UNI

Mysore, Nov 25: Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (NICE) managing director Ashok K Kheny today said he would commence the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) project from the Mysore side soon after the Government provided lands.

Speaking to reporters here after inaugurating 'Aakar 2006', a technical festival organized by the National Institute of Engineering, he explained the problems being faced in getting the lands. Various Government agences were tossing him around at different levels.

"The Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) asked us to approach the Public Works Department (PWD) as it was the nodal agency. When we approached them, officials there sent us back to KIADB as the lands were in its possession. Then the KIADB sent us to the Mysore district administration. The district administration says it has already handed over the land to KIADB,'' he said, adding that he had not lost hope and would go ahead with the work soon after the land was made available.

Regretting that he could not complete the Hosur-Bannerghatta road work within the deadline as a stretch of 450 m of land was occupied by bureaucrats, Mr Kheny hoped that the work would be completed shortly.

He disclosed that land for the township for IT companies coming up between Bangalore and Mysore would be alloted in July next year and the work would be completed by December.