Women waiting to board a KSRTC bus at Kukke Subrahmanya in Dakshina Kannada.
| Photo Credit: H S MANJUNATH

From ₹5,015 crore in 2024-25, the allocation for Shakti scheme has been increased to ₹5,300 crore in the current year, CM Siddaramaiah announced in the Karnataka Budget 2025-26 on March 7, 2025. Under the Project Majestic scheme, in a PPP model, Kempegowda bus stand will be redeveloped with a commercial complex and it will be established as a transport hub.

As 70 km of railway lines are intended to be doubled on the Baiyappanahalli-Hosur and Yeshwantapura-Channasandra routes with a total estimated cost of ₹812 crore, the State government is providing ₹406 crore for the same.

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The tender process for two corridors of suburban rail project in Bengaluru will be conducted this year.

The State government will also construct Automated Test Driving Tracks at a cost of ₹20 crore at Honnavar, Chamarajanagar and Chitradurga and an allocation of ₹12 crore has been made for the same in the budget.

CM Siddaramaiah said that in this year, 5 RTOs will be digitalised at a cost of ₹25 crore.

Strenghtening public transportation

As many as 14,750 new electric buses will be inducted into the fleet under PM e-DRIVE, PM-eBus Sewa and Externally Aided Projects. The capital’s BMTC will get 9,000 of these buses.

Further 1,000 new diesel buses will be inducted across different transport corporations of the State under the Gross Cost Contract (GCC) model. The government will also construct a new satellite bus stand in KR Puram under PPP model and state-of-the-art bus stand will be built at Banni Mantapa, in Mysuru at a cost of ₹120 crore.