Karnataka scraps Rs 1,800-cr flyover plan

Faced with intense citizen protest, the Karnataka government has scrapped a plan to build a 6.2 km steel flyover at a cost of Rs 1,791 crore  here, a year ahead of the Assembly polls. 

The project involved cutting a little over 800 trees, to facilitate faster traffic movement towards the city centre from a hub that connects to the airport. Citizens had, apart from other concerns, made accusations of corruption in the proposed deal. The flyover was to be jointly built by Larsen & Toubro and the Nagarjuna group.

Karnataka is among the last large states the Congress party is