BBMP administrator Gaurav Gupta and commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad have directed officials to complete the eight-lane Okalipuram Junction-Fountain Circle corridor at the earliest.
Accompanied by BBMP planning section officials, Gupta and Prasad inspected the pending works of the three underpasses on Monday and held discussions with the railway officials.
In 2014, the BBMP joined forces with the railways to begin the eight-lane corridor project at a cost of Rs 103 crore. Though all the other works are over, work on the underpasses on the Bengaluru-Tumakuru and Bengaluru-Chennai sections are pending. Railway officials assured Gupta and Prasad that the Bengaluru-Tumakuru underpass work will be completed by December, while work on the Bengaluru-Chennai section is beset by sewage water and delay in shifting of the cables by KPTCL. They said it will take a year to complete the work.
