Once five or six stations of Blue Line are completed, we plan to make them operational: D.K. Shivakumar

Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar connected Friday said erstwhile 5 oregon six stations of the Namma Metro Blue Line are completed, they volition beryllium opened for nationalist use.

After inspecting the ongoing operation connected the Airport Metro (Blue Line) corridor, Mr. Shivakumar said that helium has conducted advancement reviews crossed each departments nether his portfolio, including the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), up of the Karnataka’s legislature league successful Belagavi scheduled from December 8 to 19.

Mr. Shivakumar said the 58-km ORR–Airport Metro, a ₹15,000 crore task connecting Central Silk Board to Kempegowda International Airport, volition beryllium commissioned successful stages if needed.

“If the contractor does not implicit the enactment connected time, we volition not grant them immoderate further contracts,” helium warned.

Mr. Shivakumar said that the deadlines person been acceptable for each conception of the Blue Line: the Central Silk Board–K.R. Puram agelong (Phase 2A) is targeted for completion by December 2026, portion the K.R. Puram–Hebbal information indispensable beryllium acceptable by December 2027. The Hebbal–Kempegowda International Airport conception (Phase 2B) carries a deadline of June 2026.

According to the BMRCL, erstwhile afloat operational, it volition supply a seamless 58.19-km transit nexus from the IT hubs astir Silk Board successful the southbound to the airdrome successful the north, via K.R. Puram.

The 19.75-km Phase 2A conception and the 38.44-km Phase 2B airdrome nexus unneurotic volition signifier the longest uninterrupted metro corridor successful the city.