Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru Development Minister D K Shivakumar said Tuesday that the new Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) would have five city corporations under it. This comes ahead of a Cabinet meeting on Thursday where the subject is likely to be discussed, before the new corporations are notified by the government.
“We have formed the GBA. After this, we will definitely form five corporations,” he said in Bengaluru, speaking at a convention of implementation committees for the Congress government’s various guarantee schemes.
Shivakumar said elections would be held soon for the new bodies. There has been some opposition to dividing the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) into smaller bodies, but the split is essential to improve administration in the city, he added.
This announcement comes a week after a final report on earmarking the GBA area and splitting it into smaller corporations was submitted to the government.
Last week, Shivakumar said the GBA would have the same territorial jurisdiction as the BBMP, which governs an area of around 700 sq km in Bengaluru Urban district. The government has decided to include new areas under GBA in the future.
The report submitted to the government discussed the pros and cons of splitting BBMP into three, four or five corporations.
The GBA Act passed in the budget session of legislature in March this year provided for the formation of up to seven smaller corporations to improve governance in Bengaluru city.
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Congress MLA Rizwan Arshad, who headed a joint legislature committee on the GBA Act, had said that each of the smaller corporations was likely to have 80 to 100 corporators.