Bengaluru: Inspired by the Clock of Digital Count ‘Metro Man’ e Sreedharan at the Metro Office, K-Ride, assigned by implementing the Bengaluru Suburban Railroad project, has been in January 2021, it will install one to track the number of days left for the deadline to remind Officials to speed up work.
But the mission statement – “Bring the Bengaluru suburban train project in 2,190 days (six years) – which adorns the home page of the K-Ride website (Kride.In) remains unchanged for almost a year now.
K-Ride is a joint venture from the government Karnataka and the train ministry City-Devanahalli, Byappanahalli-Chikkabanavara, Kengeri-Cantonment-Whitefield and Heelalige-Rajanukunte.
In fact, the project saw a massive delay despite being announced in the 2018-19 Union budget and cleaned by the Railroad Council in November 2019.
While project sanctions in October 2020, the center has stated that the entire project (four corridors).
Will be completed in six years (2026) and airport corridors (KSR Bengaluru City-de Vanahalli) in three years (2023).
But in November 2020, the Urban Development Department ordered K-Ride to take BYappanahalli-Chikkabanavara and Heelaligege-Rajanukunte in the first phase and two other corridors, which will run parallel with Namma Metro, in the second phase.
The source said the plan was to put the project foundation of the project before the BBMP poll and made at least one corridor operating before the assembly selection in May 2023.
Going with a slow job, this seems impossible.
In fact, the Chairperson of the BS Yediyurappa Minister in June 2021 stated that suburban railroad work would begin in three months after completing all tender processes.
Yediyurappa also instructed K-Ride to complete all the tender work and started BYappanahalli-Chikkabanavara Corridor in October 2021.
Although K-Ride officials previously said they would float civil tenders in March 2021, he missed several deadlines.
It will take at least three-four months to start working even after inviting tenders.
Amit Garg, MD from K-Ride, not available for comments.
K-Ride officials say two other tenders – the involvement of public consultants for the project and transaction advisory service involvement for the selection of entities for procurement, operation & maintenance of rolling stocks on the PPP model – will be completed at the end of October.
Disappointing citizens and citizens are disappointed with the delay.
Rajkumar Dugar, founder and organizers of NGO citizens for citizens, said: “K-Ride started the preparation work and other documents before approval, but there was no job that occurred on the ground even after a year.
They will not be able to complete all corridors in six years Activities The project, but it has not been done.
There is no clarity in the status of land acquisition.
Both the central and state must reveal whether they have a review of K-Ride to monitor progress.
They do not request or provide construction tenders until now.
The airport corridor should be a priority line , but there is no clarity on the diverge San suburban train in the airport building “.