2014: CAF withdraws from the KMRC rolling stock contract due to cost escalation. 2015: Realignment approved by Railways and JICA in between Sealdah to Howrah station. 2015: Subodh Mullick Square station, a key stop in the revised blueprint, done away with to avoid eviction of hawkers. 2015: Complete elevated tracks other than 365 meters at Duttabad ready. 2016-February: Rolling stock contract for 14 rakes having 6 coaches awarded to BEML. 2017-January: Structural and Roofing work of all elevated stations completed. 2017-March: Work starts at 365 meters of elevated section at Duttabad after resettlement of affected household. Elevated section is to be made of steel girders. 2017-March: Afcons nicknames the tunnel boring machine as Prerna and Rachna inspired from the names of daughter of their employee. 2017-May 23: First TBM completes tunneling the East bound tunnel under the Hoogly river. 2017-June 21: Second TBM completes tunneling the West bound tunnel under the river Hoogly. 2017-June: Permission received from Archaeological Survey of India for construction of tunnel within 100 meters of three heritage buildings. 2017-July: Tram depot at Esplanade shifted to facilitate construction of Metro Station. 2017-July: People from 11 buildings in Brebourne Road evacuated in phased manner when the TBM's passes below these old buildings. 2017-August: Mini-bus stand at Mahakaran shifted to facilitate the construction of underground station. 2017-September: Panasonic Manufacturing and Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric have been awarded contract of platform screen door on all 12 stations. 2017-October: 365 m of elevated section at Duttabad completed using steel girders. 2017-December: Tunnelling between Mahakaran station and Esplanade station ongoing. 2017-December: KMRC declares first phase to be in between Sector V and IFA Salt Lake Stadium instead of Phoolbagan to be inaugurated in June 2018. 2018-January: Demo coach arrives at IFA Salt Lake Metro Depot. People question its use. 2018-February 12: Metro general manager Mr. Ajay Vijayvargiya again postpones opening of first phase from June to September 2018. 2018-February: Constantly KMRC and Railways have postponed the opening of Phase 1 (the new deadline was before October 2018) and truncated the route for Phase 1 from Sealdah to Phoolbagan and now only till Salt lake Sec V. 2018-March 23: First TBM named Prerna reaches Esplanade station completing the section from Howrah Maidan to Esplanade. This tunnel will be used by Howrah bound tunnel. 2018-March 31: BEML delivers first metro train set to KMRC. The train sets to arrive in 20 days. Second train