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Project Report Metros Stations at Bengaluru Apurva Bose Dutta, Architect, Bengaluru Photo courtesy: DKA Architects An Introduction to the Bengaluru Metro India is fast approaching Urbanisation - with rapid growth in population and in an attempt to decongest crowds, metros in major cities of the country are springing up. With Kolkata and Delhi already experiencing the benefits of rapid transit system, a number of Indian cities including Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai are fast on the track to attain the same. Bengaluru - India’s Silicon Valley stands tall amongst the cities which are brimming with metro work going on in full vigour. Apparently, several 76 NBM&CW FEBRUARY 2010
2005 and the Union Government in 2006, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) was founded in 2006 as a joint venture between the Government of India and the Government of Karnataka for the implementation of Bangalore Metro Rail system. The East-West Corridor starting from Byappanahalli will terminate at the Mysore Road Terminal whereas the North-South Corridor will begin at the Hesarghatta Road Terminal and end at Puttenahalli. Metro Stations by DKA Amongst the 43 metro stations being planned for the city, 11 have been designed by local architects - Dutta & Kannan Architects (DKA). This is indeed a major achievement in a country where such technical aviation designing is left to international architects and only a handful of architectural firms have been able to do justice to designing metros. It is common knowledge that initially all the metros stations in Bengaluru were given to leading architectural firms in the city to design; who came up with brilliant concepts but however exceeded the budget of 35 crores (for each station) that was permitted. This is where the Government had to reconsider the proposals and RITES, the general consultants for the project stepped in. It was decided that all the metro stations needed to be redesigned. Tenders were floated for the same and were won by L&T (an electrical and civil construction company), S N Bhobe (an electrical company who are also currently handling the Mumbai metro) and SNCL. Indraneel Dutta who did his graduation from Chicago, following which he worked in London for five years, is the principal architect of DKA. He says, “For an architectural firm to qualify for a project worth 1000 crores, MRTS proposals for this IT Capital have been in the pipeline for the past 24 years. Dating back to 2003, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and RITES (Rail India Technical and Economic Services) prepared a detailed project report for the Bengaluru metro rail with the proposal of two double line corridors: East-West (EW) and North-South (NS) with their lengths respectively being 18.10 km and 14.90 km. With a nod of approval from the Karnataka government in Mysore Road Station NBM&CW FEBRUARY 2010 77
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