After 36 years of perennial wait, Kolkata got its second metro line as Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal flagged off the first phase of the East-West corridor of the mass transport network on Thursday Feb 13,2020
The East-West corridor will be operational for commuters Friday Feb 14,2020 onwards.
The first phase of the Kolkata East-West Metro corridor is connecting the Sector V of Salt Lake, the IT hub of the city, with the Salt Lake Stadium in the area, covering a 5.3km long stretch.
The commercial services connecting 6 overground stations - Sector V, Karunamoyee, Central Park, City Centre, Bengal Chemical and Salt Lake Stadium stations, began on Friday morning
The Kolkata Metro was the first metro railway in India, opening for commercial services from 1984.
It is presently the fifth-longest operational metro network in India after Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Namma (Bengaluru).
For almost four decades, the sole corridor of Kolkata metro traversed through 24 stations, of which 15 are underground, covering a meagre distance of 27.3km from Noapara to Kavi Subhas
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