Govt keen on white-topping, but no concrete plans emerge

With Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai chairing two different meetings with senior officials in the last two weeks, the state government’s inclination to white-top a fresh set of roads has become evident.

But it is not clear if the government would proceed with already tendered roads or would opt for different ones.

On January 12, a day after the chief minister’s first meeting, the Urban Development Department (UDD) sent a letter to the BBMP’s Chief Commissioner Tushar Giri Nath, requesting information about previous tenders for the third phase of white-topping. These tenders were submitted during H D Kumaraswamy’s tenure as chief minister, but the project was not carried out due to paucity of funds.