Metro Railway, Kolkata, is the owner and operator of

Kolkata Metro The Kolkata Metro is a Urban rail transit in India, rapid transit system serving the city of Kolkata and the Kolkata metropolitan area, Kolkata Metropolitan Region in West Bengal, India. Opened in 1984, it was the first operational rapid trans ...

, the oldest metro system of India. On 29 December 2010, it became the 17th zone of the

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, operated by the Ministry of Railways.

History

In 1969, the Metropolitan Transport Project was formed under

. In 1971, MTP proposed to build 5 rapid transit lines for Kolkata. With help of

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specialists (Lenmetroproekt) and East German engineers, prepared a master plan to provide metro lines for the city of Kolkata, totaling a route length of 97.5 km in 1971.

Lines

Currently it owns and operates Blue Line, Purple Line, Orange Line and operates Green Line. It will operate other lines (Yellow, Pink) after their completion. From July 2019, KMRC handed over the operations of Green Line to Metro Railway, Kolkata.

Construction

Under Metro Railway, Kolkata

It is currently constructing the Yellow Line. It is a 16.876 km long line from Noapara to Barasat.

Total sanctioned projects

*No. of projects: 6 *Total length: *Sanctioned cost: *Expenditure: (up to March 2019) *Budget outlay (2019-20):

Departments

# Accounts # Electrical # Vigilance # Traffic # Engineering # Signalling # Personnel # Medical # Stores

Magazine

Metro Chetna, a e-magazine published in Hindi, every 3 months by Metro Railway, Kolkata. It was first published in 2017, and discontinued in 2018.

Durga Puja arrangements

Some special arrangements and services are made especially during Durga Puja and Depavali every year. These are- * Greeting passengers along with commercial displays * Distribution of pamphlets among pandal hoppers showing names of important puja pandals around the 24 stations * Affixing of posters at earmarked locations inside 24 stations displaying names of important Puja pandals * Vinyl stickers conveying festive greetings * Placement of directional boards, showing names of well-known puja pandals for better crowd management

References

{{coord missing, West Bengal 1969 establishments in West Bengal Zones of Indian Railways Kolkata Metro