Key Points
A month after Congress came to power in Karnataka, the State government on June 12 reconvened the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Restructuring Committee, which the previous Congress regime (between 2013 and 2018) had formed..
The committees recommendation to split BBMP into multiple corporations dates back to 2015..
Due to the unprecedented demographic and spatial growth of Bengaluru over the last two decades, the Committee will be covering not only the BBMP, but all related civic and infrastructure departments like the Urban Development Department, the Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA), the Bangalore water supply and sewerage board (BWSSB), the Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority (BMRDA), the Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT), the Bengaluru Metropolitan Land Transport Authority (BMLTA), the city police, the Fire and Emergency Services, the Slum Board, etc., and corporations like the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC), Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (Bescom), Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), and Suburban Rail...
The three-tier governance framework suggested would focus on providing for the Metropolitan Planning Committee (MPC) at the regional level with the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) as a Local Planning Authority (LPA) and strengthening the ward committees at the lowest level.The ward committee will give voice and a place for citizens to address local urban issues in their neighborhood..
The Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), which will be the pan-city body to integrate the goverance of multiple corporations and several parastatals, should be headed by the chief minister and in the next ten years should transition to be headed by a directly elected mayor for the city, the BBMP Restructuring Committee recommended..
