Prime Minister Narendra Modi: “….. Professor Aloke Kumar from Kolkata has mentioned that the British planned the Metro Railway, but could not execute. It is our Engineers and People who have done the work. The Nation is proud of them.”
According to researchers, the idea of having an underwater transportation system on the lines of London was first mooted by the British in 1921. "But the idea did not see the light of the day as soil tests did not yield positive results. They were forced to abandon the idea and the project plan was shelved," Aloke Kumar, Associate Professor of IIM-Calcutta.
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“But the idea did not see the light of the day as soil tests did not yield positive results. They were forced to abandon the idea and the project plan was shelved,” Aloke Kumar, Associate Professor of IIM-Calcutta. Kumar, who had conducted extensive research on railways, said the idea was again pushed in the 1980s by then Railway Minister ABA Ghani Khan Chowdhury.
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According to researchers, the idea of having an underwater transportation system on the lines of London was first mooted by the British in 1921. "But the idea did not see the light of the day as soil tests did not yield positive results. They were forced to abandon the idea and the project plan was shelved," Aloke Kumar, Associate Professor of IIM-Calcutta, told PTI.
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