The Karnataka government has sent a proposal to the Central government to build flyovers along metro lines to decongest the Bengaluru city, the state’s deputy CM D K Shivakumar said, according to a report by Hindustan Times.
As per the report, Shivakumar speaking at the mass grievance redressal ‘Government at Your Doorstep’ at Jnanabharathi, mentioned that the state government was considering building flyovers along certain stretches of Bengaluru Metro lines. “It has been decided to build flyovers on certain stretches of metro lines to decongest the traffic. A proposal has been sent to the Centre regarding this,” ANI quoted Shivakumar as saying.
Over the last few years, Bengaluru has been placed among the most traffic-congested cities around the world in several surveys and rankings.
As per the recently released traffic index by TomTom, a Dutch location technology specialist, Bengaluru continues to be India’s most congested city in 2023. In the report, the capital city of Karnataka stood at the sixth spot in the global ranking of the most congested cities last year. Last time, it was placed at the second position in the rankings.
While speaking at the event on Sunday, Shivakumar said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has made announcements regarding multiple projects in the state Budget to develop Bengaluru city.
“The BBMP Budget will be presented soon and it will complement the projects announced in the State budget. We are preparing a feasibility report for tunnel roads near Yeshwanthpura, Sumanahalli, Goraguntepalya, etc,” Shivakumar said.
“We have completed the mass grievance redressal programmes in 12 Assembly constituencies of Bengaluru city till now and have received about 20,000 pleas. The Chief Minister also conducted Janaspandana twice. A separate team has been constituted to look into the pleas received. The complaints will be taken up in a phased manner,” he added.
While criticising the previous BJP government in Karnataka, Shivakumar said, “You could probably hear only the promises in the BJP government but you would see our work now. Our guarantee schemes reach 95 percent of the people. The remaining 5 percent of the people are not being reached due to technical glitches. We are also planning to give a subsidy to set up solar panels atop your terrace. We have delivered as promised. We don’t do politics of emotion but of building livelihoods. Our government programmes are aimed at reducing the burden of price rise.”
As part of the ‘Namma Swattu’ scheme, the Karnataka government has taken up the work of conducting a survey of all properties in Bengaluru and delivering all property documents to people’s doorstep, he said.
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