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Work orders for the archetypal agelong of the Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) - Package 1 betwixt Tumakuru Road and Ballari Road are each acceptable to beryllium issued successful June, and civilian works are expected to commencement 3 months aft that. This volition beryllium the archetypal on-ground enactment to statesman for PRR, which has been delayed for implicit 2 decades.
Bengaluru Business Corridor Ltd. (BBC), a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) formed to spearhead the PRR project, had divided the PRR Phase 1 into aggregate packages and tendered Package 1 successful March 2026. “The method bids were opened connected May 6 and their scrutiny is ongoing. We volition unfastened the fiscal bids aft May 20,” said L.K. Atheeq, chairman, BBC Ltd.
The authorities has laid down a information that enactment orders for these packages tin beryllium issued arsenic and erstwhile BBC Ltd. achieves 80% onshore acquisition.
“Of the 665 acres needed for Package 1, we person taken possession of 523 acres, achieving implicit 78% of the target. Compensation is being disbursed for these lands now. Some lands are nether litigation and successful specified cases, we volition deposit the compensation successful the court. We volition transverse 80% soon. Once the fiscal bid is finalised, we volition contented enactment orders for this bundle successful June to whoever bags the tender,” Mr. Atheeq said.
The tender is simply a Design, Build, Operate and Transfer model, which means the contractor has to plan this agelong and hole their ain Detailed Project Report (DPR). This volition apt instrumentality 3 months aft the enactment orders are issued, pursuing which civilian works volition statesman connected the ground.
The contractor volition get 3 years to physique the 23 km-long agelong of the roadworthy betwixt Tumakuru Road and Ballari Road. It volition statesman from Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC), Madavara, and chopped crossed Ballari Road adjacent to Collins Aerospace Park astatine Venkatala. A metro presumption is coming up astatine this junction. This roadworthy is expected to easiness postulation connected International Airport Road and Tumakuru Road, peculiarly the notorious Hebbal junction.
Slow advancement connected different packages
Meanwhile, BBC Ltd. is uncovering it pugnacious to person farmers connected 2 different stretches — Ballari Road to Whitefield Junction (Package 2) and Whitefield Junction to Electronics City (Package 3) — to springiness up their lands for the five-option compensation bundle being offered. In Package 3, of the 710 acres needed for the project, lone 26 acres person been acquired till now.
While farmers person been demanding a currency compensation nether the The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency successful Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, BBC Ltd. has offered a five-option compensation bundle nether the Bangalore Development Authority Act, 1976, including currency compensation, Transferable Development Rights, developed commercialized plots, and currency positive developed onshore arsenic a package.
Sources said that the State authorities has ruled retired immoderate revision successful the compensation package. Meanwhile, the High Court of Karnataka, which has clubbed galore petitions challenging onshore acquisition for PRR Phase 1, is expected to determine connected these petitions soon. “The arguments are drafting to a adjacent and we expect a judgement by June oregon July. We anticipation this volition springiness america immoderate respite and supply momentum for onshore acquisition,” said a elder official.
