{"id":7677,"date":"2020-01-28T10:47:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T10:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7677"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T10:47:23","slug":"indias-first-underwater-metro-to-be-launched-in-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indias-first-underwater-metro-to-be-launched-in-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"India’s first underwater metro to be launched in Kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kolkata Metro Rail Corp. expects to complete its East-West\nproject, which runs partly under the city\u2019s iconic Hooghly river by March 2022\nafter a delay of several years doubled costs. About 40% of total transport\ndemand will be tackled by these two metro services. It will be a relief for\nenvironmental pollution and the city should be much more decongested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new line is expected to carry about 9,00,000 people\ndaily, \u2014 roughly 20% of the city\u2019s population \u2014 and will take less than a\nminute to cross a 520-meter underwater tunnel. Depending on the time of day, it\ntakes some 20 minutes to use the ferry and anywhere upward of an hour to cross\nthe Howrah bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kolkata Metro Rail Corp. expects to complete its East-West project, which runs partly under the city\u2019s iconic Hooghly river by March 2022 after a delay of several years doubled costs. About 40% of total transport demand will be tackled by these two metro services. It will be a relief for environmental pollution and the city […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[884,66],"class_list":["post-7677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2020","tag-kolkata-current-affairs","tag-railway-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7679,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions\/7679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}