Archive · 11 Jun 2025
Encroachment Delays Kolkata Metro Power Supply Project
The Kolkata Metro is facing delays in building a power station to provide electricity to the metro.
This is because people have taken over the land near the station and use it as a bus stand.
Metro officials visited the site, and the local officials are in discussion with the bus owners to solve the issue.
The goal is to clear the land to build the power station.
Kolkata Metro's power substation project is delayed due to land encroachment.
Land near Masterda Surya Sen station is used as an unauthorized bus stand.
Metro officials, including the General Manager, inspected the site.
Local influential persons are preventing the removal of the bus stand.
Discussions are underway to find a resolution between involved parties.
- Who
- Kolkata Metro Railway and local individuals/bus owners.
- What
- The commissioning of a power substation is delayed.
- When
- June 11, 2025
- Where
- Kolkata, near Masterda Surya Sen metro station.
- Why
- Land encroachment is delaying the construction of a power substation.
Bus Owners/Influential Persons
Kolkata Metro
Land Use
Bus Owners/Influential Persons
Local influential persons and bus owners are preventing the Metro from reclaiming the land.
Kolkata Metro
Kolkata Metro wants to use the land to build a power substation for uninterrupted electricity supply.
- Location
- Kolkata
- Affected Station
- Masterda Surya Sen metro station
- Date of Report
- June 11, 2025
- Affected Metro Line
- North-South corridor
- Project Goal
- Uninterrupted electricity supply