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Amid wide nationalist criticism, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) connected Sunday invited tenders to hole the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for extending metro services to Tumakuru, starting from Madavara connected the existing Green Line.
The projected 59.60 km enactment volition see 25 stations successful the bluish portion of the city. According to the State government’s earlier Budget estimates, the task volition outgo ₹20,649 crore. Interested contractors indispensable taxable their tender documents by November 20, and the bids volition beryllium opened the pursuing day.
This determination follows Home Minister G. Parameshwara’s announcement that the authorities had accepted a feasibility study prepared by Hyderabad-based Aarvee Associates Architects Engineers & Consultants Pvt. Ltd. BMRCL had submitted the study to the authorities successful May this year. The projected hold falls nether Namma Metro’s Phase 4, which chiefly focuses connected extending existing lines.
However, the task has triggered wide statement implicit the request for specified an costly inaugural erstwhile aggregate different agencies are already moving connected improving connectivity to Tumakuru, which lies astir 70 km from the metropolis centre.
Railway Infrastructure Development Company Karnataka (K-RIDE) has projected a suburban nexus to Tumakuru, and South Western Railway besides has plans to grow infrastructure to amended connectivity betwixt the 2 districts.
One of the cardinal requirements successful the DPR is the mentation of an Alternative Analysis Report (AAR) to guarantee that each tenable proscription alternatives are evaluated. The AAR volition besides outline the impacts of the task and contiguous stakeholder opinions. Its superior nonsubjective is to place the locally preferred alternative, offering clarity connected the project’s importance.
Criticism
Civic groups reason that a Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) is much due for inter-district connectivity than a metro line, which they accidental is amended suited for intra-city usage successful places similar Bengaluru. As the task crosses territory boundaries, the groups besides reason that question costs could extremity up being higher than existing autobus oregon bid options.
L.S. Tejasvi Surya, MP for South Bangalore, questioned the connection connected X. “Tumakuru needs world-class connectivity to Bengaluru. No doubt. But is metro the close option?”
He added, “The Congress authorities is repeatedly getting the fundamentals wrong—from passageway roads to inter-city metro proposals, these arbitrary and ill-considered decisions are denying citizens basal civic amenities.”
What should beryllium successful the DPR?
The DPR should measure the existing metropolis profile, onshore use, and transport characteristics and reappraisal earlier studies specified arsenic the Master Plan, Comprehensive Mobility Plan, and erstwhile metro proposals. The advisor indispensable analyse contiguous and aboriginal question request done surveys, modelling, calibration, and ridership estimation.
Key tasks see identifying suitable transit exertion and detailing the corridor alignment with respect to roadworthy geometry, geotechnical conditions, onshore requirements, and inferior mapping.
Station readying indispensable code layouts, accessibility, multimodal integration, non-motorised transport provisions, and level capacity. An Intermodal Integration Plan is required to guarantee physical, operational, fare, and organization integration with existing transport modes.
The DPR indispensable besides code bid operations, signalling (preferably CBTC GoA4), telecommunications, fare postulation systems, rolling banal specifications, powerfulness and traction systems, ventilation and air-conditioning, and depot planning. Environmental and societal interaction assessments, catastrophe absorption strategies, and information measures indispensable beryllium thoroughly detailed.
Cost estimation, fiscal modelling, backing options, and sensitivity analyses are mandatory. Finally, the advisor indispensable suggest an implementation program and organization model and behaviour stakeholder consultations astatine cardinal stages.
