Tunnelling for East West Metro project completed
The Hindu
The project will connect twin cities of Howrah and Kolkata through an underground tunnel
The tunnelling for the mega infrastructure East West Metro project here has been completed. On Saturday, the tunnel boring machine, ‘Urvi’, pierced the diaphragm to complete the Howrah-bound tunnel. “With this breakthrough the entire TBM tunnelling for the Kolkata East West Metro Project is completed. The stretch was difficult for the work as it had century old buildings. This challenging tunnel drive of 800 m has been completed successfully amidst this pandemic situation following COVID-19 protocol,” a press release by PIB said on Sunday. East West Metro is a mega infrastructure project that will connect the twin cities of Howrah and Kolkata through an underground tunnel below the Hooghly river bed.More Related News