Bilwaradahalli, Bannerghatta Road

Between Gottigere and Bannerghatta, on the southern reach of Bannerghatta Road in south Bangalore, Bilwaradahalli is one of a string of villages. Pincode 560083, postal head office Gottigere; the Bangalore South assembly constituency and the Bangalore Rural parliamentary constituency; ground standing at roughly 900 m above sea level, as Bengaluru generally does — high, dry Deccan plateau country. Nothing about it reads as suburb, because it is not one. This is granite-and-farmland country on the edge of the Bannerghatta green belt, turning residential from the Gottigere end southward one gated scheme at a time ever since the city pushed past the NICE Road. Nambiar's Beverly Green stands here, geo-tagged at 12.823744° N, 77.571837° E, 3 km from the Bannerghatta Nature Camp.

Bilwaradahalli at a Glance

• Locality: Bilwaradahalli, on Bannerghatta Road, south Bangalore.
• Pincode: 560083; postal head office Gottigere.
• Constituencies: Bangalore South assembly; Bangalore Rural parliamentary.
• Elevation: no village-level figure is published that we can verify. Bengaluru as a whole stands at roughly 900 m on the southern Deccan plateau.
• Road: Bannerghatta Road — State Highway 87 — is the only arterial serving the pocket.
• Coordinates of the project: 12.823744° N, 77.571837° E.
• Measured distances we publish: 3 km to the Bannerghatta Nature Camp; ten school distances by car and by bike — the nearest, Ryan International School, at 3 km; eight hospital distances, the nearest Medax Hospitals, Gottigere at 5.9 km; six mall distances, the nearest Royal Meenakshi Mall at 7.5 km; six tech-park distances, the nearest Primeco Towers at 10.6 km; and three metro stations — 12.5 km to Yelachenahalli and to Silk Institute, both operational on the Green Line, and 6.3 km to Kalena Agrahara on the Pink Line, which is not open yet; and three BMTC bus stops — 190 m to Bilavaradahalli Cross, which is limited at about fourteen departures a day, 1.5 km to Bilavaradahalli and 2.3 km to Bannerughatta Circle. Travel times are published for the ten schools, eight hospitals and six tech parks, and are typical figures that vary with traffic and time of day; malls are distance-only. The airport is 68 km away, 2 h by car and 1 h 58 min by bike, and Electronic City is 15 km, 30 min by car and 30 min by bike. That is thirty-nine measured distances, and every landmark this site names carries one of them.

What the Pocket Is Actually Like

Head south past Gottigere and the change announces itself within a kilometre or two. The continuous shopfronts end. The apartment towers end. In their place comes highway frontage full of gaps — fields, plantation, granite outcrops, a village settlement, then more open ground. Bilwaradahalli is one of those settlements, and its built form is low: village houses, sheds, small farm holdings, a scattering of new compound walls where land has been consolidated for gated schemes. Nothing here works as a high street in the way Jayanagar or JP Nagar has one. There is a road, and things are arranged along it.

That cuts both ways, and the consequences are practical. On one side: air and noise markedly better than anywhere on the built stretch of the corridor, long sightlines, and none of the construction density that makes a central Bangalore summer unpleasant. On the other: everything institutional — the multi-speciality hospitals, the malls, the metro terminus under construction — lies north of you on the same road, so a car is not optional. Retail here is genuinely local, running to provision stores, a chemist and small eateries, with anything at weekly-shop scale concentrated at Gottigere and Kalena Agrahara.

The 560083 Neighbourhood

The pincode is shared with the settlements around it — Bannerghatta, Kalkere, Ragihalli, Sakalavara and their neighbours — a cluster of villages on and about the last stretch of SH-87 before the national park, served from the postal head office at Gottigere further north. What matters about that is the underlying geography: this is a village-and-highway pattern rather than a planned-layout one. Land is held in survey numbers, boundaries follow old field lines, and residential development has arrived as discrete gated schemes rather than as a continuous built-out grid. Hence two plots a kilometre apart can be entirely different propositions, and hence the specific scheme, its approvals and its khata count for more than the locality name.

