Articles by Varadarajan Raman

The Comprehensive Mobility Plan includes projects like elevated corridors and road widening that’ll lead to further environmental degradation. It gives less attention to sustainable options like cycling and walking too

This is a project 15 times bigger than the Steel Flyover, yet got cleared. What did the Karnataka government not address in the Environmental Impact Assessment of the elevated corridors project?

The EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) report of elevated corridors spans 345 pages, but it took authorities just two weeks to approve it and issue Environment Clearance to the project. This is despite the EIA avoiding a detailed study of many environmental impacts