Why common mobility card is finding few takers in Bengaluru

BENGALURU: National Common Mobility Card (NCMC), which was launched for the city in late March, is not eliciting the expected response, say officials at Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited.

Against 8 lakh in-house smartcards sold by BMRCL, only 4,500 NCMCs have been issued in Bengaluru till date. NCMC was launched during the inauguration of Whitefield-KR Puram line by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in March.

BMRCL officials say barring in Mumbai, NCMC seems to have run into a common problem across all other Metro cities. “This is probably because Mumbai’s transport agencies did not have their own (smart) cards until NCMC was launched there.