Kolkata Monorail is a rail-based transit project planned for the Indian city of Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

. It is the First awarded Monorail

Monorail

A monorail is a rail-based transportation system based on a single rail, which acts as its sole support and its guideway. The term is also used variously to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or track...

project in India before Mumbai. The Kolkata-based Andromeda Technologies has received the order for building a monorail public transport system.

Phase I

Corridor 1: Budge Budge to Taratala [20 km].
The work has not started yet.