{"id":8628,"date":"2023-04-15T02:43:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T21:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8628"},"modified":"2025-03-29T04:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:39:24","slug":"indias-first-underwater-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indias-first-underwater-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s First Underwater Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About India&#8217;s First Underwater Metro:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>part of Kolkata Metro\u2019s East-West\u00a0 Corridor.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>passes under the Hooghly River<\/strong> in the city&#8217;s northeast, with the <strong>tunnel 13 meter below the riverbed<\/strong> and <strong>33 meter below ground level<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Total <strong>length of the tunnel: 520 meter<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>forms part of the 4.8 kms underground section<\/strong> from <strong>Howrah Maidan to Esplanade<\/strong> stations.<\/li>\n<li>Once this stretch is open then <strong>Howrah will be the deepest Metro station<\/strong> (33 meters below the surface) in the country.<\/li>\n<li>The metro is <strong>expected to cover the 520-meter stretch<\/strong> under Hooghly river <strong>in 45 seconds<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The tunnel will <strong>have<\/strong> <strong>exists for emergencies like earthquakes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Which is the largest metro in India?<\/h3>\n<p>As of 2021, Delhi National Capital Region had the largest operational metro network in India with rail length of 348.5 kilometers. It was followed by Hyderabad with 69.2 kilometers and Bengaluru with 56.1 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/videos\/toi-original\/indias-first-underwater-metro-successfully-runs-under-hooghly-river-kolkata\/videoshow\/99501560.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India&#8217;s first underwater metro successfully runs under Hooghly river, Kolkata<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s first Underwater Metro is a part of Kolkata Metro\u2019s East-West  Corridor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}