Bengaluru | Operations on entire Whitefield-Challaghatta Purple Line metro corridor to start on October 9

The much-awaited Whitefield-Challaghatta metro corridor (Purple Line) is set to commence passenger services on Monday.

“We wish to inform the public regarding the opening of passenger services on the two sections between Krishnarajapura to Baiyappanahalli, a distance of 2.10 km with one station in between at Benniganahalli and the other beyond Kengeri to Challaghatta a distance of 2.05 km with effect from 09 October,” Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) said in a statement on Sunday. With the opening of these two vital sections, the entire east-west corridor (Purple Line) from Whitefield (Kadugodi) to Challaghatta will be complete with a total length of 43.49 km and 37 stations.

The inauguration of these two metro stretches, much awaited for some time now, has taken a political colour now.