro connectivity and the planned station will be constructed underground. Two gates for entry and exit would be located inside the campus of PMCH.
Patna Metro's planned station at PMCH, originally proposed to be built on an elevated structure, will now be constructed underground and two gates for exit or entry would be located inside the campus of the institution which is undergoing a major infrastructure revamp, officials said on Sunday.
The 31-km-long Patna Metro rail project, comprising the Danapur-Mithapur-Khemni Chak corridor (Line-1) and Patna Railway Station-Pataliputra Bus Terminal corridor (Line-2), is expected to benefit over a million passengers from the Bihar capital and will also reduce the number of vehicles and ease congestion, the DMRC said in a statement.
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is assisting the Patna Metro Rail Corporation (PMRC) in the construction of the metro lines in the ancient city.
The Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), a distinguished medical institution of Patna, will soon get metro connectivity, as the upcoming PMCH Metro Station under the Patna Metro rail project "will pass beneath the hospital premises," the DMRC said.
This was much required as the metro station will provide seamless connectivity to people who would come to PMCH for their medical requirements. The PMCH Metro Station will be a part of the 14.45 km-long Patna Railway Station-Pataliputra Bus Terminal Corridor (Line-2) of the PMRC, the officials said.
The PMCH campus is located on the banks of river Ganga on one side and faces the old Ashok Rajpath on the other side. The historic institution, originally christened as the Prince of Wales Medical College, was established in 1925, to commemorate the visit of the then Prince of Wales to Patna in 1921.
As part of an infrastructure revamp plan, a 5,462-bed hospital complex will come up at the old PMCH site at a cost of Rs 5,540 crore, and the project is expected to be completed in seven years.
