A high-level committee meeting headed by chief secretary Shalini Rajneesh on Monday decided to give nine acres of land near Hebbal to the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation’s (BMRCL) overlooking demands from prominent citizens including Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and former Infosys director Mohandas Pai and MoS Shobha Karandlaje, who represents Bengaluru North in the Lok Sabha.
The BMRCL which had all along sought 45 acres of land near Hebbal to build a multi-modal transport hub but scaled it down to nine acres in a surprise reversal of its request.
Shobha Karandlaje, Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya, Bengaluru Central MP PC Mohan and MLA S Suresh Kumar had sought a full 45 acres for the metro project in view of its strategic importance to reduce congestion in Bengaluru. Powerful real estate groups, according to reports, were said to have exerted pressure on the government to drop the transport hub project.
A high-level meeting chaired by the Deputy CM DK Shivakumar on May 5 asked BBMP chief commissioner M Maheshwar Rao and BBMP administrator Tushar Girinath to rework the design of the proposed multi model hub, triggering doubts in the minds of people about BMRCL getting the full extent of land it required.
In the past 15 months, the BMRCL has been sticking to its demand as it planned a mega hub consisting of a depot, parking lot and tri-junction connecting the airport metro line.
At the meeting chaired by Shivakumar, the BMRCL officials are learnt to have been told to drastically cut their land requirement and come up with a revised design for their transport hub project.
The BMRCL, in March last year, wrote to the KIADB asking for about 45.5 acres of land the KIADB had acquired at Hebbal and Hebbal Amanikere villages of Bangalore North Taluk for the company, proposing a state-of-the-art multi-modal transport hub, multi-level car parking, a modern depot, and other infrastructure.
The KIADB had acquired 55.13 acres of land for the projects of Lake View Tourism Company Limited. But the project has been a non-starter. The KIADB acquired 55 acre 13 guntas of land for the Lake View Tourism Company.
At Hebbal, the BMRCL had proposed the construction of three metro stations along the blue, orange, and red lines.
The BMRCL which had all along sought 45 acres of land near Hebbal to build a multi-modal transport hub but scaled it down to nine acres in a surprise reversal of its request.
Shobha Karandlaje, Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya, Bengaluru Central MP PC Mohan and MLA S Suresh Kumar had sought a full 45 acres for the metro project in view of its strategic importance to reduce congestion in Bengaluru. Powerful real estate groups, according to reports, were said to have exerted pressure on the government to drop the transport hub project.
A high-level meeting chaired by the Deputy CM DK Shivakumar on May 5 asked BBMP chief commissioner M Maheshwar Rao and BBMP administrator Tushar Girinath to rework the design of the proposed multi model hub, triggering doubts in the minds of people about BMRCL getting the full extent of land it required.
In the past 15 months, the BMRCL has been sticking to its demand as it planned a mega hub consisting of a depot, parking lot and tri-junction connecting the airport metro line.
At the meeting chaired by Shivakumar, the BMRCL officials are learnt to have been told to drastically cut their land requirement and come up with a revised design for their transport hub project.
The BMRCL, in March last year, wrote to the KIADB asking for about 45.5 acres of land the KIADB had acquired at Hebbal and Hebbal Amanikere villages of Bangalore North Taluk for the company, proposing a state-of-the-art multi-modal transport hub, multi-level car parking, a modern depot, and other infrastructure.
The KIADB had acquired 55.13 acres of land for the projects of Lake View Tourism Company Limited. But the project has been a non-starter. The KIADB acquired 55 acre 13 guntas of land for the Lake View Tourism Company.
At Hebbal, the BMRCL had proposed the construction of three metro stations along the blue, orange, and red lines.
