Kolkata Metro East-West corridor work: IIT expert team reviews site of ground subsidence in Bowbazar area
Kolkata Metro: Recently, experts from IIT-Roorkee reviewed the site at the Bowbazar area where cracks had developed in homes. The experts were roped in by the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) for technical consultations in connection with an incident of soil subsidence during the East-West line’s construction. A KMRC official was quoted in a PTI report saying that the team from IIT-Roorkee also assessed the preventive steps taken in the wake of the mishap. On Sunday, these experts inspected the affected houses in the Bowbazar area located in central Kolkata. Recently, at least nine houses developed cracks in Bowbazar during the East-West Metro line’s tunneling work.
