{"id":637984,"date":"2024-03-07T09:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T03:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=637984"},"modified":"2024-03-07T10:12:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T04:42:58","slug":"pm-modi-launches-indias-first-underwater-metro-service-in-bengal-5-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pm-modi-launches-indias-first-underwater-metro-service-in-bengal-5-points\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi launches India&#8217;s first underwater metro service in Bengal: 5 points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section of Kolkata Metro&#8217;s East-West corridor on Wednesday, branded as India&#8217;s first underwater metro service. <\/p>\n<p>Built at a cost of Rs 4,965 crore, the engineering marvel is part of the 16.6 km of the East-West Metro corridor. The project is being executed by Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited (KMRCL). <\/p>\n<p>Here are five things to know about India&#8217;s first underwater metro route: <\/p>\n<p>1) Spanning a 4.8-km stretch between Howrah Maidan and Esplanade, the route connects key areas such as the IT hub Salt Lake Sector V. The project is India&#8217;s first-ever transportation project where trains will ply under a river &#8211; Hooghly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section of Kolkata Metro&#8217;s East-West corridor on Wednesday, branded as India&#8217;s first underwater metro service. Built at a cost of Rs 4,965 crore, the engineering marvel is part of the 16.6 km of the East-West Metro corridor. The project is being executed by Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited (KMRCL). Here are five things to know about India&#8217;s first underwater metro route: 1) Spanning a 4.8-km stretch between Howrah Maidan and Esplanade, the route connects key areas such as the IT hub Salt Lake Sector V. The project is India&#8217;s first-ever transportation project [&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":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637984","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=637984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}