{"id":649436,"date":"2025-10-14T11:44:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=649436"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:14:29","slug":"bengaluru-metro-fare-hike-mp-tejasvi-surya-alleges-discrepancies-in-bmrcls-fare-fixation-report-calls-for-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-metro-fare-hike-mp-tejasvi-surya-alleges-discrepancies-in-bmrcls-fare-fixation-report-calls-for-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru Metro fare hike: MP Tejasvi Surya alleges discrepancies in BMRCL\u2019s fare fixation report, calls for correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The controversy over Namma Metro&#8217;s steep fare hike has reignited with Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya alleging multiple discrepancies in the fare fixation committee (FFC) report released by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL).<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the BMRCL managing director, Surya urged the corporation to &#8220;correct the discrepancies&#8221; in the fare revision. BMRCL had increased Metro fares by over 110% on Feb 9, later revising it down to a maximum of 71% following public backlash. The increase has made Namma Metro among the costliest Metro systems in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The controversy over Namma Metro&#8217;s steep fare hike has reignited with Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya alleging multiple discrepancies in the fare fixation committee (FFC) report released by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL). In a letter to the BMRCL managing director, Surya urged the corporation to &#8220;correct the discrepancies&#8221; in the fare revision. BMRCL had increased Metro fares by over 110% on Feb 9, later revising it down to a maximum of 71% following public backlash. The increase has made Namma Metro among the costliest Metro systems in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-649436","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\/649436","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}