Thakur will review Bidadi project, land allotments made by govt

Thakur will review Bidadi project, land allotments made by govt
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Bangalore: A slew of projects such as the much-hyped IT corridor project, Bidadi Knowledge City, sites allotted by BDA and land denotifications carried out by the JD(S)-BJP coalition will now come under the scanner. Governor Rameshwar Thakur, who is overseeing the state’s administration, will re-evaluate the projects and has asked department heads to submit details.
“Meetings will be held shortly to discuss these projects. Some of government orders passed a few days before the Kumaraswamy resigned will also come under the scanner,’’ officials said.
The ambitious Hi-Tech City project, which was put on the back-burner, may get a fresh lease of life as it involves an expressway connecting the IT stretch.
Estimated at Rs 390 crore, the corridor was proposed from the Outer Ring Road, Iblur, to Electronic City Phase-II. With a connectivity of 8.5-km, the mini-express highway would cost Rs 35 crore. The project was envisaged to accommodate IT and BT firms as well as residential colonies.
The BDA had zeroed in on 1,097 acres for issuance preliminary notification land acquisition, but has been in limbo ever since it came to light that land had to be acquired under industrial category for the project.
This apart, the last cabinet meeting of the government approved the work contract of the Rs-23,000 crore Bidadi Township to a Delhi-based construction major.
This decision will also come under scrutiny. Thanks to former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy’s largesse, G category sites of BDA have been allotted to all and sundry and the last set of orders had 45 allotments.
In its last days, the government carried out large-scale denotifications of lands that were notified for acquisition by the BDA for various layouts and road construction projects. These denotification files will now be re-examined.