MMRCL Director (Projects) SK Gupta, in a chat with mid-day, opens up about the challenges encountered while laying the Aqua 3 Line, among other things

Ahead of the opening of the final stretch of the Metro 3 Aqua Line, SK Gupta, director (projects), Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL), opened up to mid-day about the ambitious project.

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It has been nearly a century since Colaba had trains. The underground Metro has been a challenging project, especially the South Mumbai stretch. Could you, in brief, list the biggest breakthroughs?

The biggest challenges that were experienced during the project were in South Mumbai, since we had to construct underground stations using techniques such as cut and cover, NATM (New Austrian Tunnelling Method), and also tunnell

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