Bengaluru Business Corridor project: Tenders for Tumakuru-Ballari road stretch to be issued in March

The Bengaluru Business Corridor Ltd. (BBC Ltd), incorporated to spearhead the Bengaluru Business Corridor task (formerly the Peripheral Ring Road) nether the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), has decided to divided the task into aggregate packages and contented tenders for stretches arsenic and erstwhile they execute 80% of onshore acquisition targets.

As onshore acquisition for the task connected the Tumakuru Road - Ballari Road agelong gains pace, preparations are nether mode to contented tenders for this 23 km agelong successful March. 

This roadworthy volition statesman from Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC), Madavara, and chopped crossed Ballari Road adjacent to Collins Aerospace Park astatine Venkatala, wherever a metro presumption is coming up connected the caller airdrome metro line.  An authoritative said that adjacent though it is piecemeal, this roadworthy volition assistance easiness postulation connected the International Airport Road and Tumakuru Road, peculiarly Hebbal junction, by connecting Tumakuru Road and Ballari Road done a caller road. This roadworthy volition besides beryllium tolled. 

“We volition tender package-wise. The archetypal bundle volition beryllium tendered, and enactment volition beryllium awarded erstwhile we person 80% of the land,” confirmed L. K. Atheeq, chairman, BBC Ltd. 

50% onshore acquired

Of the 576 acres and 38 guntas of onshore required for this 23 km stretch, till day BDA has taken possession of 308 acres of onshore connected the Tumakuru Road - Ballari Road stretch, including immoderate government-owned lands, achieving an implicit 50% of the target.

BDA had, successful 2007, passed awards for 943 acres of land, but not paid the currency compensation. Most of those awards were connected this stretch. As these awards person present go outdated, the State furniture precocious approved providing the compensation bundle being offered to different farmers arsenic ex gratia, implicit and supra the award. Moreover, the compensation bundle being offered connected this agelong is the highest for immoderate lands being acquired for the project. The compensation is simply a relation of the guidance value, sources said. The highest compensation is being awarded to Venkatala on Ballari Road astatine a whopping ₹15.6 crore per acre. This has attracted onshore losers connected this agelong to willingly springiness up their lands, sources said.