BENGALURU: The Ejipura-Koramangala flyover’s development — from drafting board to truth — is a perfect instance of bureaucratic apathy and redtapism undermining well-intentioned infrastructure initiatives.
Slated to be finished in April 2020, the project had a behind schedule get started as other govt companies failed to present the go-ahead on time. While visitors police took five months to clear the two.4km flyover billed to unravel some of the knotty visitors gridlocks in the town, civil police took 273 days to present permission for managed blasting.
The flyover’s tempo of development has touched off a Twitter debate. While Biocon MD Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw tweeted declaring the project is in the back of schedule via a year, former home minister Ramalinga Reddy, who represents BTM Layout constituency and below whose jurisdiction the under-construction flyover falls, mentioned that’s not the case.
Civic officials, however, say they are adhering to the 36-month project deadline given to the contractor to complete all works, together with the construction of piers (pillars), capping and asphalting.
TOI had on November 13, 2018, printed in those columns, a document, “Tardy development of Ejipura-Koramangala flyover exams commuters’ persistence”, highlighting how the project may take as much as two years to complete.
BBMP’s executive engineer (project) Nadeem Ahmed claimed the project is running as per schedule. Everybody has the best to mention the rest in media without ascertaining facts, he added.
He claimed the contractor was once issued a work order on May 4, 2017 to soak up paintings execution, but visitors police behind schedule giving clearance via another five months. After police gave permission on October 6, 2017, the pier-testing paintings took another two months.
Nadeem mentioned the civic company has to procure round 8,000 sq.ft land to present the overall touches to the flyover. “We have to procure 49 homes, together with round five,000 sq.ft space of St. Johns Hospital and hostels, a assets belonging to the central public works department (CPWD) and 948 sq.ft space of Indian Institute of Astrophysics campus. About 1,630 sq.ft of assets belonging to private people have to be got and BBMP has made up our minds to pay a compensation of round Rs nine,300 per sq.m as the homeowners have declined compensation in the form of switch of construction rights, he maintained.
Meanwhile, leader engineer (initiatives) KT Nagaraj mentioned paintings is on in full swing and the project could be finished round April 7, 2020. “So far, round 39 of the 81 piers have come up, whilst 241 of the 305 pilings had been finished. The project was once to begin with behind schedule due to visitors police delaying permission to soak up the paintings, but paintings was once being undertaken with none visitors diversion,” he mentioned.
The flyover alongside the 100feet Inner Ring Road will ease visitors between Ejipura Main Road–Inner Ring Road Junction and Hosur Road Junction close to Kendriya Sadana.
Slated to be finished in April 2020, the project had a behind schedule get started as other govt companies failed to present the go-ahead on time. While visitors police took five months to clear the two.4km flyover billed to unravel some of the knotty visitors gridlocks in the town, civil police took 273 days to present permission for managed blasting.
The flyover’s tempo of development has touched off a Twitter debate. While Biocon MD Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw tweeted declaring the project is in the back of schedule via a year, former home minister Ramalinga Reddy, who represents BTM Layout constituency and below whose jurisdiction the under-construction flyover falls, mentioned that’s not the case.
Civic officials, however, say they are adhering to the 36-month project deadline given to the contractor to complete all works, together with the construction of piers (pillars), capping and asphalting.
TOI had on November 13, 2018, printed in those columns, a document, “Tardy development of Ejipura-Koramangala flyover exams commuters’ persistence”, highlighting how the project may take as much as two years to complete.
BBMP’s executive engineer (project) Nadeem Ahmed claimed the project is running as per schedule. Everybody has the best to mention the rest in media without ascertaining facts, he added.
He claimed the contractor was once issued a work order on May 4, 2017 to soak up paintings execution, but visitors police behind schedule giving clearance via another five months. After police gave permission on October 6, 2017, the pier-testing paintings took another two months.
Nadeem mentioned the civic company has to procure round 8,000 sq.ft land to present the overall touches to the flyover. “We have to procure 49 homes, together with round five,000 sq.ft space of St. Johns Hospital and hostels, a assets belonging to the central public works department (CPWD) and 948 sq.ft space of Indian Institute of Astrophysics campus. About 1,630 sq.ft of assets belonging to private people have to be got and BBMP has made up our minds to pay a compensation of round Rs nine,300 per sq.m as the homeowners have declined compensation in the form of switch of construction rights, he maintained.
Meanwhile, leader engineer (initiatives) KT Nagaraj mentioned paintings is on in full swing and the project could be finished round April 7, 2020. “So far, round 39 of the 81 piers have come up, whilst 241 of the 305 pilings had been finished. The project was once to begin with behind schedule due to visitors police delaying permission to soak up the paintings, but paintings was once being undertaken with none visitors diversion,” he mentioned.
The flyover alongside the 100feet Inner Ring Road will ease visitors between Ejipura Main Road–Inner Ring Road Junction and Hosur Road Junction close to Kendriya Sadana.
'Koramangala flyover will be up, ready in a year'
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March 31, 2019
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