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Infrastructure takes a hit — again!

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BANGALORE: Even as many an IT company eagerly awaits better connectivity between Bangalore and Mysore to ease the city's infrastructure problems, a few organizations, have claimed that they have found documentation, which proves the illegal nature of the Bangalore Mysore Infrastrucuture Corridor (BMIC) project.

These organizations include the Environment Support Group, the national alliance of people's movements (Karnataka) and Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha and Green Brigade.



According to them, the documentation reveals that excess land, amounting to nearly 10,000 acres, was acquired by Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (NICE), the company purportedly entrusted with the implementation of the project.



"The documentation includes correspondence, meeting minutes and agreements, many of which is between government agencies involved with the project and NICE, which is working on the project," says Leo Saldanha, co-ordinator for the Environment Support Group. He denied more details on the nature of these documents as well as its origin.



The group is planning to hold a press briefing to bring to light the documents and prove their claim tomorrow. According to a fax sent by them, key legislators will be present at the briefing along with representatives of the organizations. The fax also highlights their purpose as 'a private company has hijacked the government domain, destroying the livelihoods of a large number of small and marginal farmers'.



For the BMIC project, already mired in controversy, these documents, if proved authentic, could prove to be near fatal. It might be recalled that the state government had denied that it had assigned the implementation of the project to NICE on 10 March.

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