Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has been permitted to borrow Rs 1,000 crore loan from banks and financial institutions as it is facing a financial crunch by Karnataka government. The Corporation recently presented a budget of Rs 9500 crore and has been pleading the state government for financial assistance. The cabinet has approved the [...] Continue Reading »
Police are furious with the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) plans to construct a Palike Bazaar and an underground parking lot at Freedom Park. Police have been allowing protests, demonstrations and large gatherings at Freedom Park as they fear the proposed projects at Freedom Park will result in an acute space crunch. A police officer [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) budget session was committed to Ramky Environ, which manages the Mavallipura dumping yard. Opposition leader MK Gunashekar questioned the mayor that why the ruling party was protecting Ramky’ engineers who were responsible for water and air pollution in the area and surrounding villages. Gunashekar accused Ramky of polluting the [...] Continue Reading »
The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday sent a notice to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in a petition alleging irrational lease of public properties. Five Year Law Course Students’ Association, the petitioner, had approached the Court alleging that the Palike has leased out its property for a pittance. The petitioner had claimed that [...] Continue Reading »
The opposition leader MK Gunashekar has said that the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) budget for 2012-13 is highly unrealistic and many infrastructure projects planned for this year will not be executed in the BBMP council on Monday. Ruled by BJP, the BBMP has failed to maintain transparency in preparing the budget and the budget [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Thursday presented an inflated budget for 2012-13 fiscal with an outlay of Rs. 9,498.90 crore which is Rs. 100 crore more than the 2011-12 budget. Chairperson of the Standing Committee for Taxation and Finance K.A. Muneendra Kumar said the total anticipated revenue was Rs. 9,288.95 crore, while the [...] Continue Reading »
With the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) inviting tenders for an already built Yoga Centre in Rajamahal Guttahalli ward, the BBMP engineers and the contractor who constructed the structure planned to dismantle the Yoga Centre. The BBMP had invited a tender for the Rs 12-lakh project to build the Yoga Centre, which has already come [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) budget for 2012-13 will be presented only after Hindu Lunar month of ‘Ashada’ considered ‘inauspicious’. The BJP, which is the Ruling Party in the BBMP Council, has promised a realistic budget. Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy and chairperson of the Standing Committee for Taxation and Finance K.A. Muneendra Kumar had [...] Continue Reading »
The signal-free corridor project from Sirsi Circle-Agara Junction is likely to consume a large part of Lalbagh Botanical Gardens. According to a report prepared by Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), as much as 13,800 square metre of Lalbagh land may be required to complete the project. The report also suggests that the petty shops along [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is expected to repair major roads in Bangalore city measuring a total of 73 km at a total cost of 200 crore. This project has come as a joint venture between BBMP and the state government Tender SURE (Specification for Urban Road Execution). The cost will be shared equally between [...] Continue Reading »
