Metro work: Chingrighata traffic diversion from May 15
Times of India | 8 April 2026
Kolkata: The traffic department on Tuesday issued an order reiterating that RVNL will be allowed to launch concrete girders atop Chingrighata on weekend nights from midnight to 5 am starting May 15 and again on May 22.
The 366-metre concrete gap at Chingrighata on EM Bypass is waiting to be bridged since Feb 2 last year so that the Orange Line could reach Sector V.
TOI reported last Wednesday on Kolkata Police's traffic department granting the much-awaited green signal for traffic diversion for the crucial work to fill in the concrete gap atop Chingrighata on EM Bypass.
A letter saying this was issued by the traffic dept on March 26 to Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd, which is implementing the 32-km New Garia-Airport corridor, also called the Orange Line.
"Today's order is the formal NOC for night traffic blocks on the EM Bypass stretch around Chingrighata so that the section of viaduct (on which metro tracks are laid) can be constructed. The concrete will link piers 317, 318 and 319 and bridge the 366m gap," an official said.
RVNL has already built a road running parallel to the Chingrighata flyover from the Chingrighata crossing to the Metropolitan crossing so that traffic could be diverted while the busy EM Bypass crossing could be shut from midnight to 5 am for two weekends to facilitate the metro work and the missing link could be bridged.
During the first phase, the western flank of the Chingrighata crossing will be closed to bridge the piers. The western flank carries vehicles towards Beleghata and Ultadanga. In the second phase, on the next weekend starting May 22, the eastern flank will be closed.