Kolkata: Representatives from the Nepal govt flew in on Thursday to discuss shifting their Kolkata address to facilitate Metro's Purple Line project. The team, led by the joint secretary of Nepal's ministry of foreign affairs Surendra Yadav, visited a day after the Calcutta High Court cleared a major hurdle relating to the Purple Line's ramp construction at Ekbalpore. The division bench, comprising Justices Debanshu Basak and Prasenjit Biswas, on Wednesday dismissed the appeal of tenants of City Properties at 1, National Library Avenue, on the DH Road-Ekbalpore crossing so that the Nepal Consulate next door could be relocated there.
Around 60 m of the Purple Line's 450-m ramp will be constructed next to the existing Nepal Consulate premises on 7/1, DH Road. RVNL on Thursday presented to the Nepal govt representatives the plan to build a three-storey building after razing the ramshackle City Properties structure. The land will then be used for utility diversion and widening of the western side of Diamond Harbour Road.