Nearly 140 people were evacuated from the Bowbazar area of Kolkata on Friday after cracks appeared in at least 10 houses due to tunneling work for the East-West Metro project.
Those evacuated from Bowbazar’s Madan Mitra Lane were shifted to five hotels in nearby localities, a senior Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (KMRCL) official said. More people are likely to be evacuated in the coming days from the localities falling along the metro project site, the official added.
KMRCL officials along with experts rushed to the site to assess the situation.
This is the third incident of houses developing cracks in Bowbazar due to work on the metro project that includes India’s first underwater metro tunnel across the Hooghly river, delaying the project for months.
