Kanpur Metro: Construction Work Begins For 3 Underground Stations. (Photo: Metro Rail Today)
Excavation begins for Kanpur Metro’s subterranean Corridor-2 part. Rawatpur underground station’s Diaphragm Wall building marks progress.
The Kanpur Metro Rail Project’s Corridor-2 (between CSA University and Barra-8) may have a 4.10 km (roughly) subterranean phase from Rawatpur to Double Puliya.
On April 1, senior Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC) officers and contracting businesses started excavating the bottom to decrease the panel of the primary Diaphragm Wall (D-Wall) at this part’s Rawatpur underground station.
After the tender was awarded in December 2023, pre-construction work on the portion started, together with soil testing, barricading, utility relocation and so forth. With the beginning of the excavation operation for the D-Wall, the constructing of this phase has progressed to the following degree.
The phase will embrace the development of metro stations in Rawatpur, Kakadeo and Double Puliya. Rawatpur Underground Metro cease could be an necessary cease connecting Kanpur Metro’s two routes, in line with the Times of India. Metro passengers will switch trains at this station to journey from first to second or second to first hall stations.
The D-Wall serves as an underground metro station’s border. It will probably be constructed from small rectangular panels. Furthermore, the D-Wall at Rawatpur Metro Station could be made up of 65 comparable panels of varied sizes.
These Kanpur Metro Corridor-2 underground stations will probably be developed utilising the ‘Top-Down Method,’ which signifies that building will start from the highest and work will proceed down. First, the roof slab will probably be ready, adopted by the development of concourse platform ranges.
This technique is getting used to restrict the affect on visitors as a result of the street barricades will probably be decreased after the primary storey is constructed beneath the bottom. The improvement work beneath floor will proceed, and car visitors will lastly movement easily on the route. This expertise can also be getting used to construct Corridor-1’s underground components.
The UPMRC plans to start operations on each Kanpur Metro corridors in 2024-25, as per reviews. The first hall, which runs from IIT Kanpur to Naubasta, will probably be totally operational by November 2024. The second, which runs from Agriculture University to Barra, will probably be commissioned in December 2025, reviews add.
In addition, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has supplied round 650 million euros of total finance for the Kanpur Metro Rail Project, with the remaining equipped by the central and state governments. The Kanpur Metro Rail Project’s remaining value is anticipated to be round Rs 11,076 crore.
