Bengaluru, 15 May 

Pending regulatory approvals, the long-awaited Namma Metro’s Yellow Line is likely to be operational from June, for limited stops, said Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) Managing Director Maheshwar Rao M on Thursday.

“We are trying our best to get it running by June,” Rao said.

According to him, the worst-case scenario is that it may be delayed by a month, thereby starting in July.

Earlier Rao had said the Yellow Line would start by mid-May.

The Yellow Line, which will be running from RV Road to Bommasandra, has been repeatedly postponed. The delay in the arrival of the driverless train sets is said to be one of the main reasons for repeated postponement.

The first ‘Made in India' driverless train sets arrived in the first week of January from Titagarh factory in Uttarpara, West Bengal. On 13 May, a third train set arrived at Hebbagodi depot near Electronics City. Two additional train sets are expected to be delivered by the end of July, or early August.

Yellow Line, serving Electronics City, will be connecting the southern City to the rest of the metro network, is expected to reduce the City’s traffic snarls to a larger extent.