BBMP unscientific

ngalore:
Addressing media at the KPCC office on Friday, the Mayors expressed their unhappiness over the bus shelters that have come up in the City recently, and claimed that they had been awarded to private companies without calling for any tenders.

Former Mayors and Congress men, M Ramachandrappa and J Huchappa, on Friday alleged that Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike(BBMP) had embarked on several projects that were unscientific and dangerous.

Addressing media at the KPCC office on Friday, the Mayors expressed their unhappiness over the bus shelters that have come up in the City recently, and claimed that they had been awarded to private companies without calling for any tenders.

Ramachandrappa claimed that about 600 bus shelters in the city constructed recently, did not follow the specified format in design. “The earlier designs showed BBMP in front, along with the name of the road. But now, advertisements are everywhere. BBMP should stop treating everything as a source of revenue,” he complained.

They said the advertisers on these bus shelters paid Rs 25,000 a year as revenue.

Even the pedestrian crossings next to the bus bay at Nrupathunga road was dismissed as ‘unscientific’ and that buses would crash into them.

BBMP Commissioner S Subramanya could not be reached for comment.