Delhi firm to build temporary BC Roy Mkt in eight months
Times of India | 27 November 2024
123 Kolkata: A Delhi-based firm was awarded the Rs 19 crore contract for building the temporary BC Roy Market. The single-storey steel structure will come up in the next eight months, after which the traders will be shifted. RVNL, implementing agency of the city's Purple Line, will then raze the existing structure to make way for the terminal Esplanade station.
Emerging the lowest bidder, SS Constructions has been entrusted with the construction of the market structure at the Kolkata Mounted Police Paddock and Riding School at Esplanade, railway officials said. TOI on Nov 19 reported that the country's oldest Mounted Police club will host the market for next three years. Most of the 300m x 40m Esplanade station box will be located where the market now stands. The steel structure will have 528 stalls.
The Purple Line now runs 8km from Joka to Majerhat. It will eventually cover 14 km till Esplanade. TOI had reported on Nov 15 that the defence ministry cleared the market's shifting and embossed the revised scheme for building Esplanade station. RVNL then cancelled the old tender for building a permanent BC Roy Market — known as Bidhan or Maidan market — at Curzon Park. The permanent market will now be built atop the proposed Purple Line Esplanade station.
Kolkata: A Delhi-based firm was awarded the Rs 19 crore contract for building the temporary BC Roy Market. The single-storey steel structure will come up in the next eight months, after which the traders will be shifted. RVNL, implementing agency of the city's Purple Line, will then raze the existing structure to make way for the terminal Esplanade station.
Emerging the lowest bidder, SS Constructions has been entrusted with the construction of the market structure at the Kolkata Mounted Police Paddock and Riding School at Esplanade, railway officials said. TOI on Nov 19 reported that the country's oldest Mounted Police club will host the market for next three years. Most of the 300m x 40m Esplanade station box will be located where the market now stands. The steel structure will have 528 stalls.
The Purple Line now runs 8km from Joka to Majerhat. It will eventually cover 14 km till Esplanade. TOI had reported on Nov 15 that the defence ministry cleared the market's shifting and embossed the revised scheme for building Esplanade station. RVNL then cancelled the old tender for building a permanent BC Roy Market — known as Bidhan or Maidan market — at Curzon Park. The permanent market will now be built atop the proposed Purple Line Esplanade station.