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New Delhi : Keeping in view the requirements of augmenting line capacity especially to meet the requirements of suburban traffic, Ministry of Railways has sanctioned the Quadrupling Project with a provision of two additional lines (one on either side of the existing 02 lines) from Bengaluru Cantt. to Whitefield  at a cost of Rs 492.87 crore.

As a measure to ease the congestion, it has been decided to strengthen the busy section with two additional lines between Bengaluru and Whitefield. This stretch of 25 km will involve 6 most important stations -Bengaluru Cantonment, Bengaluru East, Baiyyapannahalli, Krishnarajapuram, Hoodi and Whitefield. This will benefit 62,000 daily commuters in this section by making commuting within Bengaluru easy and faster, according to a PIB release.

The Project will be taken up immediately and planned to be completed within a period of 2 – 3 years. It will be a boon for the local public of Bengaluru specially those belonging to the IT hub of Whitefield area. At present, 146 and 94 trains are running from Bengaluru and Yesvantpur stations respectively of which 122 are of suburban nature catering to commuters.

A major portion of these suburban trains are running in Bengaluru-Whitefield section. In view of increasing commuter requirement, in last one and half year itself, 26 suburban services have been introduced along with 7 long distance trains in Bengaluru area. Recently also, 4 suburban  services  between  KSR Bengaluru- Baiyyappanahalli  and Baiyappanahalli- Bengaluru  have been introduced. KSR Bengaluru- Whitefield  railway line is now congested and its line capacity  utilization has exceeded 100%.

The project of Quadrupling between Bengaluru – Whitefield was sanctioned during 1997-98 but was pending due to issues of land cost / availability, etc. Though MoUD subsequently recommended for Transit Oriented Development (TOD) of Krishnarajapuram and Whitefield stations involving extension of Bengaluru Metro, it had been decided to drop the quadrupling project considering its non-viability.

In addition to the above, Ministry of Railways have, in the Budget 2018-19, had  sanctioned the  Doubling works around Bengaluru area which will augment the line capacity in the sections for running additional train services including suburban trains. They are:  Doubling of track between Yesvantpur – Baiyyappanahalli – Channasandra (21.70 km.) at a cost of Rs169.64 crore, Doubling of track between Baiyyappanahalli – Hosur (48 km.) at a cost of Rs 375.66 crore. An amount of about Rs 15 crore has also been sanctioned for de-bottlenecking works in the highly congested Bengaluru station to facilitate introduction of more services.

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