Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation no to E-W shaft shift from Wellington

KOLKATA: The KMRC Board has turned down the proposal to abandon the East-West Metro ventilation shaft at Raja Subodh Mullick Square. On Friday, Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) convened a meeting with ITD officials to share the views of its board of directors on the decisions taken on the way forward. The board wants ITD to find alternative ways to link the vent shaft because the time and the crores of public funds spent on the shaft construction must be accounted for, especially since the primary funding agency for the project is Jica.

In tandem with the National Building Code of India and the US-based National Fire Protection Association rules, KMRC Board has approved an evacuation shaft on Bowbazar’s Durga Pituri Lane to replace the first three contentious cross passages from the Sealdah side. Construction of cross passage 2, below Bowbazar’s Madan Dutta Lane, had caused the third East-West Metro-related subsidence at Bowbazar on October 14. There are eight passages planned along the Esplanade-Sealdah section.