Bengaluru: The defence ministry has agreed to part with some of its land here for the Karnataka government's infrastructure projects to deal with traffic congestion and other issues in the state capital. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gave the go-ahead to the state government for using the defence land but with the condition that the city civic body, BBMP, will speed up the process of providing alternative land to her ministry.
The land provided to the ministry should be equivalent to the cost of defence land given for the infrastructure projects. The land spread over ten places was very crucial for Bengaluru and negotiations in the past had not yielded result.
“We have agreed that the state government will give us equal value land. They will discuss in the cabinet meeting and give us a resolution that they will indeed give us the equal value land, which is by rule the defence requirement,” she said. “However, I have very clearly instructed my ministry to immediately allow construction and permission for work to happen,” Sitharaman said.
