As a pilot for the BBMP bill, Parliamentary and Legislative Affairs Minister JC Madhuswamy said that the bill not only aims to increase wards from 198 to 243, but also includes all local bodies located in the margins of the 816 square kilometer boundary of the BBMP.
The BBMP bill aims to include at least one kilometer area beyond the existing BBMP boundaries to incorporate pockets of IT outside the existing boundaries, such as parts of Electronics City and some IT parks outside of Mahadevapura. . This is expected to increase the income of the civic body.
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“We have not set any limits, although the report presented on Wednesday kept one km as the limit, although in the law there is no limit, but we are setting the local body as a unit that will merge with the BBMP limits,” Madhuswamy said.
Madhuswamy revealed that the terms of mayor and deputy mayor have been increased from one year to two and a half years.
The main reason for increasing the number of districts is to simplify administration, and each Assembly constituency should have only three or four districts instead of six to eight districts as at present, he added.
The minister said that the number of zones will be increased from eight to 15.
The bill also targets the inclusion of gram panchayats and taluk panchayats in the new larger BBMP.
When this BBMP bill was introduced in March, it was referred to a joint committee after various city MLAs, including those from the BJP, opposed it. The committee decided to refer it to the 20-member joint select committee in August headed by BJP MLA S. Raghu.
The panel that has recommended 243 rooms presented its report at the Assembly on Wednesday.
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