{"id":569967,"date":"2023-04-15T11:39:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T06:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=569967"},"modified":"2023-04-15T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T07:55:20","slug":"kolkata-metro-runs-through-tunnel-below-hooghly-first-in-india-to-complete-under-river-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kolkata-metro-runs-through-tunnel-below-hooghly-first-in-india-to-complete-under-river-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata Metro runs through tunnel below Hooghly, first in India to complete under-river journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata Metro Wednesday (April 12) became the first metro rail in the country to make an under-river journey as its rakes passed through an underwater tunnel below the Hooghly river.<\/p>\n<p>Kolkata Metro general manager P Uday Kumar Reddy travelled from Mahakaran to Howrah Maidan station in rake No. MR-612, which crossed the Hooghly river at 11:55 am. Additional general manager and Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited (KMRCL) MD H N Jaiswal, as well as other senior officers, accompanied him during this journey. Reddy offered puja at the Howrah station once the rake reached there. Later, rake No MR- 613 was also taken to the Howrah Maidan station. Flowers were sprinkled and coconuts were broken to welcome the rakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata Metro Wednesday (April 12) became the first metro rail in the country to make an under-river journey as its rakes passed through an underwater tunnel below the Hooghly river. Kolkata Metro general manager P Uday Kumar Reddy travelled from Mahakaran to Howrah Maidan station in rake No. MR-612, which crossed the Hooghly river at 11:55 am. Additional general manager and Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited (KMRCL) MD H N Jaiswal, as well as other senior officers, accompanied him during this journey. Reddy offered puja at the Howrah station once the rake reached there. Later, rake No MR- 613 was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}