Series: If I were Bengaluru Mayor – contest

Imagine renting out wings for people to cross outer ring road, government-operated helipads for food delivery boys to help them avoid footpaths, spoiling Bengaluru weather so that people can migrate to Chennai! Some ideas for better Bengaluru.

Take heart Bengaluru! With citizens’ involvement and ideas, we will see a Mayor doing the right things, sooner than later.

Strategy should be to elevate the stature of the Mayor’s office, take up small but significant set of things that lead to perceptible improvements, and to get citizens involved in local decision making.

Ward Committees for citizen participation in governance, a working waste management policy and measures to check pollution in the city — these three can set right most of the problems in the city.

Data-based decisions will help BBMP thwart infrastructure problems forever. That’s what Bengaluru needs to do: letting data and metrics shape the future of the city.

A simple dashboard to monitor BBMP works, done with existing infrastructure, could be a game-changer in transparency in the administration of Bengaluru.

From the idyllic city that Bengaluru once was, the transformation has been significant. One cannot bring back old Bengaluru. But what can be done to improve the city?

A willing and strong-willed Mayor who loves the city can achieve a lot in the year-long tenure. Here are five such things!

Fact file of all the corporators in terms of their responsibilities toward their community will be published in the newspapers for public to see. Transparency, competitiveness, efficiency and quality will be maintained.

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.

One solution is to relocate the IT establishments. This can be done by developing the tier-two cities which possess the potential of infrastructure development.

If I were the Mayor, I assure, I would not be a “Little more than a figurehead”, but strive hard for the betterment of my place and people.