Bengaluru: After scrapping the controversial Rs 1,800-crore steel flyover project, the Karnataka government now plans to construct underground tunnels to decongest Bengaluru, especially on the Airport Road.
Bangalore Development Minister K J George confirmed to News18 that officials contacted a Bulgarian firm and sought a feasibility report. The cost of the project is pegged at a whopping Rs 600 crore per kilometre.
The proposed project of four tunnels would be from Hebbal to Chalukya Circle (6 km), Jalahalli to Goraguntepalya (1.4 km), SRS Road and Pipeline Road, Peenya (2.25 km), and Nayandahalli to Majestic (8 km).
Though the Opposition agrees there is a need to decongest the city, it has questioned the tunnel project.
“These are fancy projects involving thousands of crores, it has to be looked at with suspicion. The government had not mentioned this in its BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike ) manifesto, this raises a lot of doubts. I can’t see the light at the beginning of the tunnel, forget the end," said BJP MLA Suresh Kumar.
Meanwhile, activists who protested against the steel flyover project are already up in arms against the tunnel project.
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