What do the various party manifestos promise us? A bird’s eye view

INC

• Pitching Bengaluru as the Second capital city of India.
• A special package of 100,000 crore for infra
• Compile a new survey map of the city to subsume all the underlying historical village maps

BJP

• Pass a new law named the “Nava Bengaluru Act” to cater to the unique needs of Bengaluru.
• Institute Bengaluru Transit Challenge Fund with a Rs 200 Crore initial corpus to incentivise citizen driven transit.
• Develop Devanahalli town as an IT city by taking advantage of its proximity to the Bengaluru Airport.
• Transform all metro pillars and flyover into standing gardens.
• 5000km of strategically designed footpaths for optimum space utilisation and pedestrian friendly infrastructure; disabled-friendly footpaths

JDS

• Replacing KTCP Act by Karnataka Urban and Regional Planning Act in cities and towns of Karnataka.

AAP

• Increase open spaces to 40% in all urban areas.
• Construct one public toilet per 500 homes

INC

• Better management of municipal corporation with a Greater Bengaluru Authority.
• Establish an Ombudsman to ensure that citizens get better services.
• Create a city finance commission
• In 10 years time, a directly elected empowered mayor system
• A continuous updating of all government websites
• Every government rule, policy and scheme will be sent via SMS to all the ci zens of the state
• Corporator will not have veto power over citizen decisions

BJP

• Setup a city economic development agency.
• Build and maintain a city spatial data centre.

JD(S)

• Restructuring of parastatal organisations including the BWSSB, BDA and BMRDA.

AAP

• Elections of all local bodies to be held on time
• No supersession of local bodies by the state government

INC

• Expediting the Cauvery V Phase Proposal to augment drinking water supply to Bengaluru City, Bengaluru Rural and Ramanagaram
• Promoting and implementing the Anna Hazare Model for water sustainability and rejuvenation of water
• Introducing new projects to provide drinking water by implementing the Sharavathi & Mekedhatu – Yethinahole model
• Decentralised wastewater treatment.
• Recharge open wells

BJP

• Rs 2,500 Crore Nadaprabhu Kempegowda fund sanctioned for cleaning, revival of lakes and rivers, ridding the city of water mafia.
• Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Lake Conservation and Rejuvenation Fund: BLCDA will be a regulatory body for protection of lakes, rajakaluves and storm water drains.Rs. 2500 crores will be allocated to the revival of the ecosystem.

JD(S)

• Solid waste management will be done through legislative, technical and operational measures.

AAP

• BWSSB and KUWS&DB to accept responsibility for every building 20,000 kms per family of lifeline water free each month
• Installing 10,000 new open wells in Bengaluru.

INC

• Decentralised solid waste management in every ZP area.
• Constructing local waste handling and processing units within zones and assembly constituencies.
• Penalising burning of garbage.
• Construct 20 MW Decentralised Biomass Gasification Power Project in every district.

BJP

• Recycling of 100% of sewage generated in the city.

JD(S)

• Solid waste management will be done through legislative, technical and operational measures.

INC

• Expand coverage of TenderSURE roads.
• Complete white topping of major roads throughout Bengaluru City.
• Build more flyovers and execute road widening exercises.
• Plan underground lanes to decongest traffic similar to the Delhi underground lines.
• Consider opening suburban railway links to destinations up to 100 kms from the city centre.
• Introduce innovative solutions to utilise space available below metro line and elevated roads for parking vehicles.
• 25% of the buses will be air conditioned and 30% of passengers use public transportation.
• 2000 kms of walkable footpaths

BJP

• Pedestrians will cross at grade within the city centre and skywalks will be restricted to major arterial roads on the outskirts.
• Incentivise use of public transport by offering reasonable fares.
• Setup and fund Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (UMTA) to introduce more mobility initiatives.
• Expand BMTC fleet and reduction of fares by 50% for long journeys to benefit those in the unorganised sector
• Bruhat Bengaluru Suburban Rail: implementation of Rs.17,000 BBSR project
• Green Bengaluru 1:1 – tree census, identification of planting sites and planting saplings to bring the tree-to-person ratio to atleast 1 in Bengaluru

JDS

• City Mobility Plans will be prepared for all district headquarters and corporation areas of the state

AAP

• Local, community-managed parking permits in neighbourhoods
• Providing 120 buses per lakh of population in all urban areas.
• Cycle lanes around all major lakes (also to stop encroachment)
• Rapid construction to build flyovers / underpasses in 6 weeks

Congress

• Execute best water-management practices such as bio-retentions, dry and wet ponds, and porous pavement Increasing open public spaces by 2% every year.
• Make the WHO standards for air and water quality as our goal.
• Installation of solar panels on the rooftops of all government buildings.

BJP

• Green Bengaluru 1:1 – tree census, identification of planting sites and planting saplings to bring the tree-to-person ratio to atleast 1 in Bengaluru

• Native species only in all tree planting
• At least one air quality monitor in every ward