Peripheral Ring road: What Bengaluru can learn from Gujarat’s land pooling concept
As acquiring land is becoming a major hurdle in building a 73-km long peripheral ring road (PRR) around Bengaluru, the urban planners want the government to consider the farmer-friendly ‘land pooling’ model adopted in states such as Gujarat, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh etc. to undertake public projects.
A 78-km long Sardar Patel Ring Road, which encircles Ahmedabad, is one such project where the government returned more than 60% of the value-appreciated land to the farmers after completing the work in a record five years.
