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Namma Metro
In line with the Country’s efforts to improve the transport facilities in all the metros and important cities, Rapid transit rail system has been introduced to Bengaluru City with a name Namma Metro. Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), a joint venture undertaking of Government of India and Government of Karnataka , has been formed for executing this project. The first phase of the project was inaugurated on October 20, 2011 and is progressing with the work.
This project includes construction of two corridors, East-West and North South.
Map Of Namma Metro
The East Weststretch is of 8.10 Km length covering stations between Baiyappanahalli and Mysore Road terminal and the North West stretch is of 24.20 km length covering the stations between Nagasandra and Puttenahali.
This project can be considered unique because it is the first Metro Rail project with 750V DC and it will bethe third rail on Standard Gauge line. The planoutlay would takea capacity of 40000 Peak Hour Peak Direction Trips (PHPDT) facilitating 12 lakhs passengers to travel through the Metro every day by 2013 and 19 lakhs by 2021.
Namma Metro Network
Under Phase-1, NammaMetro will have two corridors laid in East-West and North –South directions. They will be identified as Purple line and Green line.
The corridors are so arranged that there will be an intersect at Kempegowda station, where interchange is facilitated. A passenger who intends to travel from a station in one corridor to another station in the other corridor has to change trains at this intersection. For example, one who travels from Trinity station in Purple line can travel to Peenya in Green line, by changing trains at Kempegowda station with a single ticket.
The section details of the above corridors are given below:
North-South corridor is named Green Line | East-West corridor is named Purple Line | ||
Stations on Green Line | Stations on Purple Line | ||
1 | Banashankari | 1 | Attiguppe |
2 | Chickpete | 2 | Baiyappanahalli |
3 | Dasarahalli | 3 | City Railway Station |
4 | Jalahalli | 4 | Cubbon Park |
5 | Jaya Prakash Nagar | 5 | Deepanjali Nagar |
6 | Jayanagar | 6 | Halasuru |
7 | Kempegowda | 7 | Hosahalli |
8 | Krishna Rajendra Market | 8 | Indiranagar |
9 | Kuvempu Road | 9 | Kempegowda |
10 | Lalbagh | 10 | Magadi Road |
11 | Mahalakshmi | 11 | Mahatma Gandhi Road |
12 | Nagasandra | 12 | Mysore Road |
14 | National College | 13 | Sir.M.Visveshwaraya |
15 | Peenya | 14 | Swami Vivekananda Road |
16 | Peenya Industry | 15 | Trinity |
17 | Puttenahalli | 16 | Vidhana Soudha |
18 | Rajajinagar | 17 | Vijayanagar |
19 | Rashtreeya Vidyalaya Road | ||
20 | Sampige Road | ||
21 | Sandal Soap Factory | ||
22 | South End Circle | ||
23 | Srirampura | ||
24 | Yeshwanthpur | ||
25 | Yeshwanthpur Industry |