Updated Feb 04, 2021 | 14:54 IST
The Noapara-Barasat corridor via airport has come out as a profit for the 2021-22 fiscal in the budget. Election year in West Bengal sees huge metro annual budget allocation | Photo Credit: PTI
Kolkata: There has been an increased allocation in the budget for Kolkata’s metro projects this time. The provision is of Rs 2,263 crore against 2020’s Rs 1,542 crore.
The Noapara-Barasat corridor via airport has come out as a profit for the 2021-22 fiscal in the budget. But percentage-wise, a considerable amount has come for the Joka-Esplanade metro project that had got just around Rs 100 crore in the last budget.
Flyovers at Ruby and Avishikta crossings The CMDA is also in talks with RVNL, which is building the New Garia-Airport metro corridor, to build a footbridge at the Ruby crossing
The CMDA is mulling to build two short flyovers above the Ruby and Avishikta crossings instead of one running over the two, as was proposed earlier, an engineer of the organisation said on Tuesday.
“A traffic survey of the two crossings has revealed that separate flyovers will be more beneficial to motorists than one long flyover,” the engineer said.
Both flyovers will be about one kilometre in length.
The old proposal was of one long flyover that would stretch from near the Ambedkar bridge on EM Bypass till the Prince Anwar Shah Road connector crossing.