on october 11 2012 the suvarna soudha lacks the hustle and bustle that marks the original vidhana soudha in bengaluru no private party has come forward to take up tourismrelated activities though the government had offered to reduce maintenance cost said an official who oversees maintenance so a location on the northern side in a depression and away from the svs was suggested this roughly translates to over rs 1lakh a day but even this plan is yet to get traction the edifice where the winter session of state legislature is currently on makes a political statement but is expensive to maintain and utterly inaccessible the pwd had even prepared a line estimate of rs 100 crore for constructing a 300400 room hotel spanning four floors belagavi officials say the pwd department spends rs 4 crore a year on maintenance alone however tourism department officials said construction of a hotel a bedandbreakfast facility or a theme park would be detrimental to the entire idea of utilizing the svs