BENGALURU: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the 7.5-km elevated stretch of Namma Metro’s Pink Line between Kalena Agrahara and S G Palya, taking Bengaluru’s operational metro network to 103 km and making it the second-largest in the country after Delhi.Modi flagged off the train at SG Palya station and travelled by metro to Bilekahalli-IIMB station, accompanied by Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, Governor Sudha Yadav, Greater Bengaluru Development Minister Krishna Byre Gowda and Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya, among other dignitaries.At SG Palya station, the Prime Minister was shown a model of Jayadeva Metro station, a major multimodal transport hub that integrates the Pink and Yellow lines with a double-decker road and metro infrastructure. Shivakumar briefed Modi on the double-decker construction and the station’s interchange facilities.The Prime Minister purchased a QR-based ticket before boarding the train with the dignitaries.At the IIMB auditorium, Modi inaugurated projects worth more than Rs 15,600 crore across Karnataka. These include the Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express, four redeveloped railway stations — Chamarajanagar, Chikkamagaluru, Sakleshpur and Subrahmanya Road — and the 45-km Bagalkot-Wandal railway line doubling section.He will also dedicate the electrification of the 55-km Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya Ghat section, renewable energy transmission infrastructure in Koppal, Gadag and Bidar, an underground LPG storage cavern in Mangaluru, the Devangonthi petroleum marketing terminal and a compressed biogas plant in Bengaluru.
