Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section of Kolkata Metro’s East-West corridor on Wednesday, heralding India’s first venture into underwater metro services, which is deemed as an engineering marvel.
The Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section, a groundbreaking addition to the metropolis’ transportation network and touted to be the first transportation tunnel “under any mighty river in India”, will have the deepest metro station in the country — the Howrah Metro station.
