The state government in Karnataka government has fast tracked an elevated corridor road project to decongest city roads at an estimated cost of ₹25,495 crore, CM said claiming that the project aimed at providing effective modes of transportation and ensuring smoothening of traffic in North-South, East-West and central parts of the city. The total length of the first phase of corridor is 102.04 km and 92 acres of land required for the execution of project, which is being taken up under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode in January 2019 and would be completed by 2021. In this connection, the state CM had announced the allocation of funds worth ₹1,000 crore in his budget proposals for the current fiscal and in this connection he held a meeting of officials of various departments recently when he examined the presentation of Detailed Project Report (DPR) regarding elevated corridors and that ensuring that public property is not affected, the state has decided to go in for four lanes roads at places where it may affect many people and six lanes in the remaining stretches, he insisted.
