Hosur-Bengaluru metro feasibility study tender to be awarded soon
metro line project, which Tamil Nadu is very keen on, has moved a step ahead.
The Chennai Metro Rail Corporation (CMRL) will soon award a tender for the feasibility study after analysing financial bids from the 11 major firms that have applied to undertake the study, A Chellakumar, the Congress MP of Krishnagiri in Tamil Nadu told ET.
This will be south India’s first interstate metro. The 20.5 km metro line has been proposed between the industrial hub Hosur in Tamil Nadu to Bommasandra in Bengaluru.
Calling this a pro-public project, Chellakumar said it would benefit thousands of commuters who travelled between the two cities every day. “It takes nearly three hours to travel and is very expensive in terms of fuel, especially for labourers. The metro will ease their commute and also greatly reduce pollution,” he said.
Chellakumar has been an ardent champion of the project, raising it in Parliament and talking to both Chennai and Bengaluru metro authorities. The then Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai had, last year, agreed to a proposal to extend the Electronic City metro line up to Hosur, responding positively to a suggestion from the central government to consider the inter-state project. The CMRL floated a tender for the feasibility study in August this year.
