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The completion timeline of the Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project (BSRP), a long-awaited task aimed astatine easing congestion successful the metropolis and its outskirts, has been extended by much than 3 years, with the caller people acceptable for March, 2030, with aggregate deadlines for assorted corridors.
The task was primitively scheduled to beryllium completed by October, 2026.
The revised deadline was announced during a Citizens’ Stakeholders’ Outreach Programme organised by the Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka) Limited (K-RIDE) connected Wednesday. The gathering brought unneurotic nonmigratory payment associations, non-governmental organisations and civilian nine representatives to sermon the advancement and challenges of the sub-urban obstruction project.
A stakeholder who attended the gathering said that K-RIDE shared a revised corridor-wise implementation docket during the interaction.
According to sources, the updated timelines were finalised astatine a caller PRAGATI (Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation) reappraisal gathering chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “It was astonishing to spot that deadlines person been extended. It is disappointing that specified an important nationalist transport inaugural has been delayed for truthful long,” a subordinate told The Hindu.
Mr. Modi had primitively promised successful June 2022 that the project, which had been pending for 40 years, would beryllium completed successful 40 months.
New deadlines
As per the task timelines presented by the K-RIDE, the presumption which has been accessed by The Hindu, corridor-2 volition beryllium the archetypal to beryllium completed. This corridor includes the Chikkabanavara-Yeshwantpur agelong (7.4 km) and the Yeshwantpur-Bennigenahalli conception (17.5 km), with commissioning scheduled for December 2028. The corridor-4, which comprises the Bennigenahalli-Rajanukunte (24.6 km) and Heelalige-Bennigenahalli (22.5 km) sections, is expected to beryllium completed by June 2029.
The longest timelines are for corridor-1 and corridor-3. The corridor-1 covers the Bengaluru City-Yelahanka agelong (17.7 km) and the Yelahanka-Devanahalli section, including the airdrome hold (29.5 km). The corridor-3 includes the Kengeri-Bangalore Cantonment agelong (16.9 km). Both corridors are present slated for completion by March 2030.
The BSRP was sanctioned successful October 2020 aft decades of deliberation and was envisioned arsenic a high-capacity commuter obstruction strategy carrying astir 20 lakh passengers daily. The task proposes modern nine-coach, air-conditioned trains operating astatine precocious frequencies of 5 to 12 minutes crossed 4 corridors spanning 148 km and serving 58 stations. The corridor-1, connecting Majestic with Kempegowda International Airport, had earlier been accorded precedence and was initially scheduled for completion by October 2023, earlier the deadline was pushed to October 2026.
Outreach programme
Meanwhile, the K-RIDE officials said the outreach programme was intended to reaffirm its committedness to transparent and participative infrastructure development. Speaking to The Hindu, Rajkumar Dugar, convenor of the Citizens for Citizens, said the engagement was encouraging. “It is bully that citizens are being progressive and that the gathering was transparent. Such an inaugural is happening aft astir 3 years. We are affirmative that the task is connected track, but important funds should beryllium allocated to flooded onshore acquisition and financing challenges,” helium said.
The officials made elaborate presentations connected task status, timelines and upcoming milestones, followed by an unfastened interaction. The K-RIDE officials said feedback and suggestions from stakeholders would beryllium considered during task execution.
