BBMP revisits white-topping after ‘rapid road’ experiment fails

With the failure of the BBMP’s ‘rapid road’ experiment in Old Madras Road near Indiranagar, the government wants to undertake white-topping using the old method.

In a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai reportedly consented to the third phase of the white-topping project tendered in 2019.

The third phase of the project comprising 89 roads was estimated at Rs 1,155 crore as per the 2019 tenders. It has now been revised to Rs 1,429 crore to fit the 2022-23 scheduled rates (SR).

Tendered during H D Kumaraswamy’s tenure, the third phase was put in cold storage by the B S Yediyurappa’s government. After Bommai took over the reins of the state government,