‘Stupid Projects’: Greenpeace India calls out Bengaluru’s stalled infra projects

Commuters in the city likely experienced a sense of relief upon seeing banners and caricatures highlighting the halted infrastructure projects on Wednesday, April 1, Fool’s Day,

Commuters in the city likely experienced a sense of relief upon seeing banners and caricatures highlighting the halted infrastructure projects on Wednesday, April 1, Fool’s Day,

The banners on the unfinished flyover linking Kenchanahalli Road to Mysore Road (R.R. Nagar), which has remained stalled for over three years since work began in 2022, posed questions such as, “Is this development?”, “₹72 crore for this?”, and “Is this the future of youth?”

Commuters stopped their vehicles to take pictures of the caricatures, which soon became a talking point on social media and revived debate over Bengaluru’s stalled projects. “These projects are widely discussed, and concerns are raised frequently. We don’t know how many times the Kenchanahalli–Mysore link road has been brought up, yet there has been no progress at all, indicating that the problem goes beyond on-ground challenges,” said Ananya R., a daily commuter on R.R. Nagar Main Road.

The campaign ‘Bengaluru Rising’, spearheaded by Greenpeace India in collaboration with various civil society organisations, targeted 10 stalled projects throughout the city on April 1, known as April Fool’s Day, to symbolically highlight how the authorities were “fooling citizens.”

Greenpeace India labelled these unfinished projects as “stupid projects” and installed banners at these sites, featuring caricatures that reflect public sentiment about the stalled works. It held a series of workshops since October 2025, where it collected expressions of frustrated citizens over these stalled projects, terming them “screams”. These were turned into caricatures and banners, which were put up on these projects on Wednesday. 

“‘Stupid Projects’ are those where massive delays disrupt people’s lives, where costs have escalated outrageously, and where projects remain incomplete or fail to solve the very problems they were designed for. In the lead-up to the civic elections, we are calling on all candidates to engage with these concerns raised by citizens and not allow Bengaluru to be turned into a global symbol of stupidity,” said Amruta S.N., climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace India.