The Kolkata Metro Railway Corporation Ltd (KMRCL) on Thursday initiated the process of paying compensation cheques to the owners of houses and shops affected by the ongoing metro tunneling project in the city’s Bowbazar area.
Some of recipients of the cheques claimed that the compensation amount was meagre and that it long for the authorities to set the process in motion.
Several families were displaced in Bowbazar’s Madan Dutta Lane in October after their houses developed cracks due to subsidence triggered by tunneling work of the East-West Metro. The KMRCL is the implementing agency of the infrastructure project.
