On Friday, Air Force authorities and Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka) Ltd. (K-RIDE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for transfer of the latter’s land at Jalahalli for the Bengaluru suburban rail project. The land is required for execution of corridor-2 (Mallige line) of the project from Benniganahalli to Chikkabanavara.
A press release by K-RIDE stated that the corridor-2 project has “transited from drawing board to execution phase.” Defence land at multiple locations such as Banaswadi Garrison, Airforce Jalahalli, and CQAE Yeshwantpur were identified for the first phase of the suburban rail project.
“The construction involving land acquisition, boundary wall construction, and various other preliminary works such as survey works, Geo-Technical Investigation, and Ground Penetration Report (GPR) have been completed,” said the release.