The Green Belt on the Doorstep

Comparable distances out on other Bangalore arterials filled in completely; this pocket did not, and the reason lies at the end of the road. Bannerghatta National Park covers 260.51 sq km, contiguous with the Talli reserve forest to its south-east and the Bilikal forest to its south, and within it the Bannerghatta Biological Park — zoo, safari, butterfly park and rescue centre — occupies 731.88 hectares carved out in 2002. Because the road runs into protected forest instead of into the next suburb, there is a hard southern limit on how far the built city can travel down this corridor. That is geography rather than a marketing claim, and it is durable.

Two cautions travel with that. The first concerns the Eco-Sensitive Zone notified around the national park, which has been revised and whose extent has been contested and re-examined; we make no claim about whether this site falls inside or outside the notified zone, for the simple reason that we do not hold the notification map. The detail is on the Bannerghatta National Park page, and the boundary should be verified against the sanctioned plan before you commit. The second is that a forest edge is a living edge: traffic toward the Biological Park runs heavier at weekends than midweek, and the interface between farmland and forest in this part of Karnataka is a real one that the Forest Department manages actively.

Everyday Life at Bilwaradahalli

Schools

Schools along the corridor are a real set, several of them carrying 560083 addresses on Bannerghatta Road itself: Sherwood High at Basavanapura near the NICE Road junction, Radcliffe International School at the 15th Milestone, Sarala Birla Academy on the Bannerghatta–Jigani road, and the Global Indian International School campus at Gollahalli. A further ten carry measured distances from the site, by car and by bike — Ryan International School at 3 km, EuroSchool Bannerghatta at 4 km, then ORCHIDS The International School and Chrysalis High School at 4.1 km. Both the distance table and the addresses for the schools we have not measured are on the schools page.

Healthcare

For day-to-day medical care, Gottigere and Kalena Agrahara serve locally. The nearest hospital with a measured distance is Medax Hospitals, Gottigere, at 5.9 km and 20 minutes by car; after it come Noble Multispecialty Hospital at 6.8 km and 23 minutes and Sri Sairam Hospital, Hulimavu at 9.7 km and 32 minutes. Narayana Nethralaya at 7.3 km is an eye hospital and not a general multispecialty. Vijayashree Hospital on Bannerghatta Road at Gottigere carries no measured distance and is given by address. Large multi-speciality care lies further north on the same road: Fortis at 10.1 km and 37 minutes, Apollo at 10.9 km and 41 minutes, and the Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences at the Outer Ring Road junction, again by address. Travel times are typical and vary with traffic and time of day. All eight are tabulated on the hospitals page.

Getting Around

The pocket is on a bus route — BMTC runs the length of Bannerghatta Road out to Bannerghatta — but services thin the further south you go. Bilavaradahalli Cross is 190 m from the project's main gate, a two-minute walk, and it is thinly served: about fourteen departures a day across the 371-A, 371-C and 371-D to KR Market and Kempegowda Bus Station, the 398-B to Chandapura and Kaggalipura, and the 211-NB. The frequent Majestic routes run from Bilavaradahalli, 1.5 km away, and Bannerughatta Circle, 2.3 km away, the latter being where the KIA-14A leaves for the airport as well. Anyone depending on a bus daily should plan around those two rather than the stop at the gate, and the timetable explains why: the first bus from Bilavaradahalli Cross is 5:51 AM and the last is 7:04 PM, which leaves no evening or night service at all, and between the 9:59 AM and the 12:14 PM there is a gap of more than two hours. Timings as shown on Google Maps in July 2026. BMTC schedules change — check the live departure board at mybmtc.karnataka.gov.in before you travel. The full fourteen-departure table is on the connectivity page; the other two stops have no published times, their held lists covering partial windows rather than a full day. Note the spellings too: BMTC writes the stops Bilavaradahalli and Bannerughatta, while this page follows the postal address in writing the village Bilwaradahalli and the road Bannerghatta — the same places under two spellings. On rail there is nothing. No railway station stands on the corridor and no metro station is in service on Bannerghatta Road itself: the Pink Line's southern terminus at Kalena Agrahara is 6.3 km north of here and not yet open. It was due to open on 15 August 2026; Deccan Herald reported in July 2026 that it would miss that deadline and is now expected in late August or early September, pending signalling validation and the statutory safety inspection. What a resident can actually use today is 12.5 km away, at Yelachenahalli or Silk Institute on the Green Line. The full road, metro, rail, bus and airport position is set out on the connectivity page.

