Overview

• Greater Bengaluru Authority directed all five city corporations to accelerate pothole repair and fully utilise the ₹25 crore released to each, with detailed progress reporting and quality controls.
• After a joint review of the Silk Board–Hebbal stretch, the Urban Development Department ordered pothole patching, resurfacing, junction upgrades, drainage works, faster white-topping, removal of completed metro barricades, clear site signboards, an Iblur skywalk, and expedited fixes near Agara Lake.
• Officials commissioned designs for 20 access ramps between ORR service roads and the main carriageway, a move estimated to cut congestion by roughly 30–40% once executed.
• GBA convened WRI India and Astram to shape immediate and medium-term corridor steps, including relocating bus stops, removing encroachments, extending BMTC’s MF-1C, seeking VGF to expand services, and assessing a revival of the bus-priority lane.
• Enforcement and timelines sharpened as two white-topping contractors were fined ₹2 lakh each for unsafe sites, the Chief Secretary set an end-November target to complete white-topping, and the Deputy CM said about 7,000 potholes are filled with roughly 5,000 pending as BlackBuck confirmed it is relocating within Bengaluru.