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on the East-West corridor of the Purple Line as well as the South-North corridor of the upcoming Blue Line of

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, India. This will be an upcoming interchange metro station after Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Stn., Majestic having interchange with Purple and Green Lines. Around this station, holds the main KR Puram Railway station followed by some locations like KR Pura Hanging Bridge leading towards Hoskote, Tin Factory, ITI General Hospital and many more. This station under Blue Line is planned to be operational around the year 2026 (TBC). The Whitefield - Krishnarajapura trial runs were successfully conducted (under Purple Line) from 25 October for a month. This metro station (under Purple Line) was inaugurated on March 25, 2023 by Prime Minister

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and was commenced to the public on March 26, 2023.

History

Blue Line

In December 2019, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) invited bids for the construction of the metro station, part of the 8.377 km Reach 2A – Package 2 (Kodibeesanahalli - Krishnarajapura) of the 18.236 km Blue Line of Namma Metro. On 13 October 2020, Shankaranarayana Constructions (SNC) was chosen as the lowest bidder for this segment, with their proposal closely matching the initial cost estimates. As a result, the contract was awarded to the company, which led to the beginning of the construction works of this metro station as per the agreed terms.

Station layout

Gallery

A couple of this metro station pictures are shown below:- File:KR Puram metro station (March '23).jpg, This metro station under Purple Line of

as of March 2023 File:KR Puram metro station (Apr '24).jpg, LS:- Operational metro station under Purple Line. RS:- Under construction of this metro station under Phase 2A of Blue Line of

as of April 2024

Connections

This metro station is connected with Krishnarajapuram of

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network via a

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Entry/Exit

There are 2 Entry/Exit points - A and B. Commuters can use either of the points for their travel. * Entry/Exit point A - Towards KR Pura Railway Station side * Entry/Exit point B - Towards Whitefield Main Road side

References

External links

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (Official site)

''UrbanRail.Net''
– descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations. __FORCETOC__ Namma Metro stations 2011 establishments in Karnataka Railway stations in India opened in 2023 Long stubs with short prose {{Karnataka-railstation-stub