Bengaluru’s Namma Metro has completed 14 years of operations, yet its progress remains painfully slow. Since its inception, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has managed to complete only 96 km of its network, averaging a modest 7 km (6.86 km per year).

Despite its crucial role in easing the city’s notorious traffic congestion, the project has been mired in delays, missed deadlines, and administrative inefficiencies that continue to cause inconvenience to lakhs of commuters.

October 20 marks 12 years since the opening of Namma Metro’s first operational stretch, Reach 1, connecting M.G. Road to Baiyyappanahalli on October 20, 2011. The launch was a historic milestone, signalling the beginning of South India’s first metro system and the city’s entry into the mass rapid tr

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