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Kolkata Metro
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Overview
Locale Kolkata, West Bengal,  India
Transit type Rapid Transit
Number of lines 1 (Operational)
5 (Under Construction)
Number of stations

24 Stations (Line 1/ North South Metro)
12 Stations (Line 2/ East West Metro)
12 Stations (Line 3/ Joka - B.B.D. Bagh)
9 Stations (Line 4/Noapara - Barasat)
11 Stations (Line 5/ Baranagar - Barrackpore)

23 Stations (Line 6/ Airport - New Garia)
Daily ridership Over 650,000
Chief executive

MC ChauhanGeneral Manager (Metro Railway, Kolkata)

MC chauhan, Chairman (KMRC)
Headquarters

Metro Railway, Kolkata Head Office - Metro Rail Bhavan, 33/1 J.L. Nehru Road, Kolkata - 700071

Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Head Office - HRBC Complex, KMRCL Bhawan, 2nd & 3rd Floor, Munsi Premchand Sarani, Kolkata - 700021
Website
Operation
Began operation 24 October 1984; 33 years ago (24 October 1984)
Operator(s)

Metro Railway, Kolkata, 17th Railway Zone of Indian Railways, Operated by Ministry of Railways

Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. Undertaken by Govt. of India
Number of vehicles 27
Train length

8 Coaches (Line 1, Line 3, Line 4, Line 5, Line 6 )

6 Coaches (Line 2 )
Headway 5, 6, 8, 10, 15 Minutes
Technical
System length

27.22 km ( Line 1, Operational)
31.55 km (Line 2, Under Construction)
17.75 km (Line 3, Under Construction)
18 km (Line 4, Under Construction)
29.10 km (Line 6, Under Construction)

Total Length of all lines after completion - 140 km
Track gauge 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
(Broad gauge) For Line 1, Line 3, Line 4, Line 5 and Line 6
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in)
(Standard gauge) For Line 2
Electrification 750 V DC Third Rail
Average speed 55-60 KMPH

24 Stations (Line 1/ North South Metro)
12 Stations (Line 2/ East West Metro)
12 Stations (Line 3/ Joka - B.B.D. Bagh)
9 Stations (Line 4/Noapara - Barasat)
11 Stations (Line 5/ Baranagar - Barrackpore)

MC ChauhanGeneral Manager (Metro Railway, Kolkata)

Metro Railway, Kolkata Head Office - Metro Rail Bhavan, 33/1 J.L. Nehru Road, Kolkata - 700071

Metro Railway, Kolkata, 17th Railway Zone of Indian Railways, Operated by Ministry of Railways

8 Coaches (Line 1, Line 3, Line 4, Line 5, Line 6 )

27.22 km ( Line 1, Operational)
31.55 km (Line 2, Under Construction)
17.75 km (Line 3, Under Construction)
18 km (Line 4, Under Construction)
29.10 km (Line 6, Under Construction)

The Kolkata Metro is a public sector undertaking organization and a rapid transit system serving the city of Kolkata and the districts of South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas and will soon serve Howrah in the Indian state of West Bengal. The network currently consists of one operational line of 27.22 km from Noapara to Kavi Subhash with five other lines in various phases of construction. The Kolkata Metro was the first metro railway in India, opening for commercial services from 1984. On 29 December 2010, Metro Railway, Kolkata became the 17th zone of the Indian Railways, operated by the Ministry of Railways. There are 300 metro services daily carrying over 650,000 passengers making it the second busiest metro system in India.

The then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, first conceived the idea of building an Underground Railway for Kolkata in early 1950s. A survey was done by a team of French experts, but nothing concrete came of this. Efforts to solve the problem by augmenting the existing fleet of public transport vehicles hardly helped, since roads accounted for only 4.2% of the surface area in Kolkata, compared with 25% in Delhi and even 30% in other cities. With the goal of finding alternative solutions to alleviate the suffering of commuters, the Metropolitan Transport Project (Railways) (MTP) was set up in 1969. The MTP (Rlys), with help of Soviet specialists (Lenmetroproekt) and East German engineers, prepared a master plan to provide five rapid-transit (metro) lines for the city of Kolkata, totalling a route length of 97.5 km in 1971. However, only three were selected for construction. These were:


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