Task force set up for infrastructure development

Task force set up for infrastructure development

Express News Service
29 Aug 2008 06:24:00 AM IST

BANGALORE: The government has set up a task force under the chairmanship of Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa to oversee Bangalore’s infrastructure development.

The task force, to be called Agenda for Bangalore Infrastructure Development (ABIDe), will include political leaders, NGO representatives and corporate leaders.

MPs Ananthkumar and Rajeev Chandrashekar,Ministers in charge of Bangalore, Katta Subramanya Naidu and R Ashok, Former Chief Secretary A Ravindra, Dr Devi Shetty of Narayana Hrudalaya, Kiran Mazumdar of Biocon, Ramesh Ramanathan of Jannaargraha, traffic expert MN Shrihari and Lakshmi Narayan of Bosch will find a place in the task force.

Principal Secretaries of Urban Development and Housing Departments, the City Police Commissioner, as well as heads of the Bangalore Development Authority, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewarage Board, Metro and Bangalore Mahanagara Transport Corporation will also be part of the task force.