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The highly anticipated Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project (BSRP), which is acceptable to relieve the metropolis from postulation congestion, has gained important momentum with the Bi-RIDE (Bengaluru Integrated Rail Infrastructure Development Enterprise Limited) officially issuing a enactment bid to the Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai, to proviso the 153 air-conditioned ‘Broad-Gauge Metro Type Coaches’ required for Corridor-2 and Corridor-4 of the project.
The full worth of the enactment bid is ₹1,513.75 crore.
As per the declaration awarded connected May 6, the ICF indispensable commence the proviso of the coaches wrong the adjacent 18 months. This deadline has been acceptable with the nonsubjective of opening the Chikkabanawara-Yeshwanthpur section, which falls nether Corridor-2, for nationalist work connected schedule.
Furthermore, Bi-RIDE has clarified that this is besides successful enactment with the timeline acceptable by the Prime Minister during the ‘PRAGATI’ reappraisal gathering held successful December 2025, and an authoritative Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) volition beryllium signed betwixt the 2 organisations shortly.
“This enactment bid is simply a historical milestone for the Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project. Through this concern with ICF, we are ensuring that the required bid coaches volition beryllium disposable by the clip the way and systems infrastructure enactment for Corridors 2 and 4 is completed. This synchronisation volition assistance present a world-class suburban obstruction web to the citizens of Bengaluru without immoderate delay, fulfilling the imaginativeness of sustainable municipality transport and easing the city’s postulation congestion,” said Laxman Singh, managing director, Bi-RIDE (K-RIDE).
