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According to a KMRC survey, Futnani Chambers is the most ‘unsafe’ among 86 critical buildings standing along the Metro alignment between SN Banerjee Road and Raja Subodh Mullick Square.TBM Chandi has just started burrowing near the SN Banerjee Road-JL Nehru Road crossing. KOLKATA: Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC), the implementing agency of East-West Metro, and ITD ITD-Cem, the construction company building the tunnels, have started taking mitigation measures inside Futnani Chambers though there’s still some time left for the tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) to pass this stretch of SN Banerjee Road. All these will be done and cracks will be repaired before and after the TBMs pass,” he said. Tilt metres will be placed at various corners of the building for monitoring the slightest displacement. The building was once home to the well-known nightclub, Golden Slipper.Officials said tonnes of steel and truckloads of cement will be needed to strengthen the structure..