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Kolkata: The bustling Salt Lake area, on the eastern fringes of Kolkata, is shrinking at an alarming rate, a top scientist at the Geological Survey of India said. "As the station is able to obtain coordinates within 300-kilometre radius, we may also say that Kolkata is shrinking," Som said. Of the cities facing subsidence, Jaipur and Salt Lake, in the neighbourhood of Kolkata, are the worst affected, the GSI director maintained. We have two GPS stations, one at Thiruvananthapuram and another at Pune, which have also reported similar developments," he stated. Our aim is to study the stress and strain (the earth's crust undergoes) across the country," Som added..