VISION 2007

VISION 2007
At the Bangalore Today and Tomorrow summit, civic agencies gave a presentation of projects planned for the future. Here’s a slice of some schemes in store


BRUHAT BANGALORE MAHANAGARA PALIKE
Six underpasses proposed at a cost of Rs 131 crore
(Nagavara Ring Road, Kadirenahalli Ring Road, Puttenahalli, Prof CNR Rao Circle, Basappa Circle, Hennur Banaswadi) START DATE: March 2007 COMMENCEMENT: March 2007
Development of arterial 70 roads of 155 km at a cost of Rs 130 crore
COMMENCEMENT: March 2007 COMPLETION: June 2007
Inner Core Ring Road 30 km of elevated road at a Rs 1,800 crore
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: March 2007 Investment of 7,989 crore under JNNURM (Storm water drain network, environment management, urban renewal, road network, solid waste management, basic services to urban poor)
Gearing up for Bruhat Bangalore
Administrative blueprint is in place in 5 zones Short-term development plan Infrastructure Survey under way


BANGALORE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
New land acquisition policy. Under this policy, some proportion of the land acquired from landowners will be offered to land owners after development
BDA plans to distribute about 50,000 sites with 20 per cent area reserved for vertical growth with apartments. About 2,00,000 houses planned under the unique programme of budget housing for economically weaker section
(Eastern sector from Varthur Road to Sarjapura road to Hosur road of 4,560 acres will cater 1,63,589 housing units and 11,560 sites. Western sector comprising Mysore to Magadi Road, along the BMICAPA
Hi-Tech City Corridor connecting Electronic City for a length of 8.5 kms at a cost of Rs 140 crores will be taken up
Grade separators at Magadi Road junction, Agara junction and Iblur Junction will be taken up


BANGALORE METROPOLITAN REGION DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
The authority will take up first township at Bidadi and consequently Solur, Nandagudi, Sathanur and Ramanagaram. Institutional area, government offices, super speciality hospital, Institute of Rural Management and Global Apparel Village will be located near Ramanagaram:
An access controlled link from Outer Ring Road to BIAL with a 180 kmph design speed with flyovers at Challakere and Boyilahalli lakes will be taken up in 2008. In the second phase, it will be connected to City Core Ring Road


BANGALORE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT CORPORATION
1000 Volvo buses will be added to the existing fleet of 39 buses in phased manner
Modernisation of Jayanagar and Yeshwantpur stations and Domlur and commissioning of seven new stations will be taken up this year
On-line GPS-GIS based vehicle tracking system on all 4,000 plus buses to be taken up in 2007
Installation of real time passenger information system at 75 Volvo stops in the city Smartcard based automatic fare collection system on all buses for student passes, public passes and others on card