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Publication: Times Of India Bangalore; Date: Oct 8, 2008; Section: Times City; Page: 2

No more roadblocks to BMIC

The cabinet meeting on Tuesday spelt good news for many.

While land was handed over to NICE to clear bottlenecks on theBMIC project, there was much to cheer about for BMRC too asMetro Rail extension was okayed. To put an end to the propertytax debate, the revised SAS finally got the official nod

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Bangalore: The Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) project is slowly getting completed in fits andstarts, thanks to protracted litigation and political machinations. But finally, theres light at the end of the tunnel.

The cabinet on Tuesday decided to hand over 102 acres of land to Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises(NICE), BMIC project promoters, to eliminate the bottlenecks on the link and peripheral ring roads (PRR). Thisgrant is restricted only to link and peripheral ring roads; there is no clearance for land grant related toexpressway connecting Bangalore and Mysore.

Home minister V S Acharya said except at Gottigere, the land will be given to NICE as per the SupremeCourt and Karnataka High Courts directions. At Gottigere, the court is yet to decide whether construction of abridge is allowed across the tank or to make use of adjacent forest land for road construction, he added.

Prior to cabinet clearance, the empowered

committee on BMIC headed by chief secretary Sudhakar Rao had given clearance to NICE to go ahead with

pending works relating to BMIC. Barring a few patches, where land was not made available by the government,NICE has completed the major portion of link and peripheral roads.

With this green signal, NICE is all set to take up the works in the bottlenecks. Due to stalling by theKumaraswamy government, the BMIC project was entangled in a legal battle for four years. The company hasfiled a contempt case against the state government before the apex court for disobeying its order.

Not willing to go against the SC order, governor Rameshwar Thakurs executive committee issued an orderpaving way for completion of peripheral and link road. The committee also asked Rao to take all necessarysteps for early completion of the rest of NICEs projects, including the expressway connecting Bangalore andMysore.

Interestingly, Yeddyurappas cabinet has decided to scrap the one-man judicial commission probing thealleged transfer of excess lands to BMIC. It also scrapped the Swiss challenge method mooted byKumaraswamy to stall the project.

MAIN HURDLES

Link Road: 9.1 km from SH 17 (Kavika and linking the expressway): At 0 to 0.6 km linking expressway andMysore Road near Byatarayanapura and Divitigeramanahally village

At 1.4 km, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) yet to communicate approval for diversion road at ringroad and integrating the bridge and the ramps across the Outer Ring Road (ORR), pending for the past 18months

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Between 2.6 km and 2.9 km near Hosakerehalli.

Between 7.8 km and 8.3 km near Hemmigepura village, required for formation of link road

PERIPHERAL ROAD: Total length 41 km, from NH-7 (Bangalore Hosur Road) to NH-4 (Bangalore -Tumkur Road)

Between 8 km and 9 km on Bannerghatta Road junction, near Gottigere village for formation of road, ramps

and slip roads to provide entry and exit to peripheral road

Between 15.4 km and 16 km near Kanakapura Road junction of Thalaghattapura village land required forramps and slip road to provide entry and exit to peripheral road and some land near U M Kaval village requiredto relocate extra high tension electric power line to facilitate construction of peripheral road and construction oframps and slip road

Between 23.4 km and 24.2 km near Mysore Road junction, clearance for construction of bridge acrossMysore-Bangalore road and some land near Kengeri for construction of ramps and slip road to provide entryand exit to peripheral road

Between 33.6 km and 33.8 km near Magadi Road junction near Hosahally Gollarapalya required for

construction of ramps and slip road to facilitate entry and exit to peripheral road

EXPRESSWAY: Land required for formation of road from 5 km to 13.2 km is 184 acres. And 100 acresfor formation of two interchanges. They fall in Gangasandra, Chinnakurchi, Vasanthahalli, Gonipura,Thippura, Hampapura, Talakuppe and Bheemanahalli villages. Government is yet to transfer land tocompany

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