An effort is being made to ensure that the New Anubhava Mantapa project at Basavakalyan in Bidar district — which had played a role in the mobilisation of Lingayat votes in favour of the BJP in the byelections to Basavakalyan and Maski Assembly constituencies and Belagavi Lok Sabha constituency held on April 17, 2021 — plays a role ahead of the Assembly elections next year too.
The government has given its administrative approval to the revised estimate of ₹612 crore for the project on Monday. Sources in the Basavakalyan Development Board (BKDB), assigned the task of implementing the project, said that the work order for the project would be issued on Thursday to the Pune-based B.G. Shirke Construction Pvt. Ltd.
“Since the foundation stone was already laid in January 2021 by the then Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, we are not following those formalities again. We will issue the work order to the contractor on Thursday and he would start the work on Friday,” Mr. Govinda Reddy, Deputy Commissioner of Bidar, told The Hindu.
