Bangalore Metro Airport Line P2’s 100th U-Girder Launched by NCC
NCC Ltd. on Friday night celebrated launching their 100th of 730 U-girders for Package 2 of Bangalore Metro’s 37 km Airport Line (Blue Line) which will link Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) to KR Puram.
This milestone was recorded north of Yelahanka Station using a 27.90 long U-girder cast at NCC’s yard located in Hennur (view on Google Maps).
This new metro line, under Bangalore Metro Phase 2B project, comprises of 3 civil packages ranging from 11 to 15 kms. NCC was awarded 3 LOA contracts in November 2021 for 15 elevated stations & viaduct construction work, with completion deadlines ranging from 24 – 27 months.
11.678 km Package 2 connects Hebbal – Bagalur Cross (chainage 10072.00m to 21500.000m) with 5 elevated stations at Hebbal, Kodigehalli, Jakkur Cross, Yelahanka and Bagalur Cross.
This weekend I updated Phase 2A and Phase 2B maps to show the exact location of all stations – see here for Phase 2A (Silkboard – KR Puram) and here for Phase 2B (KR Puram – Airport).
NCC’s various teams began piling for construction in February 2022, cast the 1st pile cap in March 2022, and began casting U-girders for packages 1 & 2 in June 2022.
In Package 2, NCC will launch 660 U-girders for its viaduct and 70 U-girders at the track-level within the 5 stations. The very first U-girder was launched in May 2023 between piers AP700 – AP701 near Bagalur Cross Station.
This milestone was recorded in roughly 4 months after the 1st U-girder was launched. As I’ve mentioned in other posts – site conditions vary across the country, but for comparison with other metro systems where data is available, Afcons Infrastructure for Kanpur Metro’s Package KNPCC-02R launched their 100th girder in just 67 days (2 months) and 200th in another 63 days.
Just last week NCC launched Package 1’s first U-girder in Horamavu – see details & pics.
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– TMRG
How besharm these lazy folks are. they took 4 months for 2 months job and still celebrating? This is the story since the beginning with bangalore metro. With their snail speed the metro system has lost its usability. Traffic is worsening day by day and these two lines are not sufficient for commuters. Heavy rush has been making it a hell ride. There infrastructure is a story of no long term vision. They dont have coaches to increase number of trains. They didnt pre order on time and are still doing the same mistakes. Bangalore metro is a fail project and will never be a main medium of travel in the city.
Very much true sir.
With all due respect, since the government change, work is all dead slow due to all bitti bhagya schemes, who will tell this to e tale ketta government ge, yavdu two months job neev helta irodu..? July n August Alli purple line work change illa, yellow line is also sumne delay madta idare as it’s work is almost finished but no inspection yet.
Actually the delay is not a story only with this government. It was moving in Snails pace along the ORR stretch from Hebbal to KR Puram. It almost came to a grinding stop after killing the Poor Mother and a Child when they let the metal rods fall on the commuter on Two wheeler. The pillars were cast at very slow place. All these before the current government came. I am happy to see the pace going up faster – though it could have been lot more faster – so they have started showing real improvement. I guess NCC is the slowest. Still a long way to go.
True
Dear sir,
well noted your points.but do you really know what is the ground challenges that NCC is facing? its easy to comment sitting in your mobile but once visit our working site and see how hardly our engineer team is working to finish the work.
This is not the right way to comment, u better be polite and use ur words thoughtfully
TMRG can you please write an article about the requirement and availability of coaches for namma metro? Once the entire purple line will be connected from chalghatta to Whitefield, how will they mannage the frequency of trains? Because the total runtime and distance will be increased that means more new racks will be required to maintain the frequency, and what we heard is suggests that they dont have new coaches coming soon. They didnt order. Same situation is with other lines also. What kind of irresponsible management BMRCL have! They have no sense of urgency or responsibility and they have made a record many times by missing the deadliness.
Please write a detail story on coach issue regarding all existing and under construction lines.
Hi Sanjay, your views impressed me. i am a Civil Engineer with a Management degree and am an avid watcher of infra development Projects in Blr. Please email me so that i can connect with you. Best Regards. Girish.
Hi, trains have been ordered (part of CRRC contract) but delivery has been delayed. I think this topic has beaten quite a bit.
100 out of 730. 630 more to go. At this speed, God only can help.
FYI: Firstly the total scope have mentioned is wrong, You guys are unaware of the site condition and the practical challenge that NCC is facing. Simple blaming the Contractor is an easy task for any one who doesn’t aware of the practical challenges. Definitely hod will help as you mentioned
What’s the scope of Package 2? I’d like to correct.
FYI: Firstly the total scope have mentioned is wrong, You guys are unaware of the site condition and the practical challenge that NCC is facing. Simple blaming the Contractor is an easy task for any one who doesn’t aware of the practical challenges. Definitelyh god will help as you mentioned
Well said 👍
what point you are trying to make about practical challenges? I am sure NCC should know about tha challenges and the scope of work in which to complete the work, looks they will still celebrate 2 months jobs even it goes beyond 6 months.
NCC is the slowest among AFCONs, SNC and NCC .
SNC is making very good progress
Well done 👍