{"id":586789,"date":"2023-06-24T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T04:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=586789"},"modified":"2023-06-24T12:40:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T07:10:27","slug":"why-common-mobility-card-is-finding-few-takers-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-common-mobility-card-is-finding-few-takers-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"Why common mobility card is finding few takers in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>BMRCL officials say barring in Mumbai, NCMC seems to have run into a common problem across all other Metro cities. \u201cThis is probably because Mumbai\u2019s transport agencies did not have their own (smart) cards until NCMC was launched there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u201cThis is probably because Mumbai\u2019s transport agencies did not have their own (smart) cards until NCMC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586789","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}