Karnataka government will release 50% of the pending bills of all completed works of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar has announced on Monday.
The contractors had stopped works in Bengaluru over the civic body not paying pending bills for the last 26 months and pendency touching a whopping ₹6,000 crore. The decision of the State has come as a breather to beleaguered contractors.
