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Bangalore Shining: Long on Promise, Short on Action

233134 — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:12:00 GMT

In his budget speech, deputy chief minister B S Yeddyurappa made big promises to the IT city.

He offered an underground expressway from Minsk Square to Hebbal Flyover that would enable commuters to zip to the new Bangalore International Airport (BIA) in about 20 minutes.

He also proposed an elevated expressway from Brigade Road to Central Silk Board. This, along with the Silk Board-Electronic City expressway was expected to cut the travel time for techies from the city to Electronic City to nearly 30 minutes.

Both the projects are still in the concept stage. Another dream project is to have a 30-km inner core elevated corridor connecting 50 important junctions in the city.

The Rs 3000 crore project remains a dream despite budget allocation for it. Bangalore Development Authority’s (BDA) only achievement in the year seems to be finalising the Master Plan.

Like all master plans, this also relaxed the green belt and opened up more areas for development. On the infrastructure front, a link on outer ring road was created near Magadi road and a flyover in Ramamurthy Nagar was completed.

The BDA shed some work load by transferring work on the peripheral ring road to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

BDA will now go ahead with land acquisition for the work and hand it over to NHAI to lay a toll road. BDA announced five new layouts and about 2 lakh low cost flats, but none of them were finalised.

Dead palike: Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) completed two years without an elected body.

The Government is using formation of Greater Bangalore as a convenient excuse to ward off elections to the civic body. The officialdom of the Palike has done little to enhance the quality of civic services.

Greater Bangalore is expected to have nearly 140 wards and political experts feel that the councillors from new areas would play a crucial role in BBMP.

But elections to the civic body would not be conducted before the State goes to the polls. In the meantime, Palike will be headed by a part-time administrator.

Administrator Dilip Rau too made news of sorts when he gave assent to policy issues like introduction of Capital Value System of property tax and revision of betterment charges.

Such decisions are normally taken by an elected body. Beyond Greater Bangalore, new townships and ring roads are being taken up by Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority (BMRDA).

BMRDA has finalised proposals on satellite townships in Nandagudi, Solur, Bidadi, Ramanagar and Sathanur. Nandagudi SEZ has already been given to DLF.
Contributed by:Basavaraj Itnal/ Newindpress
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Need Space? Go ahead, build bigger home!

233134 — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Lack of space in your house? You can now legally create more space. BDA’s Masterplan 2015 made the provision, while the BBMP has now come out with a break-up of how much additional space you can have in your existing or a new house: by changes to setback, coverage area, Floor Area Ratio (FAR) and height of the building.

To help people understand to what extent they are allowed to construct a building, BBMP’s town planning department has brought out a manual detailing the availability of the additional space.

In order to accommodate growing population in the city, the Masterpaln had relaxed restrictions on setback, coverage, FAR and height of a building. The owners of 20x30 sqft, 30x40 sqft and 40x60 sqft are more lucky, as they can enjoy all relaxations without bothering about the road width. However, for sites measuring 50x80 sqft and 80x120 sqft, the permissible FAR depends on the width of the road and the zone.

Prior to approval of the Masterplan, for a building measuring 40x60 sqft in the city, the maximum coverage area of the site was only up to 65%. Now, coverage area up to 75 % could be utilised. Earlier, the setback in the front was 10ft, 5ft each at rear, left and right sides of a site. Now, the setback for a building has been reduced to 7.2ft in the front, 4.8ft at rear and 3.14 ft on either sides of the site.

The FAR has been increased to 1.75 irrespective of the width of the road which was earlier 0.75 to 1.0 FAR, depending on the zone in which the site was located. The changes made in the Masterplan also applies for the existing buildings. The owner can heighten his building and have more FAR.
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Source:Times of India, 30th Dec , 2007

4 BBMP's 'Grade Separator' Projects Cleared in Bangalore

233134 — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:59:00 GMT

BANGALORE: Four BBMP projects worth Rs 116 crore have been approved by the Ministry of Urban Development on Friday. The projects are sanctioned under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.

The projects are the grade separators at Yeshwantpur, Gali Anjaneya Swamy Temple - Mysore Road, underpass at Nagawara road junction and at Hennur-Banaswadi-Ring Road junction.

With this, the number of BBMP projects approved is now 15, with total outlay of Rs 976 crore. Four more projects are likely to be cleared soon.

Rs 4 crore worth of property recovered: BDA has recovered encroached property worth Rs 4 crore in BTM 6th Stage on Saturday.

Officials said a shed and a compound wall, built on BDA land by some persons, had been demolished in survey number 46/2 and 46/3 of Arkere village in BTM Layout. The land measured 12 guntas.

Land recovered: BBMP recovered encroached land measuring 50-20 ft in ward 64 in Vinayaknagar on Saturday. They demolished four shops illegally built around Ganapathy temple. BBMP has not fenced the land.

Source-Times of India 22nd July, 2007

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