Bengaluru: Bangalore City Railway Station will be now known as Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna Station.

Rayanna, then ruler of Kittur in Belagavi fought against the British East India Company. He participated in the 1824 rebellion and was captured and hanged to death from a banyan tree at Nandagad in Belagavi district on January 26, 1832.

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu performed the inauguration along with with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, MP PC Mohan and MP Ananth Kumar at Railway Institute Ground, Okalipuram, on Sunday morning.  

Prabhu said that a joint venture company, in partnership with the Karnataka government, will take up new projects in three months’ time.
 
Ananth Kumar said that as many as Rs 7,000 crores had been invested in Karnataka in the last three years.

Kumar promised that the doubling of the Mysuru-Bengaluru line will be completed in the next six months, with the 156-km Bengaluru-Hassan line to be finished by the end of the year. The railway ministry is looking at “semi high speed railways” for the Bengaluru-Mysuru and Hubbali-Bengaluru lines.