Where Will The Transport Hub (Bus Stand Project) Be Developed? Pumpwell or Padil: Check Out

Where Will The Transport Hub (Bus Stand Project) Be Developed? Pumpwell or Padil: Check Out

October 22: Managing Director Mohammed Nazir of Mangalore Smart City Ltd (MSCL) said that the move of developing an integrated transport hub (bus stand project) at Padil has been dropped and instead, it would be built at Pumpwell in front of Karnataka Bank headquarters.
Initially the proposal was to develop the transport hub at Pumpwell. Later, it was proposed at Padil. Nazir said that if the transport hub was to be built at Padil, private land had to be acquired. In addition, no private parties have shown interest to take up the project on a joint venture and therefore the project would be taken up on 7.23 acres of land available with Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) at Pumpwell. The MSCL would again send the ₹445-crore proposal to the high-powered committee of the State government seeking its approval to build the transport hub at Pumpwell under public-private partnership (PPP) model.
He also mentioned that the contract of the multi-level car parking (MLCP) project at Hampankatta had been awarded to R.K. Infra Private Ltd., Bangalore, under the PPP model. It would have provision to park 400 cars and 200 two-wheelers. Now, the MCC and owners of 22 properties in the old service bus stand area will have to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) before taking up the project.