bbmp mayor

To make a difference, all the citizen services have to come under one authority. The control the state government, ministers and MLAs wield over the city reduces the BBMP bodies to a minor tick box in our complex democracy.

Mayor of the Silicon Valley of India has a limitless opportunity to revolutionise the way development policies are designed, by using an approach that looks at the facts instead of opinions.

BBMP will collect extra property tax due to improved IT-assisted property mapping, says Mayor Padmavathi, in an interview, explaining how BBMP is trying to implement many news schemes and programmes.

Several citizens of Bengaluru protested against BBMP for failing to provide safe roads. They threatened to boycott paying taxes to BBMP unless their demands were met.

Though BJP won majority in BBMP council, Congress-JDS coalition has won the Mayor’s election, because all people’s representatives from Bengaluru area are allowed to vote in mayoral elections.