Five years after he withdrew the revised main plan -2031 in 2020, Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) finally called on global offers to take a ride in the consultant to prepare the revised main plan (RMP) -2041. The Office now aims to prepare and publish a proposal for RMP-2041 in six months.
The offer will select the agency through the process of electronic public procurement and the participating agencies that qualify, can submit offers by September 30.
L. Shasikumar, a member of the land -use planning, BDA, said that the agency would be given a maximum of four months to prepare the main plan. “Including the selection procedure, we are working on publishing a proposal for a public objection in the next six months,” he said.
While the BDA took over the basic map of the civic limits of the city through a drone survey from the Ministry of Land and the Survey, the settlement Directorate, Karnataka, attempts to create a similar basic map of the BDA area outside the civic limits through the exploration of drones, failed. “The agency to conduct a drone survey in these areas has been extended and we propose to the BDA Council to take action against the agency,” Shasikumar said.
Meanwhile, the BDA decided to use high-definition satellite images from the Karnataka Remote Sensing Application Center in the BDA area outside the civic limits as a basic map to prepare the RMP-2041 proposal, sources said.
Legal challenge
Currently, the main plan is valid in the city of RMP-2015, which is extended by ten years. The BDA published a proposal for the RMP-2031 in December 2017, but faced many legal challenges at the Karnataka High Court, because of the 74th Appendix to the Indian Constitution is the Bengaluru Metropolitan Planning Committee) the task of planning and not BDA. Even now, BMPC is not created and the exercise is likely to face the same challenges again.
Tod, new projects
When he withdrew the RMP-2031 proposal in November 2020, BDA said that since Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) was released with a comprehensive mobility plan (stroke), which included the development of transit (TOD) and provided higher far along the metro corridors along the metro corridors, which leads to exclusion that leads to this proposal that includes TOD. Five years later, at a time when the BDA finally began working on the RMP-2041, the state government introduced a premium compromising tod and the work on the suburban railway network took off.
Meanwhile, the state government has also undergone and planned projects of mega infrastructure worth more than 1 lakh crore, including a tunnel road that crosses the city. Sources have stated that the RMP-2041 will also include all these projects and Tods.
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Published – August 21, 2025 20:43
