Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
The hundi system monitored by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has come under severe criticism of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. The CAG has reported that the Palike commissioner and the Chief Accounts Officer are responsible for its poor financial condition. CAG has observed that the BBMP’s improper financial management has resulted in useless [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) plan to include Electronics City under its jurisdiction, to raise more money, has angered the companies and their employees in the E-City. It is currently maintained by Electronic City Association, which is the best industrial estate of India and the pride of Bangalore. The association gets the cost of maintenance [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Koramangala say that the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) manipulated tenders to favour contractors and floated tenders to move trees after they were already moved. Between May 26 and 27, the BDA cut over 34 trees along Sarjapur Road for the signal-free corridor extending from Sirsi Circle to Agara Junction and passing through Koramangala, [...] Continue Reading »
The Karnataka High Court has asked the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to file an affidavit on the plan of action concerning the reconstruction of 1,640 flats for economically weaker sections (EWS) at Ejipura after a public interest litigation petition filed by allottees of flats. The petition stated that the original allottees of the flats [...] Continue Reading »
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is facing residents’ agitation against the garbage disposal in the Mavallipura locality and wants Palike to shut down the garbage dump yard in the area. The villagers staged protest and prevented garbage dumping into the landfill. Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy has agreed to visit Mavallipura on Thursday. Health risk is [...] Continue Reading »
At the BBMP Budget session on Wednesday, Mayor of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, D Venkatesh Murthy, announced that all 198 corporators should take up an ‘andolan’ to ban plastic in their respective Wards. He added that whoever is successful in this campaign will be rewarded with Rs 1 lakh. Though the Palike had taken [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has planned to install a biometric system in order to make flawless issue of permanent khatas (property ownership documents) and to eliminate corruption in property transactions, including doctoring of khatas. This move will safeguard the genuine property owners’ interests. The fingerprints will be matched in order to authenticate the ownership. [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, in April 2011, had considered to lease out its assets only through public auctioning in order to enhance the finance resources. But no action has been taken till now to enhance the lease amount or to call for public auction while leasing the BBMP’s properties. Also the BBMP’s recent budget [...] Continue Reading »
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has taken up some steps to provide better service for property tax payers. Corporation Bank is also included along with IDBI Bank for tax payment. Khata will be issued only after taking fingerprints as a biometric system will be introduced from this year, in order to curtail the duplicate khata [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Council approved the new parking policy which would allow BBMP to collect parking fee from citizens in its meeting conducted in March. Parking lots will be set up in all areas and parking will be charged as per the policy. The policy aims to encourage public transport and reduce land [...] Continue Reading »
