BJP’s Tejasvi Surya criticises K’taka govt for delaying K-RIDE MD appointment

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], October 7 (ANI): Amid the traffic woes in Bengaluru, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and Yuva Morcha National President Tejasvi Surya on Saturday criticised the Congress-led government in the state for allegedly delaying the process of appointment of a full-time Managing Director (MD) at Rail Infrastructure Development Company-Karnataka (K-RIDE).
"In another display of lack of seriousness & intent to address Bengaluru's decongestion issue, the Congress-led Karnataka Govt has failed to speed up the process of appointment of full-time MD at K-RIDE," Tejasvi Surya said in a post on X.
He added, "K-RIDE, tasked with Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project doesn't have a full-time MD. Though a notification was released to appoint, upon my intervention with the Minister for Railways, it failed to comply with basic eligibility criteria."
The BJP leader asserted that the govt should make this a priority and re-advertise in accordance with guidelines issued by the Railway Board at the earliest.
"This displays a serious lack of commitment to improving #BengaluruUrbanMobility," he added.
BSRP is crucial and can ease mobility challenges in the city and can only be done with an appropriate full-time officer in place, he said.
"At this time, both BMRCL and K-RIDE, the most important public mobility infrastructure projects of Bengaluru do not have full-time MDs, but the Government is planning to build a 190 km tunnel road," Tejasvi added.
Meanwhile, the Karnataka government has proposed a 190 km long tunnel to ease traffic in Bengaluru.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar while addressing a press conference at Vidhana Soudha on Thursday said that the government will be inviting public tenders for the tunnel within 45 days.
Shivakumar further said that he has already met Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and discussed the same adding that the Union Minister "responded positively". (ANI)