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(CNN) Flowers, a coconut and a spherical of cheers had been a part of the celebrations following the inaugural check run by way of India’s first underwater metro tunnel on Wednesday.

The Kolkata metro’s latest line, set to open to the general public in November, passes beneath the Hooghly River within the metropolis’s northeast, with the tunnel 32 meters (105 toes) beneath the water.

“This is a historic moment for Metro Railway,” Kausik Mitra, chief public relations officer for the Kolkata metro system, mentioned in a press release.
“This is a revolutionary step in providing a modern transport system to the people of Kolkata and suburbs.”

The line will join the soon-to-open metro station of Howrah Maidan and the present station of Esplanade on the other facet of the river, touring 520 meters (1700 toes) in simply 45 seconds. Once open, Howrah Maidan would be the deepest metro station in India.

To bless the brand new tunnel and practice, officers carried out a puja, or Hindu spiritual ritual, to deliver good luck, after the practice efficiently pulled into the station at Howrah Maidan.

Bright-orange saffron flowers had been sprinkled across the conductor’s compartment contained in the practice, and one employee broke a coconut amid cheers and applause from his colleagues.

The full metro line by way of Howrah Maidan can be 4.8 km (three miles) lengthy.

Kolkata was the primary metropolis in India to have a metro system.

Infrastructure is a serious nationwide initiative underneath the management of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Earlier this yr, the nation celebrated opening the primary stretch of a new eight-lane express highway connecting the cities of New Delhi and Mumbai. The first accomplished part hyperlinks the capital with the town of Lalsot within the northwestern state of Rajasthan, a preferred vacation spot for vacationers.

And in January, the MV Ganga Vilas ship departed from Varanasi to sail on waterways together with the Ganges River for a 1,988-mile journey lasting 51 days, clinching the title of the world’s longest river cruise journey.