India's First Underwater Metro Service | 07 Mar 2024

Source: HT

The Prime Minister inaugurated the Kolkata Metro's Esplanade-Howrah Maidan section, marking the inauguration of India’s first underwater transportation tunnel.

The section, passing below the Hooghly River, showcasing the nation's engineering prowess hosts the deepest Metro station (the Howrah metro station at 30 metres) in India.
The Hooghly River, also known as the Bhagirathi-Hoogly and Kati-Ganga Rivers, is one of the significant rivers in West Bengal. It is a distributary or arm of the Ganges River, about 260 km long. Formed in Murshidabad, where Ganga splits into two parts – while the part flowing through Bangladesh is called the Padma. The other part is the Hooghly.