BBMP Budget emphasis on improving Infrastructure
After much delay and dodging, an ambitious Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike budget was presented on Monday. This is also the first budget of the BBMP, formed after incorporating several areas into the city. The Budget lays emphasis on improving road network in the city. To address the infrastructure woes of the burgeoning metropolis, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has set aside Rs. 5,215 crore, which accounts for 62 per cent of the total budget outlay, for infrastructure works during the current financial year.
Construction of 10 multi-storeyed parking lots and easing traffic in 10 important traffic routes across the city — both at Rs 1000 crore each — are the big announcements. Plans are afoot to improve arterial roads that connect national highways to the State capital. The civic body has earmarked Rs. 178.24 crore for an elevated road from Sirsi Circle Flyover to Nayandahalli on Mysore Road. It will spend Rs. 3.95 crore to provide signal-free traffic between Yeshwanthpur and Goraguntepalya on NH 4.
While junction improvement works are proposed at West of Chord Road’s junctions with Basaveshwaranagar Main Road and Shivanahalli, the palike intends to construct 50 grade separators at various locations.The budget proposes to construct one elevated steel bridge between Minerva Circle and Hudson Circle to ease traffic congestion. Also, it proposes to construct tunnel roads between Majestic-K.R. Market and Majestic-Okalipuram. It has also proposed to spend Rs. 40 crore to develop approach roads to the international airport.
The budget promises to take care of pedestrians who are the victims of development, by spending Rs. 20 crore in the central business district to widen the footpaths and Rs. 24 crore elsewhere in the city. The palike will spend Rs. 200 crore for solid waste management in the next five years. It has also earmarked Rs. 200 crore for traffic management and vehicle parking.
The civic body through the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) will get 10 multi-storeyed vehicle parking lots under public-private partnership.The parking lots will come up on palike properties near Freedom Park; Gandhibazar Main Road; near Garuda Mall; Jayanagar Shopping Complex; Sirur Park Road; near Akkithimmanahalli Stadium; near Malleswaram West Temple Road; near Cantonment Railway Station; near Russel Market and Kumbargundi.
Source: The Hindu
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