Roof slab casting of Kanpur Central Metro station under progress

Kanpur: The roof slab casting of Kanpur Central Metro Station of Kanpur Central-Transport Nagar underground section under the Corridor-1 (IIT-Naubasta) of the Kanpur Metro Rail Project is now under progress.
The roof slab casting started at Kanpur Central Metro Station on April 29. This Metro station will be 3.50 metres below the ground. On this occasion, senior officials of UPMRCL were present.
Congratulating the team of civil engineers on the occasion, Sushil Kumar, UPMRC managing director, said, "We had set a record by completing the 9 km-long Priority Section from IIT to Motijheel well ahead of the schedule and now aim to complete the entire 23-km long corridor from IIT to Naubasta as well in the stipulated time. At present the construction work on the entire balance section is progressing at a brisk pace”. “After Jhakarkati Metro Station under the Kanpur Central-Transport Nagar section, now the casting of the roof slab has commenced at Kanpur Central Metro Station as well. Soon tunnelling work will also commence in this section”, he said.
Kanpur Metro's underground stations will be ready with top-down method: The underground Metro stations of Kanpur Metro will be constructed using top-down method, that is the construction work will be done from top to bottom. After the roof slab is ready, the concourse level and then the platform level will be constructed.
This method is being adopted to minimize the impact of traffic on the station under construction. The construction work of the station below the road will continue and the movement of vehicles on the road will also continue smoothly.