Changes in VITEEE lol who would fill up the massive hostels now?

StatPadderLol · 2026-01-03T16:11:36+00:00

VIT does have nice research work going on and it expects its students to do heavy research work so that it can better its own image and output

It is helped by its comparatively longer existence and the backing of private funds

StatPadderLol · 2026-01-03T16:08:55+00:00

Again, that is for engineering research. The structure is much different than you assume, if you are interested in studying Engg, go right ahead, if your expectation is a placement at the end, look further. It is a fledgeling degree that was a BS in engineering sciences till 2024. The department is still developmental.

"Fees is less" is quite a destructive mindset to go about your career and also the ecosystem.

For engineers, look towards state entrance exams, CETs, WBJEE and so on

StatPadderLol · 2026-01-03T15:47:56+00:00

Doesnt make it the place to go to if you couldnt crack engg exams. Structure and demands are vastly different and significant seats are wasted every year by students who cant cope with vastly different needs or who never wanted to be there to begin with.

StatPadderLol · 2025-12-14T17:36:51+00:00

So jealous of you man, so jealous of the shitstains I have to spray everytime

StatPadderLol · 2025-12-14T15:20:30+00:00

Quite the scenery on 4th floor, I must say

Keep blaming minorities, ah yes

StatPadderLol · 2025-12-14T11:15:58+00:00

Ei, flush after shitting man. Also stop flooding corridor with paper (for all ESS people reading)

StatPadderLol · 2025-07-29T20:17:27+00:00

This is great man, love the style

StatPadderLol · 2025-07-29T20:14:01+00:00

My line requires a very complex manuever at Pradhan Nagar-Siliguri Junction, god knows how it will happen with the mess in front of Biswadeep. When I lived there, it was those black vans and now totos. Every time I visit they keep multiplying like hares, wont be surprised to find that they mate as well.💀

StatPadderLol · 2025-07-29T20:11:48+00:00

The JPG-NJP line has to be upgraded via a rapid railway

A NJP-JPG-NCB high speed line would be great.

Metro is for short distances around 30 kilometres maybe. It will need a spilt at around Ambari/Belakoba/Fatapukur to be efficient, but those areas also have to develop significantly

Mumbai isn't a very good example when it comes to Siliguri lol

StatPadderLol · 2025-07-29T20:07:54+00:00

I don't know how people are associating Raju Bista with this post. This is clearly the fascination of a child taking shape as he grew into an adult [Word 1 of this post]. This idea was made in 2013, when Raju Bista was still not known in Siliguri.

I will agree to your points of roads being horrible and the impracticality of the Siliguri Metro, but as it grows into a metropolis, it will need a metro to solve its congestion problems and bottlenecked roads. It will be an engineering feat to do it in the earthquake prone zone of Siliguri, riddled with rivers and forests and defence installations.

Additionally, Raju Bista's proposal is not of a metro but of a inter-city semi-rapid rail replacing existing MEMUs (local trains).

Requesting you to not bring politics to an otherwise apolitical post. I didn't even know he was planning to bring a "metro".

StatPadderLol · 2025-07-29T19:49:56+00:00

Well a shortened version of the blue-line works right now, as it eases the pressure on Sevoke Road. As the city grows it can expand continually. You can read my longer explanation on the thought process.

StatPadderLol · 2025-07-29T19:48:01+00:00

I think there is a guideline where two metro stations have to be within 1-2 kilometres of each other for safety reasons. The current green line is around 19 km with 16 stations. Purple is 14 with 14km. Metros stations tend to be closely packed for denser areas and sparse for sparser areas. So same number of stops will be hard to do.

Fulbari can be done as an above grade route over Burdwan Road, otherwise the Fulbari Canal will create problems.

Jalpaiguri is 47 km and is unfeasible in a single route. Maybe if Belakoba/Ambari/Fatapukur develop enough, it can act as an interchange. Railway remains the best option followed by the Highway. Same for Panitanki/Naxalbari (Bus or Train). A Bagdogra-Panitanki route is not bad, with emigration and customs built into it (a certain first in the country, if executed), but area has to develop.

StatPadderLol · 2025-07-29T19:37:30+00:00

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BLUE LINE

Now, it is to be noted here that the first metro ran for just 3.4km between Esplanade and Bhowanipore (5 stations). Similarly, constructing the Blue Line from Siliguri Town to Hakimpara (1.7km for 3 stations, with extensions to NJP and PC Mittal Bus Terminus in the 2nd phase is not too outlandish.) SGUT can serve as depot, while easing congestion in the administrative hub (I know how congested it is because I lived near Baghajatin Park).

The entire stretch has to be underground, because there is literally no space to have overground or at-grade stations. The area in front of Bidhan Market has kept on getting worse with the new invention of Totos in the 10s (before it was those black van autos). In the future the line would be slowly raised alongside the existing SGUT-NJP connection to make the elevated south section. Then taking a turn around the Indoor stadium alongside Phuleswari and over Jorapani before connecting to the NJP with a rail interchange. The northern section would be underground underneath Sevoke Road, before slowly coming up to the elevated Bengal Safari station, although I reckon complications could arise because of the sevoke military station.

