The Line 4, or Noapara Barasat Line of the Kolkata Metro. It is a 18.50 km long metro from Noapara to Barasat is under construction, It is being built by RVNL. It is a fully elevated corridor. It will have an interchange station at the airport with line 6 of the Kolkata metro. The future of the project beyond airport is still in darkness due to land problem. After Kolkata airport the metro route will pass through a land owned by a private company. When the project was sanctioned, then railway minister Mamtaa Banerjee vested this land for metro project but the company moved to High court against it making the future of the project beyond airport in darkness. Till now so solution came. The construction company L&T was given the tender for construction but due to no hope of getting rid of land problem beyond airport, they walked out from the construction. In Barasat, heavy traffic jam is a burning problem for the citizens. Metro project would have given them a breath. But still now no hope arised to the citizens. However, the future of the alignment beyond airport is still uncertain.
As per latest news dated 28/03/17, construction work has started between noapara - Jessore road. Rehabilitation of all families living on railway land, demolition and removing of debris has been completed on 26/03/17. The construction authority is hopeful to construct 37 pillars on this land within nine months. On October 2017, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) will hand over land to the construction authority for construction of an underground station. The metro railway is expected to open the noapara - airport section by June 2018.
After commissioning the metro line upto airport, the construction work will start towards barasat. According to metro railway, there is no encroachment till Madhayamgram. But there are encroachments after Madhayamgram to Barasat. They are hopeful to carry out the construction work till Madhayamgram.
An amount of Rs 127 crore contract to build this station along with a mostly at-grade 2.16 km section from the Baghjola Canal to the existing ramp of the Airport Circular Railway track was awarded to Senbo Engineering all the way back in June 2011. Since then, the station’s civil structure has been built, but work for the at-grade track section has not been able to commence due to land acquisition issues on a horrific scale along the line’s proposed alignment.
But recently the rehabilitation work has started and as per news the work will begin shortly.
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