Namma Metro - Bengaluru Metro limping along for over a decade

Namma Metro was supposed to be a feather in the cap of Bengaluru, the Gsrden City - but, even after a decade, it is just limping along. It had been planned in 2002-03 and started in 2006 but it is nowhere near completion and, as per latest indications,the citizens would have to wait for at least 17 more years.

This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 2 November 2015.

The cost of the project has more than doubled from Rs 6,000 crore to Rs 13,800 crore and, Phase 1 of the project, covering 42-Km, was to have been opened this year but the completion date has now been pushed to the first quarter of 2016. Asa per a recent survey published in railyatri.in, it appears that Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRC) will take up to 2032 to complete both phases and provide the city with a 114-Km network.
The survey found that Bengaluru Metro had been able to construct 1.5-Km of network every year. In contrast, Delhi Metro built 8-Km per year in the first phase.
It may be recalled that when former PM Manmohan Singh had laid the foundation stone for Namma Metro in June 2006, the first line, Byappanahalli-MG Road, was to be operational by 2009 and the first phase by 2011. however, the first line was only commissioned in October 2011 - the rest of Phase 1 is still being built.
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