Almost six months after the foundation was laid for the much-anticipated ropeway at Nandi Hills, construction work has still not begun as the handover of land to the Tourism Department remains incomplete. The alignment for the ropeway project was recently approved by the Karnataka government so that the Tourism Department could work on obtaining a No Objection Certificate (NoC) from the Forest Department while also working on land transfer from other departments.
The 2.93 kilometre ropeway will have two terminals — one near the Nandi Hills Road and the other on top of Nandi Hills. The lower terminal is expected to come up on a 3 acre 20 guntas land parcel which falls under the district administration of Bengaluru Rural (Doddaballapur Taluk).
Along with the terminal, in land spaces which span over 4 acre and 10 guntas (which was falling under Chikkaballapur district administration), Dyanamicx Ropeway Private Limited, the Special Purpose Vehicle which has entered a Public Private Partnership (PPP) with the Tourism Department, plans to set up amenities and a parking lot.
