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Which city in India will have the first underwater metro?

Kolkata is set to welcome India's first underwater metro train which will allow commuters to travel across the Hooghly river which separates West Bengal's capital from Howrah.



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KOLKATA: Trains will run every 12 minutes when East-West Metro starts its under-river run this December, KMRC MD V K Srivastava said on Wednesday. KMRC, the implementing agency of the East-West Metro corridor, is chasing a December 2023 deadline for the 4.8km Esplanade-Howrah Maidan run.

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Then, Kolkata's metro system – the oldest in the country – revealed its first ever underwater line, which travels under the Hooghly River.

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East West Metro Tunnel is a constructed underwater river tunnel of Kolkata Metro in Kolkata, West Bengal.

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To match river depth and the tunnel's gradient, Afcons also had to build India's deepest Metro station – 30m below Howrah railway station – and the country's deepest ventilation shaft at 43. 5m under the ground.

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Ø 1984 – ON 24TH OCTOBER, METRO RAILWAY, KOLKATA, INDIA'S FIRST METRO WAS COMMISSIONED. DISTANCE OF 3.4 KMS. STARTED FUNCTIONING BETWEEN 17 STATIONS. (PREVIOUSLY TOLLYGUNGE) TO KAVINAZRUL COMMISSIONED.

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There are currently seven cities in India which are served by a metro system, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata and Mumbai.

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India's Deepest Underground Metro Station In Pune - 33.1M Deep Non Stop Coverage From Bottom To Top - YouTube. Civil Court Interchange Metro Station in Pune is India's Deepest Underground Metro Station. It is 33.1M deep.

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The Seikan Tunnel (Japanese: ??????, Seikan Tonneru or ????, Seikan Zuido) is a 53.85 km (33.46 mi) dual-gauge railway tunnel in Japan, with a 23.3 km (14.5 mi) portion under the seabed of the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Aomori Prefecture on the main Japanese island of Honshu from the northern island of Hokkaido.

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The project will be developed at a cost of more than Rs80bn ($967m), according to Times Now. KMRC general manager civil Shailesh Kumar said: “The ongoing underwater tunnel project is likely to be completed by December 2023.” In 1984, Kolkata Metro became operational.

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The Delhi Metro network consists of 10 colour-coded lines serving 256 stations with a total length of 350.42 kilometres (217.74 mi). It is the largest and busiest metro rail system in India, and the second oldest after the Kolkata Metro.

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The then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bidhan Chandra Roy, reconceived the idea of an underground railway for Kolkata from 1949 to 1950.

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The Shanghai Metro is the world's longest metro network at 803 kilometres (499 mi) and has the highest annual ridership at 2.83 billion trips. The New York City Subway has the greatest number of stations with 472. As of 2023, the country with the most metro systems is China, with 45 in operation.

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According to the analysis by RMSI, some critical properties and road networks in Mumbai, Kochi, Mangalore, Chennai, Vishakapatnam, and Thiruvananthapuram will be drowned by 2050 because of the rise in sea level.

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Line 1, or the Blue line, of Kolkata Metro (Bengali: ?????? ???????) has a total length of 31.365 kilometres (19.489 mi) serving 26 stations, of which 15 are underground, 9 are elevated and 2 at-grade. It uses the 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge tracks.

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