Rs. 8,015 crore for Bengaluru infra.

Despite being farm-centric, Karnataka budget has not ignored the Bengaluru city.

|“Our government proposes to implement Nava Bengaluru Kriya Yojane at a cost of Rs. 8,015 crore for development of efficient and consumer friendly infrastructure in Bruhath Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike within the next three years. Rs. 2,300 crore is provided in the current year for this scheme,” Chief Minister Kumaraswamy said in his budget speech.

“To increase the capacity of Bengaluru traffic system, our government has proposed to set up a scheme to construct six elevated corridors. To implement this scheme, Rs. 1,000 crore is provided in the year 2019-20,” he said.

The State government has proposed to construct Peripheral Ring Road with an estimated cost of Rs. 17,200 crore, including its maintenance expenditure and this would result in reducing traffic congestion in the city. “For this purpose, Rs. 1,000 crore is provided in the year 2019-20,” said Kumaraswamy.

In order to avoid chaos during the rainy season, budget proposes to reconstruct large, comprehensive storm water canals within three years with assistance of Externally Aided Projects (EAP) to prevent incidences of rain flooding in all the Corporations including Bruhath Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.

The existing Bengaluru Metro Rail route has 42.3-km network and on an average 3.75 lakh passengers are commuting every day.

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