Namma Metro Phase 1
BMRCL · 42.3 km, 40 stations across the East-West and North-South corridors Also called Purple Line (original), Green Line (original).
- Latest cost
- ₹13,800 cr
- Last checked
- 19 Sept 2026
sanctioned, Oct 2016
re-checked every quarter
Not on record yet: original deadline. Missing data is shown, not guessed.
History
- Section opened
Reach 1 (6.7 km, Mahatma Gandhi Road–Baiyappanahalli) opened to the public — Namma Metro's first operational stretch. [1]
- sanctioned
₹13,800 cr whole project [1]
Funder: state · FY 2016-17
Context
Reported as Phase 1's sanctioned cost; may already reflect cost escalation rather than the original 2006 approval figure — see project notes
Sanctioned, released and spent are different things: an allocation is not evidence money was spent.
Sources
medium confidence This page is based on news reports or an agency's own report, not yet an official document.
Notes and caveats
The site's earliest-dated record, added deliberately per spec P9 (pre-2020 history is the main defence against the site being read as partisan). sanction_date is year-level precision only — "It was in 2006 that Phase I was sanctioned" (The News Minute, 2016-10-20) does not give a specific date. Other figures for this project circulate in search results — a ₹5,400 cr or ₹6,395 cr original sanction, and a ₹14,291.28 cr amount "spent by January 2017" — but this collection pass could not independently verify any of them against their original source text, so they are deliberately withheld rather than recorded on an unconfirmed basis. Only the ₹13,800 cr figure directly confirmed from The News Minute is recorded below; note it may itself already reflect cost escalation from the 2006 sanction rather than the original approved figure — the source does not make this distinction explicit.