GBA chief orders penalties for illegal road cutting

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Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) Chief Commissioner M. Maheshwar Rao connected Wednesday directed officials of each corporations to enforce fines and instrumentality disciplinary enactment against individuals and agencies recovered cutting roads illegally wrong its limits.

During a gathering with each corp commissioners, Mr. Rao said that applications received done the authoritative bundle indispensable be scrutinised carefully and permissions issued lone through the single strategy arsenic per rules. Any unauthorised road cutting, helium said, indispensable be penalised and the harm stretches restored by the offenders themselves.  

To wide abandoned and illegally parked vehicles, the GBA main directed officials to immediately float tenders for purchasing towing machines, coordinate with postulation police, and identify corporation-wise locations to statesman towing operations astatine the earliest. 

Reviewing infrastructure projects, helium said white-topping works, taken up successful 17 packages covering 140 roads over 220.68 km, indispensable beryllium accelerated. Of these, enactment connected 39 roads (79.08 km) has been completed, portion 101 roads (141.59 km) are successful progress.

He instructed officials to coordinate with assorted departments and begin work on stretches wherever enactment has yet to commence. He further added that most potholes connected large arterial and sub-arterial roads person already been closed, and the remaining ones should beryllium filled immediately. Ward-level pothole closure, helium added, should proceed connected a rolling basis.

Published - November 19, 2025 09:16 p.m. IST

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