Bengaluru: The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) on Thursday uploaded the detailed project report (DPR) for Phase II of Namma Metro on their website bringing cheer to a large section of citizens who had been demanding that these documents be made public.
The BMRCL released the DPR for all four extensions of Phase I, the Gottigere-IIMB-Nagavara corridor and the R.V. Road to Bommasandra corridor.
“This is a very good move, as people will now be able to study the DPR in detail. For those living along the Phase II lines, information about the station location, exits, execution of construction and reasons for selection of site for stations will now be clear,” said Sanjeev V. Dyamanavvar of Praja RAAG.
The fight for making these documents public had been raging for the past few months with Members of Parliament P.C. Mohan and Ananth Kumar also demanding the same. Even Congress Member of Parliament Rajeev Gowda had recently spoken in favour of making the DPR public.
“Good to see Metro doing the right thing in response to people power. Sad citizens had to fight for this in a democracy,” said Sridhar Pabbisetty, CEO of Namma Bengaluru Foundation.
In the past, BMRCL had stated that the DPR could not be made public as it was prepared by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) which cites DPRs as being protected from sharing under the Right to Information Act 2005. However, several other Metro companies had uploaded these reports on their websites.
