Rs forty lakh damage to BMIC road

Rs forty lakh damage to BMIC road
New Indian Express

BANGALORE: Farmers who damaged a section of the Expressway between Bangalore-Mysore in Thalghattapura police station limits on Saturday continued to protest against the project promoters, Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises (NICE) on Sunday.

The damage will cost nearly Rs 40 lakh for NICE to rebuild the road, a company official told this website’s newspaper.

The Expressway has eight inch thick asphalt and superior quality materials were used to make it, he said. Meanwhile, NICE has lodged a complaint with the Thalaghattapura police on Saturday night, seeking protection.

In their complaint, NICE officials stated that some anti-social elements have damaged the road and requested protection for the project works. However, police officials evaded media queries and preferred to stay away from the controversial issue.

NICE Managing Director Ashok Kheny refuted the allegations made by the villagers that the construction activity had damaged their roads and their tube wells.

Underpasses or over bridges are being provided every 500 metres of the Expressway and that will help people to cross the road, he said.

Maintaining that the alignment of the project has been prepared in a scientific way, Kheny said that land required for the project has been identified using the services of the satellite imagery wing of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA).

Meanwhile, NICE is going ahead with the inauguration of part of the first phase, the 9-km road between Thalaghatpura on Kanakapura road and Kengeri, on June 16.