Proposal to split BBMP into five corporations sent to Governor for approval
Facing multiple legal challenges to the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024 in the High Court of Karnataka, the State government is being cautious moving ahead, sources said.
As the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) area was notified with the Governor's approval, it was felt that it was better to notify the draft of the proposed five corporations also after his approval, sources added.
The BBMP will notify the boundaries of the proposed five corporations shortly after the Governor approves it and will call for public objections, sources said.
The Brand Bengaluru Committee had recently given a report proposing that the city's civic limits be split into five corporations — Central, North, East, West and South. The proposed boundaries have been drawn up with balance in revenue generation and taking care to cut the least number of Assembly constituencies into multiple corporations as the guiding principle.
Sources said the five corporations have been drawn up in such a manner that the maximum difference between the estimated revenue between these corporations is not more than ₹100 Crore. A maximum of five Assembly constituencies are cut up into different corporations. However, this has meant that the corporations have a large variance in their size and population.
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