Bannerghatta Road has never had a rail-based link to central Bengaluru. The Pink Line will be the first, and on a corridor whose defining problem is road traffic that makes it the single largest change coming — structural rather than cosmetic. It is also, at the time of writing, not carrying passengers on any section.

The short version first: the elevated Bannerghatta Road section was due to open on 15 August 2026 and has been reported as missing that deadline, with late August or early September now expected. That is an expectation and not a commitment — a distinction the rest of this page returns to. Beyond it, what follows sets out what the line is, which stations fall on this corridor, and when the first stretch is expected to begin running.

What the Pink Line Is

Built by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), the Pink Line is Reach 6 of Namma Metro's Phase 2. Its 21.25 km or thereabouts run north from Kalena Agrahara on Bannerghatta Road to Nagawara on the Outer Ring Road, taking in 18 stations. The split between them is unusual for Namma Metro: 12 stations underground against 6 elevated, or roughly 13.92 km of tunnel to 6.98 km of viaduct plus a short at-grade section.

One ride, on this line, will join Bengaluru's southern suburbs to the centre and on to the northern residential belt; geographically that is what it does. The route leaves Bannerghatta Road through Jayanagar and JP Nagar, drops into the tunnelled central section past Dairy Circle, Langford Town, MG Road, Shivajinagar and Cantonment, then surfaces again through Pottery Town, Venkateshapura and Kadugondanahalli on the way to Nagawara. In engineering terms the elevated southern section and the tunnelled central one are two quite different pieces of work — hence the separate commissioning.

The Bannerghatta Road Stations

Running south to north, six of the line's stations fall on Bannerghatta Road itself:

• Kalena Agrahara — the southern terminus of the line, and the nearest Pink Line station to Bilwaradahalli at 6.3 km, though it is not open yet. It was named Gottigere in earlier BMRCL documentation, so older maps, tender papers and news reports use that name for the same station. If you are cross-reading sources, treat the two as one place.
• Hulimavu
• IIMB — serving the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore campus.
• JP Nagar 4th Phase — an approved interchange with the Orange Line.
• Jayadeva Hospital — the corridor's most significant station, and the interchange with the Yellow Line.
• Tavarekere — the northern end of the first stage, and the point at which the underground section begins.

Why Jayadeva Hospital matters

For anyone on this road whose work is in the south-east of Bengaluru, one item on the whole line matters more than any other, and this is it. Jayadeva Hospital is an interchange between the Pink Line and the Yellow Line, the Yellow running from RV Road toward Bommasandra along the Hosur Road corridor. Physically it is a multi-level structure raised over an existing road underpass and a double-decker flyover, with the two sets of platforms stacked above them — the first station of its kind on the network. What it does in practice is let a passenger from Bannerghatta Road change onto the Electronic City corridor without first travelling into the city centre.

The Two-Stage Opening Plan

BMRCL is commissioning the Pink Line in two stages rather than end to end:

• Stage one — the elevated southern section, roughly 7.5 km from Kalena Agrahara to Tavarekere, covering all six Bannerghatta Road stations.
• Stage two — the remaining stretch, 13.76 km from Tavarekere to Nagawara, which is the tunnelled central and northern section. Dairy Circle is a station on it rather than its southern end; the underground alignment begins where the elevated one finishes, at Tavarekere. The Greater Bengaluru Development Minister's stated deadline for the full corridor is March 2027.

Construction difficulty explains the order, and nothing more complicated than that. Twin bored tunnels and twelve underground stations driven through the oldest and most congested part of the city take longer than an elevated viaduct along a wide arterial road. For a Bannerghatta Road resident the effect is twofold: the corridor's own stations are expected to open first, and the journey they will initially serve stops at Tavarekere rather than in the centre. Until the underground section is commissioned too, this is a shuttle along part of one corridor and not a cross-city route.

The Current Timeline, and Why It Is Not a Promise

The elevated section — Kalena Agrahara to Tavarekere

All six Bannerghatta Road stations lie on this 7.50 km elevated stretch. The Greater Bengaluru Development Minister, Krishna Byre Gowda, set its opening for 15 August 2026. That is not now expected to hold: Deccan Herald reported in July 2026 that the deadline was likely to be missed, with the opening now expected in late August or early September and signalling validation still outstanding before the statutory safety inspection can take place.

Delayed again was the headline, and again is the word carrying the weight. There has been more than one slip, and that history is precisely why any date on this line should be read as an expectation rather than a commitment. The modality in the reporting says the same thing: likely to miss, expected in late August or early September, sourced to people familiar with the work. Nobody quoted promises a day.

Nothing rhetorical about again — it is documented. The published sequence for this stretch runs:

• December 2025 — the earlier planned date, missed.
• 15 August 2026 — the replacement deadline, and the one still carried by the reference entry for Kalena Agrahara station, marked to be confirmed. Now reported as also going to be missed.
• Late August or early September 2026 — where the expectation stands as this is written.

Two of the three targets have already been missed. That is the argument for checking BMRCL yourself instead of trusting a secondary source — and the station reference page has not caught up either, a category that in principle includes this one. Anything written about a date on this line carries a shelf life.