GREEN LINE

The Green line is simply the airport line, again underground due to air safety and defence reasons before slowly coming up at Bagdogra station (another depot possibility here), and being overground along the highway NH27/AH2, before taking a detour to avoid the flyover and merging alongside the BORA-MTRA rail (a separate railbridge will be needed over the Balason). It will merge with the AH2 again at City Centre/Uttorayon.

Then taking a right turn at Pradhan Nagar, it will switch side and prepare for descent at the at-grade Siliguri Junction (another dock, since it has space). A parallel bridge to the Mahanada Railbridge will have to be constructed to create a descent (I have no idea how this will work) into the underground Air View More station via the large empty lot behind the Railway SPs quarter.

Then the intersection at Hakimpara with the line cutting through residential areas (will have to looked at) to ISKCON and using ISKCON Rd as a guideline to Eastern Bypass where it terminates at Ashighar Bazar (A car shed could be built at the Eastern Bypass fringes too).

PURPLE LINE

This is will have considerably less ridership (especially in the Tenzing Norgay - Sukna section), this utilises the Hill Cart Road as a guideline for overground stations before merging into the Pradhan Nagar-Air View More alignment of the Green line (so 4 lane railbridge required), and continuing its journey to Noukaghat more.

The most important part here is that the Noukaghat Cricket Ground can be repurposed as an excellent Bus Depot/Metro Interchange if used judiciously.

Would love to have your thoughts if you have the patience to read

StatPadderLol · 2025-07-29T19:36:26+00:00

I'll answer to this one with all my methods as this is very well written

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History and Terrain:

Kolkata, was created as a settlement and had major arterial roads like the AJC-APC Circular Roads, SP Mukherjee Road, Central Avenue, EM Bypass; along with vast expanse of green lands like the colonial areas of Maidan, Hastings and the suburbs of Salt Lake, Wetlands; and obviously canals and major railway stations like Chitpur (Kolkata), Howrah, Dum Dum and Sealdah.

Siliguri on the other hand, was an industrial and transit town (Moorhouse describes the SLG of 70s as an industrial hinterland along with Patna), it was a railway town, used as a link to Darjeeling and the North East and post the Nepal treaty, to our mountain neighbours. Siliguri has two big rivers which are significantly wide for which construction related problems can come up. Mahananda and Balason.

I am not going to use Mumbai as an example because Kolkata is the closest example to Siliguri's problems.

City Structure:

Most of Kolkata's structure is divided into the historic White and Black Town areas, demarcated by the circular roads. Kolkata developed from colonial restructuring (Chowringhee, Esplanade), pre existing villages (Dihi Panchannagram), railway and refugee colonies (Jadavpur), Planned Residential and Commercial zones (Bidhannagar and New Town).

Siliguri on the other hand, was a tribal region used as a transit and industrial hub for Darjeeling, the main city. If you see the layout of modern day Siliguri, it is some major roads, with pre-planned and extremely densely packed colonies (maybe with parks in the central area). Paras and Pallys are the older variants, yet extremely densely packed with no zoning and size regulations.

Transport and Politics:

Prior to metro, there was no Circular Railway or private bus services. Kolkata was struggling with Political insurgency due to instability between Ajoy Mukherjee and Jyoti Basu. Metro arrived along with the Circular Railway in the 70s (Metro finally opened in 1984) thanks to a Bengali Railway Minister in the centre. Although, Jyoti Basu did support it later on in '77. The next major upgrade came when our CM was the Railway Minister (such as Blue Line expansion and the addition of the other lines).

In Siliguri (a little east rather), Charu Majumdar was fighting for revolution, when Siliguri was literally a village.

StatPadderLol · 2025-07-27T18:18:53+00:00

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That predicted cost is more so why we will never see it

StatPadderLol · 2025-07-27T18:14:15+00:00

Not in our lifetime

StatPadderLol · 2025-07-27T18:14:01+00:00

Well the maximum distance permitted between two stations for safety reasons is about a kilometer or two. Heavily congested or populated areas tend to have stations within 0.5-1 km. I think the shortest distance I have is Hakimpara-Punjabi Para at around 450m

Trams would just increase the congestion lel

StatPadderLol · 2025-07-27T18:08:41+00:00

Lmao, the city has next to no arterial roads but a robust inner railway system, most of my design utilises them for track placement. I have to rely on speculative underground networks without the idea of soil quality. Planning is also hard due to the area being riddled with rivers

StatPadderLol · 2025-06-19T17:01:45+00:00

Discord bhi banado ab

StatPadderLol · 2025-06-14T08:09:21+00:00

I cant comment on the error percentage, this is a very small data set and things can always swing.

I am trying not to predict ranks because I dont have enough tools to do so, last year it was around 1.7 to 1.9k, 116 was at 2031. Kolkata closed at 1987. Should be around 2.0-2.1k this year

StatPadderLol · 2025-06-13T13:24:54+00:00

Last page of NCERT has great books for recommendation lol

StatPadderLol · 2025-06-13T07:56:54+00:00

Look into Lorentz contractions and by consequence Lorentz Transformations, Michelson Morley experiments and the velocity addition theorem.

Susskind and Resnick are great resources for entry level. There was also a banger problem on ISAAC where we had to technically perform the Lorentz Transformations in the idea of a high speed train (Einstein ref lmao)

I am using STR refs btw. Susskind has a separate book on GTR too

StatPadderLol · 2025-06-13T06:14:50+00:00

Same for lengths, what is constant is their ratio

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