Overview
- Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, who addressed the Assembly on Thursday, laid out a transport‑led overhaul that includes a revived township at Bidadi, new tunnel corridors, and a larger Metro network.
- The state is preparing projects worth about Rs 1.5 lakh crore, with HUDCO offering Rs 26,000 crore, as Phase 1 of the Bengaluru Business Corridor has 80% of land acquisition approved and tenders due soon.
- The plan maps a 109 km elevated corridor, 300 km of buffer roads along storm drains, double‑decker stretches scaled to 40 km, and a Metro buildout targeting roughly 350 km.
- Shivakumar pitched a Hebbal–Central Silk Board tunnel as the most viable fix for gridlock, citing Rs 700–800 crore per km construction costs, about Rs 3,000 crore for acquisition, and Rs 17,000 crore for works, with road widening called impractical because streets cover only 8% of city land under a 2013 high‑compensation regime.
- The government has cut waste‑collection contracts from 89 to 33 packages and fixed two disposal sites on NICE land and at Doddaballapura to streamline garbage handling across the city.