Overview
- The state issued a final land‑acquisition notification for the first phase of the Greater Bengaluru Integrated Township covering about 499–518.45 acres in Kempayyanapalya, Mandalahalli and Vaderahalli, a move reported on Wednesday that advances the project’s implementation.
- The Urban Development Department set minimum compensation at roughly Rs 2.07–2.14 crore per acre and has begun processing applications while many landowners continue to refuse payment.
- Senior BJP leaders visited Bidadi villages to back protesting farmers and pledged that a future BJP–JD(S) government would scrap the township if elected, turning the dispute into a major political issue.
- Forty farmer organisations are preparing court cases alleging the GBDA failed to obtain the statutory 80% consent required for acquisition and sustained protests that have lasted over a year continue on the ground.
- The project remains large in scale and contested: the GBDA has floated a Rs 26‑crore tender for master planning, the overall cost is estimated at about Rs 18,133 crore, and an RTI shows acquiring all nine villages could require felling nearly 200,000 trees with wide impacts on dairy and sericulture incomes.