{"id":657630,"date":"2026-01-13T11:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657630"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:16:31","slug":"will-bmrcl-risk-fare-hike-ahead-of-civic-polls-metros-automatic-revision-rekindles-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/will-bmrcl-risk-fare-hike-ahead-of-civic-polls-metros-automatic-revision-rekindles-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Will BMRCL risk fare hike ahead of civic polls? Metro\u2019s \u2018automatic\u2019 revision rekindles debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: As Bengaluru heads towards elections to the five newly formed city corporations under the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), a politically sensitive question is resurfacing: will Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) raise Namma Metro fares by another 5% this Feb?<\/p>\n<p>The trigger is the Fare Fixation Committee (FFC) recommendations, under which BMRCL increased Metro fares on Feb 9 last year. Those same recommendations empower BMRCL to revise fares by 5% annually through an &#8220;automatic fare revision formula&#8221;, a mechanism that remains in force until a new FFC report is notified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: As Bengaluru heads towards elections to the five newly formed city corporations under the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), a politically sensitive question is resurfacing: will Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) raise Namma Metro fares by another 5% this Feb? The trigger is the Fare Fixation Committee (FFC) recommendations, under which BMRCL increased Metro fares on Feb 9 last year. Those same recommendations empower BMRCL to revise fares by 5% annually through an &#8220;automatic fare revision formula&#8221;, a mechanism that remains in force until a new FFC report is notified.<\/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-657630","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\/657630","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=657630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}