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On Dec 25 to handle worker surge, Kolkata Metro to expand administrations

by Swara Boseon

Administrations will be accessible at regular intervals during the morning and night top hours

Envisioning hefty surge of suburbanites on Christmas, the Kolkata Metro Railway has chosen to run 216 administrations from 7 am to 10.30 pm on December 25, an authority said on Tuesday.

While the main assistance will begin from the two finishes – Dum and Kavi Subhash at 7 am and from Noapara at 7.09 am, the last help will leave Kavi Subhash and Dum at 9.30 pm and from Noapara at 9.25 pm, he said.

Administrations will be accessible at regular intervals during the morning and night top hours.

The Metro official said that e-passes won’t be needed for senior residents, ladies and kids under 15 years, yet these should be delivered by different travelers between 3 pm and 8 pm on Christmas.

In the interim, the Metro Railway will lead preliminary of its recently developed Noapara-Dakshineswar area on Wednesday.

Following effective preliminaries, investigation by the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) will be directed according to rules before leeway is gotten for running business administrations in the part, the authority said.

The nation’s first underground railroad reaches out from Noapara to Kavi Subhash station on the bustling north-south hub of the city over a length of 27.22 kms, with 15.70 kms of underground area.

The 4-km stretch among Noapara and Dakshineswar is generally on raised structure, the authority said.

The Metro Railway has additionally chosen to bring to the table nine of its stations across its north-south hub and the East West Metro for marking to produce more non-admission income, he said

The stations which have been offered for marking are Belgachia, Sovabazar-Sutanuti, Chandni Chowk, Phoolbagan, Bengal Chemical, City Center, Central Park, Karunamoyee and the destined to-be-introduced Baranagar.

Salt Lake Sector-V and Salt Lake Stadium have just been co-marked, he said.

Income of the misfortune causing Kolkata Metro to have diminished inferable from the COVID-19 pandemic and related wellbeing conventions, which have prompted lower footfall contrasted with normal occasions.

In November, Dakshineswar Metro preliminary may begin

by Ragini Singhon

Preliminaries and tests for the Dakshineswar Metro are probably going to begin on November 15.

The trials along the 4-km expansion of the city’s current north-south stretch to Dakshineswar is a preface to its dispatch at some point in December, said authorities.

The preliminaries will begin with oneself worked motor sudden spike in demand for November 15 and afterward there will be a joint testing of the framework by Metro Railway and Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL).

Metro Railway, which runs the Kavi Subhas-Noapara Metro administrations and the shortened Sector V-Phoolbagan stretch of the East-West Metro, will be working the new segment. RVNL is the executing organization of the all-inclusive hall.

Before the preliminaries start, the critical Train Protection Warning System (TPWS) hardware — an advanced programming that forestalls mishaps — may show up from Germany during the primary seven day stretch of November.

These issues were examined at a video-meeting between the offices on Tuesday.

Indeed, even as Metro Railway has applied for review by the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) for the 4-km expansion, the significant mishap avoidance innovation, which was expected to be conveyed by Siemens from Germany in March, ran into lockdown limitations.

A report of the preliminaries and the joint testing attempted by Metro Railway and RVNL to check the segment’s availability should be shipped off CRS’ Lucknow base camp before it consents to examine and gives the date of visit.

Authorities said the preliminaries and testing shouldn’t take a lot of time since this was just an expansion of the current 27-km north-south passage.

“The TPWS programming might be conveyed at some point one week from now. It will take four or five days for its establishment in the tracks. After this, we will check the product’s exhibition,” a senior RVNL official told TOI on Wednesday.