Namma Metro’s extended Purple line inaugurated

Aug 30,2021

Commuters will finally be able to travel on Namma Metro’s extended Purple Line from Mysuru Road to Kengeri when it commences operations today. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated the extended line and flagged off a train at Nayandahalli Metro station.

Services will be operated between 7 am and 8 pm, and trains will run at a frequency of 10 minutes between Kengeri and Baiyappanahalli.

The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. had taken up the work on this stretch in 2016. There are six metro stations on the line: Nanyandahalli, RR Nagar, Jnanabharathi, Pattengere, Kengeri TTMC and Kengeri. On the same line, the metro line has been extended up to a distance of 2 km till Challaghatta, a deadline of March 2022 has been set to open this line.

During his address, Chief Minister Bommai said that Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) will be linked with three mass transit network. They are suburban rail (Majestic to Devenahalli), Namma Metro (Silk Board to KIA) and high speed rail from city point to the airport.

BMRCL is constructing a 55 km metro line from Central Silk Board to KIA via KR Puram, Hebbal under Phase II A & B of Namma Metro project.