From airports to metros, and coverage to schooling, former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh performed a key function in shaping the trendy face of Bengaluru throughout his tenure from 2004 to 2014.
On November 20, 2011, Dr Manmohan Singh flagged off the primary metro prepare from Baiyappanahalli to MG Highway.(Wikimedia Commons)
Singh, whose financial reforms made India a worldwide powerhouse, died on the age of 92, on Thursday.
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Reworking Bengaluru’s connectivity
One of the vital notable achievements throughout Singh’s management was the inauguration of Kempegowda Worldwide Airport in 2008. The airport, which has grow to be a significant hub in South India, marked a big leap for Bengaluru’s connectivity on the worldwide stage.
Singh unveiled Namma Metro, one other game-changing challenge for the town three years later. On November 20, 2011, he flagged off the primary metro prepare from Baiyappanahalli to MG Highway, laying the muse for a public transportation system that has since remodeled each day commutes within the metropolis.
Laying the muse stone for the ₹6,300 crore Bengaluru Metro Rail Mission, he had stated ”each different metropolis in India has Bengaluru in its sights and within the absence of decided, constructive steps, there isn’t a assure that the longer term shall be a continuation of the previous success of this metropolis.”
In 2017, he inaugurated the tutorial periods of the Dr BR Ambedkar Faculty of Economics College, contributing to the town’s instructional panorama, Deccan Herald reported.
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Singh at IIM-B
Manmohan Singh’s relationship with Bengaluru dates again even additional, rooted in his function because the monetary advisor to Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao within the early Nineties. Throughout this time, Singh introduced his financial imaginative and prescient for India on the Indian Institute of Administration Bangalore’s sixteenth convocation, the place he mirrored on the nation’s evolving challenges.
Having left India in 1987 for a global function with the South Fee, Singh returned to a nation going through vital political and financial instability. In his speech, he acknowledged the challenges posed by regional and social divisions, alongside India’s fiscal struggles.
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