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Bengaluru’s Metro Crossed 100 Kilometres — and the Loudest Argument Was Over Who Paid for It
The Story — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the 7.5-km elevated Pink Line stretch from Kalena Agrahara to Tavarekere (SG Palya), built at around Rs 3,470 crore, flagging it off with Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar. The six stations take Bengaluru’s metro network past 100 km for the first time; public services begin at 6 am on November 14.
The full Pink Line will run 21.25 km, with its underground section targeted for 2027. Two days before the opening, Karnataka said it bears 84 per cent of the metro’s combined Rs 77,891-crore cost across Phases 1 to 3, against the Centre’s Rs 12,600 crore; the BJP answered a day later that BMRCL is a 50:50 joint venture.
The Hindu’s headline, two days before the opening, is not the inauguration — it is the bill: the state’s Rs 65,291-crore share against the Centre’s Rs 12,600 crore, and a demand for greater central funding. No BJP counter-figure appears in its report.
ANI leads with the rebuttal in the MP’s own terms: a 50:50 joint venture, Rs 9,164 crore of equity from each government, and Rs 28,000 crore of loans made to BMRCL under a central guarantee — then widens to the Pink Line’s pace, around a kilometre a year.
Mirror Now frames the day as a milestone: 103 km, the second-largest metro in India after Delhi, the Jayadeva double-decker hub and the wider Rs 15,600-crore projects day. The funding dispute does not appear anywhere in its report.
Bengaluru gets six new stations and a network past 100 km, but the opening has become a Centre-state fiscal contest — 84:16 against 50:50, differing mainly over who owns Rs 28,000 crore of guaranteed loans. What to watch is the Centre’s answer on Phase 3 funding, and the underground Pink Line’s 2027 target.
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