The South Western Railway (SWR) on Tuesday gave as much as 114.472 acres of land to the long overdue Bengaluru Suburban Railway Project (BSRP) for the construction of its Corridor-4, from Heelalige to Rajanukunte in Bengaluru, making way for huge progress.
The Railways handed over the land to the Rail Infrastructure Development Company-Karnataka Limited (K-RIDE), which is in charge of executing the project, news agency PTI reported.
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“Also, the lease agreement for revised Railway land from 157.07 acres to 85.707 acres for Corridor-2 (Mallige Line) was also signed today. This transfer of land will help speed up the project, which is going on at a snail’s pace,” A source related to the project told the agency.
Union Minister for Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw, urged the Karnataka government to speed up the impending project in mid-March, after the Siddaramaiah-led government in the state postponed the project completion date from December 2025 to December 2027.
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“The state government needs to understand that railway is a technical subject and bring technical people in KRIDE. It doesn’t have people with high technical expertise. I request the Karnataka government to engage such experts so that the project work can be expedited,” Vaishnaw had said on the matter.
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“Bengaluru suburban railway project is very important for the people but unfortunately KRIDE at present lacks the kind of expertise it should have. We need people like E Sreedharan who transformed the public transport system in the country,” he added.
(With inputs from PTI)
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