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Second underground railway corridor for Kolkata

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Kolkata: The city is set to be the first in the country to have a second underground railway corridor. The project providing for Metro services along an east-west corridor that is to extend underwater across the Hooghly river to Howrah on the other side was ratified at a meeting of the West Bengal Cabinet here on Thursday. The construction work will begin in December next year. Work is expected to be completed in 2013, the State's Chief Secretary, Amit Kiran Deb, said.

The new project, which has been accepted by the Centre as a central sector project, will cost nearly Rs. 5,000 crore. It is to have 12 stations cutting across the city from Salt Lake in the east to Howrah station, he said.

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