KOLKATA: Evacuation notices were served to these occupying outdated and dilapidated constructions alongside the western facet of SN Banerjee Road to facilitate tunnelling of the East-West Metro hall, which is scheduled to start out subsequent week.
Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC), the agency enforcing the mission, has additionally initiated mitigation measures in a few of these buildings to forestall subsidence and cracks.
The notice, signed by way of KMRC managing director AK Nandy, learn: “All folks doing industry within/or the adjoining house of 1A S N Banerjee Road are hereby asked to not keep at their premises
throughout the motion of the west-bound TBM of East-West Metro hall mission from 1am of March 28 to 11pm of March 31.”
The final leg of underground tunnelling — the two.45km Esplanade-Sealdah stretch of the 16.6km East-West Metro hall — is keeping engineers of KMRC and ITD ITD-Cementation, the corporate reduced in size to construct the tunnel, on their ft, thanks to the high density of constructions that are not only around 100 — or more — years outdated, but are among the maximum ill-maintained in Kolkata.
In the first segment of evacuation, KMRC will prepare resort keep for 9 households comprising around 40 folks. Some 30 retail outlets and industry institutions will stay closed in a phased means. A similar workout was followed when tunnelling was done beneath Brabourne Road.
The shakiest among the buildings is 1A SN Banerjee Road, which Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) had condemned years in the past, but remains to be occupied by way of 3 offices. The building is falling apart and has been covered up, lest concrete peels off whilst the TBM passes. Hundreds of pedestrians take this path to and from the Esplanade Metro station or walk to offices and retail outlets positioned within the congested town centre. Inside the crumbling structure, intensive propping is being done to forestall subsidence. “The iron props preserving the ceiling and the walls will stay even after tunnelling because the building is in a bad form,” said an engineer.
Among the opposite buildings the place the brief evacuation notices had been pasted 2 SN Banerjee Road, the heritage Regal Cinema building on 4 SN Banerjee Road and Kolkata’s oldest Mughlai Paratha address, Anadi Cabin (9A Jawaharlal Nehru Road).
In all, 675 buildings alongside the Esplanade-Sealdah alignment are on the TBM’s influence zone (40 metres). KMRC had commissioned a building situation survey (BCS) to test the stableness of 224 of those constructions and located 86 to be vital and decided to evacuate them in levels.
Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC), the agency enforcing the mission, has additionally initiated mitigation measures in a few of these buildings to forestall subsidence and cracks.
The notice, signed by way of KMRC managing director AK Nandy, learn: “All folks doing industry within/or the adjoining house of 1A S N Banerjee Road are hereby asked to not keep at their premises
throughout the motion of the west-bound TBM of East-West Metro hall mission from 1am of March 28 to 11pm of March 31.”
The final leg of underground tunnelling — the two.45km Esplanade-Sealdah stretch of the 16.6km East-West Metro hall — is keeping engineers of KMRC and ITD ITD-Cementation, the corporate reduced in size to construct the tunnel, on their ft, thanks to the high density of constructions that are not only around 100 — or more — years outdated, but are among the maximum ill-maintained in Kolkata.
In the first segment of evacuation, KMRC will prepare resort keep for 9 households comprising around 40 folks. Some 30 retail outlets and industry institutions will stay closed in a phased means. A similar workout was followed when tunnelling was done beneath Brabourne Road.
The shakiest among the buildings is 1A SN Banerjee Road, which Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) had condemned years in the past, but remains to be occupied by way of 3 offices. The building is falling apart and has been covered up, lest concrete peels off whilst the TBM passes. Hundreds of pedestrians take this path to and from the Esplanade Metro station or walk to offices and retail outlets positioned within the congested town centre. Inside the crumbling structure, intensive propping is being done to forestall subsidence. “The iron props preserving the ceiling and the walls will stay even after tunnelling because the building is in a bad form,” said an engineer.
Among the opposite buildings the place the brief evacuation notices had been pasted 2 SN Banerjee Road, the heritage Regal Cinema building on 4 SN Banerjee Road and Kolkata’s oldest Mughlai Paratha address, Anadi Cabin (9A Jawaharlal Nehru Road).
In all, 675 buildings alongside the Esplanade-Sealdah alignment are on the TBM’s influence zone (40 metres). KMRC had commissioned a building situation survey (BCS) to test the stableness of 224 of those constructions and located 86 to be vital and decided to evacuate them in levels.
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