“The delay in implementation of the suburban rail project is owing to issues in the special purpose vehicle (SPV) formed for the project between the State government and Railways. Anyway, this is a Railways project, and the State government needs to give full control of the Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka) Ltd. (K-RIDE) to the Union government for a hurdle-free implementation of the project,” said Tejasvi Surya, Bengaluru South BJP MP. He was speaking at a media interaction on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in June 2022, promised to complete the suburban rail project, which he said was pending for 40 years, in 40 months. The deadline for the project was recently revised to 2027. Mr. Surya said, “Going by the way things were”, even 2027 was an ambitious target, but blamed the State government for the same and batted for a complete “takeover” of the project by Railways.
