CM’s meeting on Bengaluru development surprisingly leaves out city MLAs
BENGALURU:
Within a fortnight of taking over as the new Karnataka Chief Minister, Basavaraj S Bommai held a maiden meeting on Tuesday with BBMP officials in his capacity as Bengaluru in-charge Minister. Bommai’s main thrust was that BBMP officials should prepare action plans and development plans according to the available resources.
The CM chaired a meeting at his home office ‘Krishna’ in which Bengaluru MLAs were not invited. However, Ministers from Bengaluru participated in the meeting.
‘Nix corruption’
Bommai called for more aggressive implementation of development plans for Benaluru and said works should be completed in a timely manner. He laid stress on officials not allowing any scope for corruption.
“Officials and Ministers (from the city) will have to work as a team for the development of Bengaluru. Developmental works need to be executed after considering the views of the local legislators,” the CM said.
Highlights of the meeting:
• Action is being taken to bring BBMP under the purview of the Monetary Liability Act with the objective of formulating a realistic development plan for the city.
• BBMP has been advised to plan works within its annual income limit.
• BWSSB has been directed to undertake repairs of 8,000 borewells operating in 110 villages in BBMP’s jurisdiction so as to provide proper water supply.
• 3 lakh street lights should be converted to LEDs by the end of the year.
• Separate meeting on rainwater harvesting will be convened.
• Repairs of roads damaged during the last rains should be taken up.
• The government will consider the creation of a separate authority for development and maintenance of the 860-km arterial and sub-arterial road network.
• The Smart City project is nearing completion.
• Expediting of the Chief Minister’s Nagorathana project was stressed.
• It was suggested that a proposal for a third phase of city planning be submitted by October.
• The Chief Minister instructed officials to complete work on 8 flyovers in the city.
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— Basavaraj S Bommai (@BSBommai) August 10, 2021
Ministers CN Ashwath Narayan, V Somanna, R Ashoka, Araga Gyanendra, ST Somashekhar, BA Basavaraja, Muniratna and K Gopalaiah, BDA Chairman SR Vishwanath, Chief Secretary P Ravikumar, Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner Vandita Sharma, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister N Manjunatha Prasad, BBMP Chief Commissioner Gaurav Gupta, ACS-UDD and BBMP Administrator Rakesh Singh and other senior officials were present.
