DPR report of Bengaluru Tunnel Road
The Congress government in Karnataka is being criticized for the Bengaluru Tunnel Road Project. To reduce the traffic problem in the capital Bengaluru, the government started working on the Tunnel Road Project, for this the government spent Rs 9.5 crore and gave the task of preparing the Detailed Project Report i.e. DPR to a private company of Delhi. After all the surveys, the company has submitted the DPR but many flaws have been found in it, which has raised questions about the work of the company.
The work was handed over to a Delhi company
The Karnataka government had entrusted the work to Roddick Consultants, a New Delhi-based private company, and in November 2024, the company submitted a report to the Bengaluru Municipal Corporation (BBMP), planning an 18 km long tunnel road connecting Bengaluru’s Hebbal to Silk Board. An outline is given. Not only this, this report was prepared in just 3 months, the report was supposed to talk about the roads of Bengaluru but traffic data from two cities of Maharashtra was included in it, due to which this report has come under scrutiny.
someone else’s copy pasted
One page of the project report, while mentioning the traffic volumes on Malur Road, Guttahalli Main Road and NR Road, includes a reference to the traffic characteristics between Malegaon and Nashik, leading to allegations that the government and the company were merely gratifying on the report. and simply “copy-pasted” the project from some other city.
The project is worth Rs 12,690 crore
The tunnel road project, estimated to cost Rs 12,690 crore, is primarily aimed at reducing traffic congestion between two major junctions of the city: Hebbal and Silk Board. The proposed tunnel is designed to reduce travel time from 90 minutes to just 20 minutes. This will include three intermediate ramps for entry and exit at Mekhri Circle, Race Course and Lalbagh, which will improve connectivity with the North-South Corridor, but due to flaws in the DPR itself, questions are now being raised about the government’s intentions with this project. Are happening.
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