Bangalore seeks partners, must help in development

THE ROAD TO DEVELOPMENT: Private companies will help in building roads and improving infrastructure.

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Bangalore: College student Vinutha dreads taking buses in Bangalore. “There are not enough buses, they are always crowded and they are never on time. I have to wait for more than 30 minutes for a bus to my college,” she says.

Vinutha, like lakhs of other Bangloreans, wants infrastructure in the city to improve. Be it transport, sewerage or roads Bangloreans want a better deal, and a new infrastructure policy promises to do that through public-private partnership (PPP).

“So whether it is roads, airports or ports or railways or any other infrastructure projects...the private company's will invest their money in infrastructures which will help the public," says VP Baligar, Principal Secretary in the Infrastructure Development Department.

The PPP will be used for new projects and ongoing projects. Officials say this would increase the scope of improving infrastructure.

"We have one outer ring road, peripheral road and maybe one inner ring road. There are many investors who are willing to build these roads on a PPP basis that will be toll roads. And if there are no red signals just imagine going around Bangalore in may be half hour, so it will be great,” says Baligar.

Bangalore has seen many experiments in infrastructure before but this is different. After a long time, civic agencies will give a greater role to private players in better use of resources.