The engineers have been able to restore one route out of the seven, after rigorous trial runs which were conducted on 12 and 13 June by WBTC. Services of the restored route number 24/29 between Tollygunge and Ballygunge resumed today.
For close to 72 hours, South Kolkata had to wallow in the mire of darkness and a crippling stoppage of water supply.
The animals were however not harmed in the cyclone but two of the enclosures -deer and ostrich have been partially damaged.
Similarly, some of the glass screen doors at the elevated station in the recently opened East-West Metro have also been damaged.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to visit one of the worst hit parts of West Bengal by cyclone Amphan- South 24 Parganas district on Saturday and take stock of the situation.
Forty-one teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), including seven reserves, have been deployed in the two states, its chief S N Pradhan said in New Delhi.
Cyclone Amphan is expected to make landfall somewhere between West Bengal's Digha and Hatiya Island in Bangladesh
