BENGALURU: New Year has begun on a happy note for Metro commuters.

on the entire Purple Line resumed normal operations on Tuesday morning.

B L Yashwanth Chavan, chief public relations officer at Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), said: "Train services between

and Indira Nagar stations have been restored today (Tuesday) from 9.35am. With this the purple line will have full service from Byappanahalli to Mysuru road and vice-versa".

BMRCL had suspended services between MG Road and

stations on the Purple Line since Friday night to take up the repair work at Trinity.

On December 9, “a minor aberration in girder alignment” following a honeycomb concreting defect (hollow spaces in precast concrete) was detected in a viaduct beam above a pier 155 at Trinity station.

BMRCL officials said repair work as well as procedures like restoration of track, signaling and testing of systems have been completed. BMRCL said all the concrete areas requiring attention were identified and steel plates were used to strengthen them as a permanent solution. “Other concrete areas were grouted. The effectiveness of the repair work was verified through nondestructive testing, instrumentation and trials by trains at different speeds,” the official adds.