The state government has decided to drop the ambitious five integrated townships development project proposed to be set up at Bidadi, Sathanur, Solur, Nandagudi and Ramanagaram, adjacent to Bangalore Metropolitan and Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) area.
Briefing newsmen after a Cabinet meeting, Minister S Suresh Kumar informed that the proposal was shelved as the project failed to take-off even five years after its clearance.
The ambitious project was originally awarded to Delhi -based real estate giant DLF in 2007. Stating that ever since notification was issued to develop five towns as ‘integrated townships’ no development was allowed in the notified area, he said that all such barriers would be removed from now on.
He said that the notification to drop the project would be issued soon.
With the decision to shelve the project, the ban imposed on the development of private properties, including agricultural lands, in four towns around a 50 km radius of Bangalore will become fractious. “Soon, any development project to be placed before the Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority would be approved by government,” he said.
Suresh Kumar said, “In future, those development projects which are placed before the Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority adhering to all norms would be approved by the government.”
The minister, however, said the ban imposed on all developmental activities in and around Bidadi, where a pilot project was planned, would continue to be in force.
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