Overview

• Railway Board executives toured Kavi Subhash station on Thursday to evaluate cracks in four Up-platform columns that forced the July 28 service suspension.
• Metro Railway Kolkata has started dismantling the Up platform’s roof sheeting and telecom equipment ahead of full column and slab removal.
• An e-tender outlining comprehensive reconstruction work—covering platform slab, columns and roofing—will accept bids from August 5 to 19.
• Blue Line trains are running only between Shahid Khudiram and Dakshineswar while services on the Orange Line remain uninterrupted.
• The nine-month reconstruction plan responds to long-standing design and soil-assessment flaws worsened by record monsoon rains.