Motilal Shaw, who runs a small business in the narrow Durga Pithuri Lane of Bowbazar in Central Kolkata, has been shuttling between hotel rooms and his home for the last three years. He has been displaced twice — first in 2019 and then again this year — after his house developed cracks when work on building an underground metro tunnel started.
The 10.8-km tunnel, with a small section running below the Hooghly, will be part of the 16.5-km East-West corridor connecting Sector V in Salt Lake City with Howrah Maidan.
The Shaws are among several such families in Bowbazar area who, over the last three years, have had to vacate their houses after the structures developed cracks,
