Notwithstanding the delay in launching the Metro services, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited has launched an awareness programme in Bangalore.
Notwithstanding the delay in launching the Metro services, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has launched an awareness programme in Bangalore.
On Friday, the Coordinating Committee of Residents Welfare Association of Indiranagar, the apex body of all resident associations in Indiranagar, got its queries answered by none other than N Sivasailam, managing director, BMRCL.
Participating in the event with much interest were the senior citizens who wanted to know about the fare, toilet facility in stations and bus feeder services. Sivasailam said that there was no policy to provide concession to senior citizen commuters, but other additional infrastructures would slowly come in place.
“Our first aim is to start the operations after which we will start building footpath 100 metres around the stations and toilets outside the station premises. Gradually, we will also have public amenities like ATMS, pharmacy stores under the tracks. These things are already in our agenda,” said Sivasailam.
However, he did not announce any specific date for the launch. “Other institutions who are involved in carrying out the inspections are taking their time to complete the work. Testing process, they (Commission of Railway Safety) say, takes two to five weeks,” he said.
Sivasailam said people should understand that Namma Metro was taken into the Central Law only during December 2010 and still he had not received all the six commencements of the laws to be followed. “It is now both the state and Centre’s subject and hence the formulation of a proper law for us took time, causing the delay,” he said.
Sivasailam also answered a few questions on delay in providing compensation to the victims of property acquisition. “BMRCL had given `100 crore to KIADB and property owners can claim the compensation from them,” he said.
The BMRCL chief announced that the Peenya Metro depot would come up soon and the northern line would be started from that depot. The southern and the western lines connecting to Hesarghatta in north and Byappanahalli in the east can only be built if the underground phase commences.
He said, “We will be conducting 1,000-2,000 blasts under the ground near Vidhana Soudha and Central College to bring up the underground stations and tracks.”
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