Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Bengaluru on Friday to inaugurate the elevated section of Namma Metro's Pink Line, which takes the city's operational metro network beyond 100 km for the first time, ANI and India TV reported.
The Prime Minister was scheduled to flag off the line and ride from Tavarekere to the IIM Bangalore station at around 12.45 pm. Earlier in the day he attended the golden jubilee celebrations at Prashanti Kutiram, where he paid tribute to RSS leader H.V. Sheshadri on his birth centenary, The Hindu reported.
The new stretch
The 7.2 km elevated corridor runs from Kalena Agrahara to Tavarekere and has six stations:
- Kalena Agrahara
- Hulimavu
- IIMB (Bilekahalli-IIMB)
- JP Nagar 4th Phase
- Jayadeva Hospital
- Tavarekere
It opens to the public on Saturday, November 14. Fares range from ₹10 to ₹30 on the network's standard slabs, India TV reported.
What next
The full Pink Line is 21.26 km long with 18 stations, according to the Bengaluru Metro website cited by India TV. The remaining 12 are underground, through Dairy Circle, MG Road, Shivaji Nagar and Cantonment up to Nagawara, and the whole corridor from Tavarekere to Nagawara is likely to be finished by 2027.
Also on the Prime Minister's list
Modi was also due to flag off the Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express, running from Yesvantpur to Madgaon in Goa in about 13 hours, and to launch projects worth over ₹15,600 crore, India TV reported. They include a ₹4,450 crore transmission scheme for renewable energy zones in Koppal and Gadag, and what the report called India's largest underground LPG storage cavern, in Mangaluru, built for over ₹850 crore.