Jyotirindra Nandi metro station

Jyotirindra Nandi Metro Station
Kolkata Metro station
Jyotirindra Nandi Metro Station
Location	Next to Metro Cash and Carry, E.M. Bypass, Purbalok, Mukundapur, Kolkata - 700099
Coordinates	22.495915°N 88.398667°E / 22.495915; 88.398667
Platforms	side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
History
Opened	Under Construction. Expected to open in December 2023.
Services
Route map Sealdah South lines New Garia Depot Kavi Subhash  Line 1  Line 1 Sealdah South lines Satyajit Ray Jyotirindra Nath Nandi Panchanangram Canal Kavi Sukanta Rashbehari Avenue Hemanta Mukherjee VIP Bazaar Ritwik Ghatak Storm Water Outlet Canal Barun Sengupta Beliaghata Captain Bhery Eastern Metropolitan Bypass Gour Kishore Ghosh Nicco Park 3rd Avenue Salt Lake Sector-V  Line 2  Line 2 Technopolis Keshtopur Canal Bidhannagar Sub CBD 1 CBD 1 Keshtopur Canal CBD 2 Newtown Convention Centre Sub CBD 2 Titumir Rajarhat Road Rabindra Tirtha VIP Road Line 4 Biman Bandar  Line 4  Airport Depot Line 4
Location

Jyotirindra Nandi Metro Station is an under construction metro station of Line 6 of the Kolkata Metro. The station would serve Mukundapur, Santoshpur and Ajoy Nagar areas outlying the E.M. Bypass section of the city.

The station is named in honour of the Bengali writer, Jyotirindranath Nandi.

History

This project was sanctioned in the budget of 2010–11 by Mamata Banerjee with a project deadline of six years. The execution of this project has been entrusted to RVNL at a cost of Rs 3951.98 crore. It will help to reduce travel time between the southern fringes of Kolkata to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.

The 5 km (3.1 mi) stretch from New Garia to Ruby Hospital was expected to start from 2018. On 12 February 2018 Mr Ajay Vijayvargiya, General Manager Metro Railways announced a delay in inauguration of New Garia to Ruby stretch.

The Station

Structure

Jyotirindra Nandi Metro Station on Line 6 of Kolkata Metro is structurally an elevated metro station. The station has total 3 levels. Station entrances and exits begin or end at the first level or ground level. Second level or L1 or intermediate level houses station fare control, station agents, metro card vending machines, crossovers etc. The third level or L2 or the final level houses the platforms and rail tracks. The station is 200 meters long and 25 meters wide.

Layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
L1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, Metro Card vending machines, crossover
L2	Side platform doors will open on the left
	Southbound	Towards →Kavi Subhash→ →
	Northbound	→Towards ←Airport← ←
	Side platform doors will open on the left
L2

Location

Jyotirindra Nandi metro station is in vicinity of Metro Cash and Carry office and various private hospitals like Peerless Hospital. The famous Kishore Bharati Krirangan, one of the city's biggest football stadium, that attracts fans all over the kolkata as it is the alternative grounds of famous Kolkata clubs, i.e, Mohun Bagan AC, East Bengal FC and Mohammedan Sporting lies close the station. The previous station of the station is Satyajit Roy Metro Station at a distance of 1.4 km and the next station is Kavi Sukanta Metro Station at a distance of 1.1 km.

Infrastructure

The station is being built with state-of-the-art technology. The station has 4 entrances and exits for entry and exit. A number of lifts, staircases and elevators are attached to the reach the concourse building. The second level of the station has ticket collection center, ticket validator for ticket examination. The station will have escalators for the convenience of passengers. Besides, the station will have drinking water and toilet facilities.

Electricity and signal systems

Like the other stations and lines of the Kolkata Metro, this station will use 750 volts DC power supply by the third railway to operate the trains.

Train movement will be conducted at this station and on the railway by communication-based train control signal system. This signal system can operate a 90 second interval train. Currently this automatic signalling system is not activated and only one metro track is operational.

See also

• List of Kolkata Metro stations