page_title: Kolkata Metro Line 4
section_title: Progress of Dum Dum Cantonment metro station
hierarchical_section_title: Kolkata Metro Line 4 / Progress of Dum Dum Cantonment metro station
caption_attribution_description: English: Dum Dum Cantonment metro station U/C
context_page_description: The Line 4 or Noapara - Barasat Line of the Kolkata Metro is an 16.876 km long metro route from Noapara to Barasat in North 24 Parganas, which is under construction. It is being built by RVNL. It will run mostly at elevated viaducts but will descend underground after Jessore Road Station and will again ascend above after New Barrackpore Station. It will have an interchange station at the Dum Dum Airport with line 6 of the Kolkata metro. The future of the project beyond New Barrackpore is still in darkness due to land acquisition problem. After New Barrackpore Station, the metro route will pass through a land owned by a private company. When the project was sanctioned, then railway minister Mamata Banerjee vested this land for metro project but the company moved to High court against it making the future of the project beyond New Barrackpore in darkness. Till now no solution came. The construction company L&T was given the tender for construction of metro viaduts between New Barrackpore and Barasat but due to no hope of getting rid of land acquisition problem, they walked out from the construction.
context_section_description: An amount of Rs 127 crore contract to build this station along with a mostly at-grade 2.16 km section from the Bagjola Canal to the existing ramp of the Airport Circular Railway track was awarded to Senbo Engineering all the way back in June 2011. Since then, the station’s civil structure has been built, but work for the at-grade track section could not be started due to land acquisition issues along the line’s proposed alignment. But the rehabilitation work has completed, and the work is going smoothly. Recently girders were placed over Eastern Railway tracks.
caption: Dum Dum Cantonment metro station
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