The much awaited construction of the Bengaluru suburban rail project will start in a couple of weeks. The Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka) Limited – KRIDE, the agency implementing the project, has issued a work order to Larsen & Toubro for civil works of corridor -2 (Mallige line) from Baiyappanahalli to Chikkabanvara.
The contractor will build 9.72 km elevated line and 18.55 km at grade line. The corridor has 14 stations, and construction will be taken up at a later stage. The design for the stations will be finalised in due course, officials said.
Sources at K-RIDE told The Hindu that an order for the construction work was issued on August 26. The tender cost of the corridor-2 is ₹859 crore.
