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Kolkata: Completion of the East-West Metro corridor is likely to be delayed by up to one year due to the accident caused by an aquifer burst in Bowbazar area during drilling operations in August, a senior KMRC official said. "The project was scheduled to be completed by June 2021, but we are apprehending that it may get delayed by approximately six months to one year," the Kolkata Metro Railway Corporation (KMRC) official said. An expert team is working on the resumption of tunnel boring work at the site," he told PTI. The court had then ordered suspension of the tunnelling work for the East-West Metro corridor. A crisis management team was formed by the KMRC, which is executing the East-West Metro project, under the leadership of Leonard John Endicott, a geotechnical expert from Hong Kong..