{"id":450551,"date":"2021-11-18T12:14:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T06:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450551"},"modified":"2021-11-18T12:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T06:44:06","slug":"namma-metros-airport-line-work-to-start-in-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/namma-metros-airport-line-work-to-start-in-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Namma Metro\u2019s airport line work to start in three months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The work on the much-sought-after Namma Metro line to the Kempegowda International Airport will start in three months, and the civil works contract has been bagged by Hyderabad-based NCC Ltd (previously known as Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited). The stretch will meet the December 2024 deadline, said Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) Managing Director Anjum Parwez. <\/p>\n<p>Parwez said, \u201cWe handed over the Letter of Agreement to NCC Ltd today (Wednesday). The Phase-2B line is divided into three packages, all of which have been awarded to NCC.\u201d The total contract, which runs to nearly Rs 2,200 crore, involves the construction of 38.44-km elevated line from KR Puram to Kempegowda International Airport (Blue Line). The opening of tenders had been postponed several times over the last one-and-a-half years due to Covid and other reasons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The work on the much-sought-after Namma Metro line to the Kempegowda International Airport will start in three months, and the civil works contract has been bagged by Hyderabad-based NCC Ltd (previously known as Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited). The stretch will meet the December 2024 deadline, said Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) Managing Director Anjum Parwez. Parwez said, \u201cWe handed over the Letter of Agreement to NCC Ltd today (Wednesday). The Phase-2B line is divided into three packages, all of which have been awarded to NCC.\u201d The total contract, which runs to nearly Rs 2,200 crore, involves the construction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}