Who Bilwaradahalli Suits — and Who It Does Not

A household that wants land and a low-rise home on a full arterial will find this suits, provided it is comfortable driving to hospitals and shops and values a green edge with a hard limit on it. It suits people working toward Electronic City, Bommasandra or Jigani in particular, because the NICE Road crossing at Gottigere opens that side without a run through the city. It does not suit anyone who needs a metro station now, anyone who wants a mall and a multi-speciality hospital within walking distance, or anyone unwilling to drive unaccompanied at night on a highway with stretches of open country along it. Both descriptions are true; which of them applies is a question about your household rather than about the address.

Nambiar's Beverly Green at Bilwaradahalli

A 76-acre master development with a 36-acre first phase of 298 plots, carrying G+2 villas: four bedrooms, a private lift serving all three levels, and an entire second floor given over to terrace — a multipurpose hall, celebration and wellness terraces, a yoga deck, a dance deck and a barbeque zone. First-phase plots are principally 35 × 55 and 40 × 63, at 1,925 sq.ft. and 2,520 sq.ft. respectively. Documented in the layout are six landscaped parks along the southern edge, 12 m and 12.19 m internal roads, 9.14 m secondary roads, an entrance plaza with a dedicated bus bay, and a retail block at the gate. The indicative rate is ₹13,499 per sq.ft. of saleable area, working out from about ₹5.48 Cr for a 35 × 55 and ₹6.82 Cr for a 40 × 63, with development and infrastructure charges and 5% GST included and registration and stamp duty excluded; east-facing and corner plots carry a preferential-location charge on top. These are indicative pre-launch figures and are subject to change. See the master plan, the villa layouts and the price page.

What to Verify Before You Buy Here

• K-RERA: registration has been applied for and approval is expected by 20 August 2026; it has not been granted and no number has been allotted — the project is pre-launch. Once granted, the K-RERA registration is the legally binding source for approvals, areas and timelines. Check at rera.karnataka.gov.in.
• The notified Eco-Sensitive Zone map around Bannerghatta National Park, read against the sanctioned plan for the scheme. We make no claim either way.
• Title, khata and survey numbers — village land on this corridor is held in survey numbers, so ask for the conversion order and the approved layout plan.
• Launch and possession: no dates have been announced and we will not estimate them.
• Distances: the figures we publish are the ten measured school distances and travel times on the schools page, the eight hospital distances and travel times on the hospitals page, six mall distances, six tech-park distances and travel times, three metro-station distances, 15 km to Electronic City at 30 min by car and 30 min by bike, 68 km to the airport at 2 h by car and 1 h 58 min by bike, and 3 km to the Bannerghatta Nature Camp. Travel times are typical and vary with traffic and time of day. Measure anything else that matters to you in Google Maps from 12.823744, 77.571837.

*The locality is described here by address, by direction, by verifiable public detail, and by measured distance wherever one exists. This site publishes travel times for ten schools, eight hospitals, six tech parks, Electronic City and the airport; each is typical and varies with traffic and time of day, and none has been derived from a distance. Related reading: location overview, the corridor, connectivity and Bannerghatta National Park.