Rs 53.7 crore. That’s how a lot the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is ready to spend on consultancy corporations and monetary advisors as a part of Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D Ok Shivakumar’s Model Bengaluru initiatives aimed toward decongesting the state capital and streamlining mobility within the metropolis.
The BBMP has already spent over Rs 14 crore on getting ready an in depth undertaking report (DPR) and a pre-feasibility report for the tunnel highway and elevated hall initiatives in Bengaluru. This consists of Rs 9.5 crore paid to Rodic Consultants for a DPR of the 18-km Hebbal-Silk Board tunnel highway and Rs 4.7 crore to Turkey-based Altinok Consulting for the feasibility examine, which proposes a 170-km community together with the 46-km tunnel roads (North-South and East-West corridors) and 124.7 km of elevated corridors, double-deckers, and underpasses.
Moreover, the BBMP is ready to spend over Rs 9 crore after shortlisting Rodic Consultants as soon as once more for getting ready the DPR of the east-west tunnel highway connecting KR Puram and Nayandahalli. The BBMP can be set to incur a value of Rs 22 crore for consultancy providers from like Siddhi Consulting Engineers, Nagesh Consultants, and Infra Help for getting ready the DPR for 4 elevated corridors.
Additional, BBMP has additionally employed Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as monetary advisors for 21 weeks at a value of Rs 8.5 crore. This comes shut on the heels of the state authorities appointing BCG as monetary advisors at a value of Rs 9.5 crore primarily to handle monetary pressures and increase income to fund its formidable welfare schemes and infrastructure initiatives. The mandate was to boost tax and non-tax revenues, streamline expenditures, plug monetary leakages, and discover modern funding sources like public-private partnerships (PPPs).
In accordance with BBMP officers, New-Delhi primarily based Rodic Consultants, which was criticised for its “shoddy” govt abstract of the north-south tunnel highway DPR, has as soon as once more been shortlisted by the civic company. Actually, a three-member panel headed by BMRCL executives was additionally shaped to confirm the technical and different facets of the DPR. In the meantime, the federal government is but to formally approve the BBMP’s choice to go forward with the one single bid of Rodic Consultants for getting ready the east-west tunnel highway DPR. The New Delhi-based consultancy agency got here below extreme public scrutiny for an alleged “copy-paste” job of the north-south tunnel highway undertaking DPR. The BBMP additionally slapped a tremendous of Rs 5 lakh on the agency for a “compiling error” throughout preparation of the manager abstract of the DPR.
The civic company has shortlisted Siddhi Consulting Engineers for getting ready a DPR for an elevated hall connecting Outdated Madras Highway to Madiwala. Nagesh Consultants might be tasked with a DPR for a flyover/underpass alongside Kanakapura Highway, and Infra Help is shortlisted for getting ready a DPR for an elevated hall connecting Nagawara and Bagalur Junction and a hall connecting Outdated Madras Highway and Yeshwantpur.
“The target is to plan for highway infrastructure that can final in Bengaluru for the subsequent 25-30 years. We now have given the consultants 60 days to arrange the DPR for the 4 elevated hall initiatives. The federal government is but to approve it,” stated a BBMP official. The consultants have been tasked with growing complete visitors surveys, alignment plans, land acquisition schedules (if any), structural designs and different associated detailed subject research.
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In the meantime, the Karnataka authorities has allotted a finances of Rs 7,000 crore for the BBMP in 2025-26. Moreover, the federal government has stood as a guarantor for Rs 19,000 crore to help the BBMP’s Rs 40,000-crore tunnel highway initiatives.
Criticising the staggering consultancy expenditure, Satya Arikutharam, an city mobility knowledgeable, stated, “It’s turning into clearer that the yet-to-be-established BMLTA’s (Bengaluru Metropolitan Land Transport Authority) oversight is sorely missed by the town. The BBMP’s consultancy expedition just isn’t solely wasteful, it additionally severely hurts the reason for sustainable public transport.”
“Count on a number of Ejipuras dotting the town for many years if the federal government succeeds in pushing these half-baked schemes,” Arikutharam added, referring to the long-delayed building of a flyover at Ejipura within the metropolis.
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