The BBMP office.
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Bengaluru: The BBMP has begun the groundwork to build a 7.5-km road on the buffer zone of the rajakaluve flowing between Hebbal and Hennur.
The civic body surveyed around 120 properties that will be acquired for the construction of the two-lane road by providing compensation under the Transferrable Development Right (TDR) scheme.
Officials said the notification for acquiring the properties, mostly vacant lands, will be issued very shortly.
As the 50-metre radius of the stormwater drain is considered as a buffer zone with no permission to undertake any development, the BBMP wants to make use of this vacant space to build the roads.
In the first phase, the civic body will develop the road between Hebbal and Hennur, which will be partly elevated, officials said.