BMRCL’s airport line is 7 times unlucky
ByNaveen MenezesNaveen Menezes / Updated: Jan 29, 2021, 02:33 IST
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As it awaits Central nod for 37-km project, the deadline for submission of bids has been pushed for the seventh time
For the seventh time in a row, the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (
BMRCL) has postponed submission of bids for construction of the Metro corridor to Kempegowda International Airport (
KIA). Officials have been re-scheduling the date for submission of bids from September last year, in the hope that the
Union Government would clear the 37-km Phase II-B project soon. But, that was not to be.
On Wednesday, the BMRCL rescheduled the last date to submit the bids to April 3, over nine months after the tender was floated in July last year. It seems unlikely that officials will open the bids if the approval does not come by the end of 2020-21 financial year.