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Rs 25,000 crore worth concrete pillars and bridges to come up
Bangalore to be the ‘train city’ of 21 century
S Praveen Dhaneshkar,Bangalore,Nov 2,Deccan Herald News Service

Picture this! The new Namma Bangalore of the 21st century, a Rs 25,000 crore train City. Hard to believe? Read on.

A 42 km ‘Namma Metro’ will criss-cross the City on a Phase-1, East-West and North-South corridor in September 2012 at a cost exceeding Rs 8,158 crore.  A high-speed train at a cost of Rs 5,767 crore will become a reality in 2011-12 to connect the BRV parade grounds to the Bengaluru International Airport on NH-7 on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis. A 59 km monorail corridor has been identified to be built at an estimated cost of Rs 12,000 crore, on a public-private-partnership (PPP) within the next three years.

Is the government actually turning the once ‘Garden City’ into a ‘Train City’ of concrete pillars and bridges, where trains will rule the roost at a cost that could well exceed Rs 25,000 crore, all just for public transport. Not to mention the Detailed Project Report (DPR) being currently prepared by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for Phase-2 to extend the Namma Metro alignment to include Whitefield, the NICE corridor and Electronic City at costs of well beyond Rs 10,000 crore, taking into account the annual cost escalation of 4 percent.

As per information available with Deccan Herald, the detailed project report (DPR) for Phase-1 of the Bangalore Metro, prepared by DMRC has stated the project costed Rs 3,970 crore, as on April 2003. This, then shot up to Rs 4,989 crore in May 2003 and was again revised/updated to cost Rs 6,296 crore in April 2005. Then BMRCL again revised the estimated cost of completing the project to Rs 8,158 crore in early 2009. This is expected to go up further at 4 percent as per the funding structure. All, this when the powers that be could have implemented a Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS)  on a 12.20 km route for the City as per a study done in 1982 at a cost of about Rs 239.15 crore.

Experts also said that the governments of the day also turned a blind-eye to a good feasibility study done in 1983, by an organisation of the Indian Railways suggesting a suburban rail service on existing lines, a circular railway of 57.9 km on two corridors. In Phase-1, a 12.9 km rail link from Rajajinagar to Jayanagar and in Phase-2, a 11.2 km train connectivity from Hudson Circle to Krishnarajapura, that would have been completed at less than Rs 500 cr.

Mono Rail Corridors  proposed under Swiss Challenge approach


*Majestic-Hudson Circle-Wilson Garden-Dairy Circle-Agaram Lake
*Wilson Garden-Banashankari-Mysore Road-Majestic
*Majestic-Rajajinagar-Basaveshwaranagar-Mahalakshmi Layout-Yeshwantpur-Malleshwaram-Sadashivanagar-Vasanthanagar-High Grounds
*Cantonment-Indiranagar-Domlur-Ejipura-Koramangala

Funding structure of Namma Metro

*Equity from Government of India and Karnataka:
15 percent each
*Subordinate Debt from GoI and GoK: 10 and 15 percent
*Loan from financial institutions: 45 percent of project cost
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By: blore-lover
On: 20 Nov 2009 10:09 am

Lets see when it comes. Our government will ensure that the funds increase 1000% over the initial budget, allocate the funds and then cancel the project. Finally, funds and trains will be missing !!!Is another Koda in the making ? Anyways, our politicians are supporting the auto drivers ! The auto drivers vote for them and so, maybe it the way to go... Long Live Bangalore !!!

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By: critic
On: 03 Nov 2009 11:58 pm

Train City! LROG - Laughing Rolling on the Ground! The reporters and politicians should see how the sub-way trains are designed and operated in Newyork and Tokyo; Still preserving Central Park in NY and the a lot of beautiful breathing places in Tokyo! Some one, sometime back wanted to make Bangalore a "Singapore". Now they are trying to make it "Train City", you mean like a gujri-shed is it? :-)

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By: critic
On: 04 Nov 2009 12:00 am

BTW, I love Bangalore and I am saddened to see the city deteriorate, in past 20 years.

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By: natha
On: 03 Nov 2009 10:15 pm

politicians! only promises. NICE is a nice example of major mess up. Train City, my foot. we cannot get one airport to function properly. Make it auto city it is better.

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By: tojoe
On: 03 Nov 2009 04:10 pm

500 meter underpass takes 2 years to build in Bangalore.. Remember Indiranagar.. The Hosur fly over is being opened from July 2009.. The Nice Road is being built from 15 years... train City.. Rail City I hope one passes over my Grave.. i am sure it will be done by then

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By: Srinivas
On: 03 Nov 2009 04:05 pm

Well, as cities grow, it is needless to say that they need to be modernized. I really fail to understand the hue and cry behind this. Yes 50 years ago, Bangalore was the green capital. But what was the population then ? And what is it tdoay ? It has grown exponentially. Every Bangalorean has been sick and tired of the unending snarls and breaks in traffic today. Its taking its toll on every part of life. So if a MEtro comes along, it is definitely going to somewhat help ease this congested traffic. Well, if we want to keep arguing for the heck of it, we can do so. But we need to remind ourselves about the effects of inundating of people into our city. Well, what do the major citites in the world look like - Take London, New York, Sydney, Singapore, Paris, every major country has to grow to keep up its pace. Although I completely sympathise with fellow Bangaloreans for old trees being felled, now hardly anything can be done about it. the plan and the design about this dates back to decades and decades ago which again comes back to the original question . That was sufficient for the population at that time. Today we have outgrown in every possible way. So we need better infrastructure. Yes, creating this infrastructure could have been planned in a much better way may be years ago.. But.. unfortunately the myopic view of the responsible people about growing and modern Bangalore has led to this. Today its a mess out there. Lets hope train services inside the city will ease this

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