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Written By admin123 - 30 June, 2009
Bangalore BBMP Elections Need Help
Dear members, let us use this post to collect our expectations from parties in the coming BBMP elections. Please post short lists (your top 5) via comments. After a few comments, we will collect and merge the list, and create a poll/survey on the site to determine the most popular issues for BBMP elections.
Needless to say, issues have got to be local. And please post just your top 5, short and sweet, avoid essays on why and how (save those for separate post). That way, it will be easier for a moderator to merge the lists and create the 15-20 issues that we will put up in the survey.
Thanks for your help.
COMMENTS
1. Mandatory disabled friendly pedestrian & cycling facilities
2. Quality road laying with mechanised cut and relay. Mandatory IRC standards
3. Improved drainage with zero stagnation. Block sewage entering lakes.
4. Consolidate and go vertical to increase density and make space for mandatory urban forests in each ward
5. Save Hebbal and Nagwara by leaving it alone as a green belt.
Let me try one.
- May be one more revision of byelaws, but after that, please start with enforcements
- Clear lake-bed encorachments, and more lung spaces in the city
- Pedestrian amenities, consistent, whether in City or new CMC areas
- Support dedicated-bus lane plans on select corridors
- Incorporate recycling programs in waste management system, like Hyderabad/ITC's WOW (Wealth out of Waste)
[Frankly, I don't know what BBMP can and can't do, so it took time to write my top 5]
Here are my top five recommendations
Rithesh - 30 June, 2009 - 18:34
1. Implementation of the 74th amendment in totality - decentralization and involvement of RAs and civic groups in ward level committees and decision making structure.
2. Introduction of comprehensive vaccination program for all urban poor families and better healthcare facilities in govt hospital in the city.
3. Environment - stop all tree cutting for road widening purposes and re-establish Bangalore's lost identity - trees (I hate these european styled parks with only lawns and no trees). Clearing all lake bed encroachments (please save Hebbal Nagavara lake system - it is being encroached upon).
4. Transportation - BMLTA to be established with real powers. Pedestrian friendly infrastructure, emphasis on public transport and cycling lanes.
5. Revamp solid waste management system and garbage collection system.
a. Level and clean pavements - for starters at least along all the arterial roads.
b. Complete overhaul of garbage collection. It is simply disgusting to see garbage just thrown along the roads
c. Lake rejuvenation
d. Addition of green spaces
e. Eliminate corruption within the department - many problems will get solved (big one!!!)
Srivathsa
murali772 - 8 July, 2009 - 14:11
My current list - will add more as we go along:
1) Adopt the Kasturirangan Committee report, and therewith the Metropolitan Planning Committee concept for city governance.
2) In addition, adopt the 'upper house' concept suggested by Mr Manivannan, with 'praja.in' as the medium for citizen engagement - check this
3) Convert all parastatals such as BWSSB, BESCOM, BMTC, etc into expert 'cells' (or, call it by some other more appropriate name) under BBMP, with the operational functions outsourced to reputed private contractors, like JUSCO for water supply, TATA's/ Reliance for power supply, TVS for bus services.
4) Incentivise usage of public transport services, and disincentivise usage of individualised forms of transport. Phase out auto's with NANO's from within the city limits over a 2-year period.
5) Pedestrianise business districts like M G road/ Brigade road/ Commercial St areas; Jayanagar 4th block; Koramangala 7th/8th blocks, etc, with provision for passage of only public transport vehicles (including taxies) between 8 AM and 8 PM.
6) Design a total water management system, including rain-water and ground water, whereby dependence on external sources like Arkavathy, Cauvery etc reduces to the bare minimum.
7) Build de-centralised Sewage Treatment Plants (de-wats), one for every 5000 persons, across the city.
8) Build more Nirmala type of tiolets across the city, and tie up with local eateries for their operation (24 hr) and maintenance, by offering them suitable property tax concessions.
9) Re-establish Bangalore as a green city, particularly by nurturing the right species of avenue trees.
10) Establish a net-based complaint redressal mechanism - PRAJA can help here.
Muralidhar Rao
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