The Joka-BBD Bag Metro project which had been caught in
several hurdles has cleared at least one. CESC which was unwilling to allow the
laying of tracks on its Taratala land has given the nod after state
intervention.
The Metro project will require two pillars to be built on
the CESC land in Taratala. The tracks will be laid on 200sq m plot which is at
a distance of 1.5metres from the office building. The site was inspected on
Wednesday by the officials of CESC, state transport department, and Rail Vikas
Nigam (which is the implementing agency for the project) and the work will
start in seven days.
"The building was built in
1965. The entire power distribution for our south-west zone is done from here.
Consumers also pay their bill in cash here," said Prabir Mitra, the chief
legal adviser, CESC. "We were concerned about the safety of the
building."
Experts from IIT Kharagpur will be conducting a study on how to buttress the
CESC building. Sources said the building has already been inspected by separate
teams from Jadavpur University and IIT Delhi both of whom have given different
solutions.
The
state transport department confirmed that they had requested CESC to allow Metro
railways to lay the tracks. They had also requested for a fresh study by the
IIT Kharagpur experts. The cost of shifting utilities like transformers will be
borne by RVNL. "We don't want to
keep the project on hold... so, we agreed to allow the laying of the
tracks," said Mitra of CESC.
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