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Written By idontspam - 28 December, 2014
Bangalore governance BBMP Wards bifurcation trifurcation committee
BBMP has apparently become "unmanagable". Its another matter they are also broke & also a den for the corrupt. Let me start with a statement which can be disproved. BBMP doesnt need to be split it instead needs to give up the "managing" part to the wards.
Why do we have wards?
Why do they mean nothing to us other than host BBMP engineers who have no accountability and accomplish nothing?
Why do the suport services like police, fire, electricity, water etc straddle boundaries that have no corelation to the ward?
Why are the ward committes dysfunctional?
What are the liabilities applicable to either BBMP or support services for deriliction of duties?
Yes its all about the ward. To me having a ward which has its own budget made by the ward committee and transparent P&L and has self contained support services is the way to go. Can we make the ward truly functional and do the managing then we dont have to worry about the charade of cutting things up like mysore pak and focus on outcomes instead? What are the challenges in making each of these happen?
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idontspam - 28 December, 2014 - 13:57
Lets also define what exactly is "managable" by the city council. How do you arrive at a quantitative estimate of what it takes for the city to handle Water, electricity, waste, infrastructure, Fire, Law & Order, Traffic, parks, open spaces, culture. What is the staffing & SLA's it can provide? What does it cost? What is the revenue per square feet a typical city provides? What is the current revenue per sft within the BBMP limites by ward & what is the potential then?
Decentralisation consultation paper
idontspam - 28 December, 2014 - 15:19
Here is a consultation paper on decentralization & municipalities
lets check the basics on what basis 198 wards got into BBMP
Sanjeev - 28 December, 2014 - 18:00
We need to go bakc and see on what basis 7 CMCs were mearged with BBMP and made 198 wards with also 100 villages added. Can any one post on this which may be 6 /7 yrs back and then we can see whats happening now with respect to this assumptions and also as Sathya suggested on which is proper size for BBMP to manage, we should look into this. Just spliting is no soultion for Bankrkrupt and Corrupt BBMP
idontspam - 29 December, 2014 - 08:40
This word is being used in the sidewalk case also. There atleast there is IRC standards that put numbers, what does this word mean in creating municipalities?
Here is a good report on the 198 wards written in 2009. It raises a pertinent question on who should be responsible for the delimitation. Should it be the state election commission? Will they be able to determine sustainablity issues in the resulting municipality beyond election related goals? Secondly delimiting wards is different from creating municipalities. In this regard, here is a report from before the current committee was formed. What is scientific?
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