Karnataka Housing Board to build 800-acre township at Tubinakere.

Karnataka Government is planning an 800 acre township at Tubinakere, located between Mandya and Srirangapatna, to decongest towns and cities along the Bangalore-Mysore corridor.

'After assessing the entire Bangalore-Mysore stretch, we found Tubinakere to be well suited for it has a good amount of dry land for the township,' Karnataka Housing Minister M H Ambareesh told reporters in the State Secretariat.

Karnataka Housing Board (KHB) will be the executing authority and the place is well connected by train, located on the busy national highway, and has a Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) industrial layout. It also has a University of Mysore study centre.

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