In a blow to the Karnataka government and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar’s ambitious tunnel road project in Bengaluru, the expert committee appointed by the Karnataka Urban Development Department to review the Detailed Project Report (DPR) has said that DPR had been prepared in a hurry, relying on only four soil test points for planning the tunnel, far ‘too few’ for a project of this scale.

It also echoed concerns raised around the proposed project’s impact on one of the city’s biggest lung spaces, the Lalbagh Botanical Garden.

“Positioning one of the tunnel shafts within Lalbagh Botanical Garden needs to be re-examined because of environmental sensitivity,” it recommended..

The committee, headed by Siddanagouda Hegaraddi, Executive Director (Civil), Bangalore Metro Rail Corpor

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