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Kolkata: The tunnel-boring work for East West Metro is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2021. "Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) 1 has stopped working and it will not be in use again. Underground tunneling work for the East-West Metro corridor is likely to take 10 more months to be completed," pointed out Endicott, the geotechnical expert. However, the first phase of the East-West Metro, stretching five kilometres between Salt Lake Sector V and Salt Lake Stadium, was thrown upon to public on February 14, 2020. The total stretch of the East-West Metro, from Salt Lake Sector V to Howrah Maidan, spans 16.5 kilometres..