{"id":578087,"date":"2023-05-20T11:20:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T05:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=578087"},"modified":"2023-05-20T12:10:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T06:40:38","slug":"atmanirbhar-underwater-metro-in-kolkata-aims-to-hit-the-rails-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/atmanirbhar-underwater-metro-in-kolkata-aims-to-hit-the-rails-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Atmanirbhar&#8217; underwater metro in Kolkata aims to hit the rails in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s first underwater metro in Kolkata, an example of &#8216;Atmanirbhar Bharat&#8217;, for which a challenging task was done by Indian engineers, is expected to be open for commuters by the end of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities have constructed a tunnel under the river Hooghly with an internal diameter of 5.55 meters and external diameters of 6.1 meters. The construction of the tunnel is completed with the help of a tunnel-boring machine (TBM)<\/p>\n<p>Tunnels under the bed of river Hooghly, running 32 metres below water level is considered to be an engineering marvel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s first underwater metro in Kolkata, an example of &#8216;Atmanirbhar Bharat&#8217;, for which a challenging task was done by Indian engineers, is expected to be open for commuters by the end of 2023. The authorities have constructed a tunnel under the river Hooghly with an internal diameter of 5.55 meters and external diameters of 6.1 meters. The construction of the tunnel is completed with the help of a tunnel-boring machine (TBM) Tunnels under the bed of river Hooghly, running 32 metres below water level is considered to be an engineering marvel.<\/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":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578087","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=578087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}