BMIC - losing relevance?

SH17 will continue to be 4 lane, the additional 2 lanes are access roads. Quality of pavement is fine, but unless they do a relook into various intersections, geometry & design (safety features like things like median width) on this road, and retrofit access control on this road it cannot function as a real safe artery. At a minimum, they could have copied specs of BMIC PRR. The double track is ofcourse a different issue and can be a real force multiplier. But it will still be a railways’ link. So, while existing services might transit faster, frequency enhancements will still be subject to whims of babus in dilli. My take on #2 & #3 is not to say that BMIC road is essential but only to discuss the constraints on SH & DT. Regarding #1, when first conceived I think it was more an idea to bootstrap infrastructure development in the region rather than decongestion. In anycase if Bidadi comes up and BMIC’s township comes up next door, it would only make Bidadi more self complete. And can only help Bangalore’s decongestion. But the BMIC’s activities have been notoriously opaque. Plus I am not too sanguine about cutting through Cauvery basin just like that. BMIC PRR, however, is a different story, and is a significant addition to Bangalore’s infrastructure. If the techies were half a vote bank the Gowdas wouldn’t have treated it with so much disdain. I am not worried about Kheny losing money any time soon. Even if BMIC works out till Bidadi, he still will be sitting on a considerable prime land bank. it is not irrelevant to bangalore and its relevance to bangalore does not depend on it going beyond Bidadi

NN, "I think there is a need to distinguish the strong arm tactics of the state government (like asking KSPCB to withdraw clearance certificate) and the genuine 'legal' queries that the government is raising." "Now, we all know that there is a lot of secrecy shrouded in this project but does anybody think that the Government has all the details?" These are very perceptive statements that clearly point out how the "govt" is going about the BMIC issue and also correctly highlight that there is no united sarkari machinery that is working in unison to undermine BMIC. Yesterday a babu was suspended for transferring 160 acres near Kengeri to NICE, yet again establishing that even HDK finds it tough to control the babus. There is no denying that politics and vested interests are driving all this. What i am saying is these have exposed issues that would have otherwise not come to light. And I would argue that, that is how "democracy" works. Even if it is a perverted instance of it, which is prolly protecting highly vested interests (like that babu who built a layout at gottigere, forcing BMIC to pass over the kere), it also establishes that you cannot easily bulldoze the system by buying up sections of the govt. There is no correlation between requirements, records, and transfer of land between BMIC and "govt" and requirements have been allegedly spiked whimsically thanks to babus who have received favours to fudge records and make concessions to NICE. Such a discrepancy can only come up with colluding babus. (babus who have received plum positions and gifts on NICE's roll are not really a rare species.) At the same time some other babus teaming with HDK(for a price I'm sure) have dug up files that in all probability forced NICE to concede yesterday, that it has deviated from framework agreement. I can see your point about the perversion involved in HDK using KSPB to his ends. But it is also true that EC was not published in kannada and even in english it is not public. As SB said, it is not clear which side to take. I would add you cannot take sides. Everybody has their interests, including entities like ESG, who have raised heaven and hell over gottigere but have remained silent even as they have dried up Hebbal kere in the middle of a breeding season to build a floating restaurant.