Day after Gautam Adani meets D.K. Shivakumar, government amends two laws to clear legal hurdles for tunnel road project
The Karnataka government has passed amendments to two state laws to retroactively approve the Bengaluru North-South Twin Tunnel project. This legislative move aims to bypass legal challenges from petitioners who argued the project lacked necessary regulatory approvals.
Why it matters
The use of legislative amendments to bypass judicial scrutiny in infrastructure projects raises significant concerns regarding governance, transparency, and the rule of law in urban development.
A day after Gautam Adani, chairman, Adani Group, which has emerged as the lowest bidder in Bengaluru’s North-South Twin Tunnel project, visited Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar at his residence, the Karnataka government got Bills amending two laws passed in both Houses of the State legislature on Monday (August 24) to clear legal hurdles for the project.
Three PILs in the High Court of Karnataka challenging the tunnel road project had contended that the project was in violation of these two laws. The move has drawn strong condemnation from the petitioners arguing that this amounted to “regularising violations in retrospect”.
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