Kalena Agrahara, the station nearest this end of the road

Earlier documentation called Kalena Agrahara Gottigere, and on this corridor that is worth knowing: Gottigere is the postal head office for the project's own 560083 pincode, so it is the name a local will use and the name older maps and tender papers carry. The station is not an intermediate stop but the line's southern terminus, which is a genuine advantage for anyone boarding here — you join a train at the start of its run rather than one already loaded. It is elevated, with three tracks across a side platform and an island platform: Platform 1 terminates, while Platforms 2 and 3 run north toward Tavarekere. Its published address is Mantri Residency Road, near Sri Meenakshi Sundareshwara Temple, Classic Orchards Layout, Kalena Agrahara, Bengaluru 560076.

The published status is final stages before operations — civil work essentially complete, commissioning outstanding — which matches the reporting that what remains is signalling validation rather than construction. The station carries no interchange of its own; the nearest are JP Nagar 4th Phase (Orange Line) three stations north, Jayadeva Hospital (Yellow Line) four, and Dairy Circle (Red Line) five. From Nambiar's Beverly Green the station is 6.3 km away, and it is not open.

The underground section — Tavarekere to Nagawara

Twelve stations lie on the 13.76 km underground stretch between Tavarekere and Nagawara. The tunnels begin where the viaduct finishes, and Dairy Circle is a station along the way rather than the southern end of it.

Its date comes from the minister who set the 15 August elevated deadline. Speaking in June 2026, Krishna Byre Gowda put the elevated stretch at August 2026 and the full corridor by March 2027; The Hindu carried that on 19 June 2026, as did The New Indian Express, under a headline saying the deadlines had been pushed again. So March 2027 is a ministerial commitment reported by two national outlets rather than an inference — the best figure available, and still a deadline from the same office whose previous two have moved.

The record, in one place

Laid out end to end, that published sequence is the most useful thing a buyer can take from this page:

The New Indian Express headline on the June statement was that the deadlines had been pushed again, and two of the three elevated targets are already missed. None of that argues for ignoring the line: it is being built, and the civil work at the southern end is essentially finished. What it does argue, conclusively, is that no single date should be treated as settled.

Hence the attribution attached to every date here, and hence the last word belonging to BMRCL rather than to this page. Reference pages elsewhere lag: the station entry for Kalena Agrahara still carries 15 August 2026 — and anything written about a date on this line, this page included, has a shelf life.

That first date has already moved. 15 August was the earlier target for the elevated section, and the slip is there to let two things finish: outstanding signalling validation, and the statutory inspection by the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS). Neither is a formality. Carrying passengers is legally conditional on the CMRS certificate, and that certificate is issued when the inspection is satisfied, not when a calendar says it is due.

Statutory safety clearance, rolling-stock availability and signalling trials govern when an Indian metro is commissioned, and none of the three can be scheduled with confidence in advance. Namma Metro's own history follows the pattern: announced dates slip, then firm up only weeks before the service actually starts. A date five weeks out is exactly the kind that moves. So this page offers a window rather than a day, and names no single date for the start of service.

With trains running on the elevated stretch, the trip from Bannerghatta Road into the city centre is expected to take about 25 minutes. Bear in mind what that number is: a projection for a line that has not yet carried a single passenger. Read it as the designed intent rather than a measured travel time, and test it against reality once the service opens.

For a buyer this yields a rule as much as a date: do not underwrite a property decision on a metro opening date, this one included. Where the date does bear on your decision, check it yourself at bmrc.co.in, as close to the moment of deciding as you can, and read what BMRCL says rather than what someone says BMRCL said.

What It Means for the Southern Reach of the Corridor

Any project on the far southern end of Bannerghatta Road attracts two honest caveats, and Nambiar's Beverly Green at Bilwaradahalli is no exception.

First: Kalena Agrahara is the southern terminus, and the terminus is not the end of the road. Rail stops well short of the park country where the villa formats are. South of Gottigere, a project is not a metro-adjacent project; it is a project on a corridor that has a metro along part of its length.

Measured distances make the same point more precisely. From Nambiar's Beverly Green, Kalena Agrahara is 6.3 km away and is not open — due on 15 August 2026 and now reported as expected in late August or early September, on the timeline set out above. The nearest metro station in service today is 12.5 km away: Yelachenahalli or Silk Institute, both at the southern end of the operational Green Line. Read 6.3 km as a commuting figure only with the words not open attached to it, and plan instead around the 12.5 km. When the line does run, what changes is the corridor's overall accessibility and the way the market values road frontage along it — a directional effect rather than a walkable-station one.

Second: walking has historically had little to do with how Bengaluru's station catchments are served — feeder buses, autos and private drop-offs do that work. Whether a driver from further south uses the line at all comes down to parking at the terminus. Put that question to BMRCL rather than to a developer.

Checking the Current Position

The network map, the current commissioning status and fare information all come from BMRCL directly, at bmrc.co.in. Cross-read what you find there against contemporaneous reporting, not against project marketing pages, which are incentivised toward optimism and rarely date their claims.

The Nambiar's Beverly Green location page sets out how the corridor is laid out around this project, and further guides to the road and the buying process are indexed on the Nambiar's Beverly Green blog.