With the city gripping in festive fervour, the Kolkata Metro Railway has strengthened security arrangements at key Metro stations, including Esplanade, Park Street, Maidan, Rabindra Sadan, Dum Dum and Dakshineswar.
Facing congestion challenges on the roads, the City of Joy is crawling at snail’s pace, revealed a study on urban mobility patterns across Kolkata with comparison to Tier-II cities like Durgapur and Dhanbad.
A massive fire broke out in a food stall at Esplanade this morning, causing major traffic disruption in the area.
The Eastern Railway is to take traffic and power blocks for four hours on six days including two days in the month of July and four days in August.
The stretch is yet to be readied with the signalling system. The trial runs are likely to be done on the ‘one train on one line' system.
“A short loop is to be constructed from Esplanade to Maidan,” informed an official of the state transport department.
Although the festivities had already began shortly after Mahalaya last Saturday, the crowd on Sashti evening broke all records of the previous evenings.
But having repeatedly pulled up her party cadres for demanding “cut money” in connection with projects under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, she has now deflected the focus to the black money that, she alleges, has been siphoned off by the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Specially made barricades will be put to use to deal with the crowd.
According to sources in Kolkata Metro, the new design includes the elevated tracks running till Mominpore and going underground thereafter, passing through Kidderpore, Victoria Memorial Hall and Park Street areas, before finally reaching Esplanade.
