Narendra Modi inaugurates Bengaluru Metro line today
The 13.71 km spread from the Whitefield (Kadugodi) Metro to Krishnarajapura (KR Puram) Metro Line of the Reach-1 extension work will be inaugurated by Modi at Whitefield (Kadugodi) Metro Station at about 1 pm. He will even take a ride in the metro.
PM Narendra Modi is all set and ready to inaugurate the new 13.71km of the Bengaluru Metro Phase II work in poll-bound Karnataka on Saturday.
Modi, who is scheduled to land in Bengaluru Saturday morning, will first go to Chikkaballapura to inaugurate the Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (SMSIMSR) at 10.45 am. The SMSIMSR, which will begin operating this year, will deliver medical teaching and quality medical care free of cost.
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Built at the cost of about Rs 4,250 crores. The KR Puram-Whitefield line seeks to decrease the travel time to 24 minutes, which otherwise would take over an hour by the highway. The stretch, which has 12 stations, will even have direct walkway assistance to the ITPL campus at Pattandur Agrahara Metro station and will probably help 3 lakh passengers.
It is part of the much-anticipated 15.81 km stretch of the Bengaluru Metro from Baiyappanahalli to Whitefield on the Purple Line. However, about a 2.1 km stretch on this line is to be finished. The stretch includes two reaches – R1A, an 8.67 km stretch from Baiyappanahalli to Seetharama Palya (on the K R Puram stretch), and R1B, a 7.14 km stretch from Seetharama Palya to Whitefield.
