ABIDe ... has stressed on creation of a structure that would become the local planning authority for the city and the metropolitan region. Besides this ABIDe’s focus of citizen centric governance has been further enhanced by the proposal of a comprehensive development and co-ordinated execution of developmental projects. See: ABIDe presents Governance Bill
PS: Communication from Rajeev C's office along with the draft. Should be available on ABIde website as well.
Sub. : Draft Governance Legislation for Bengaluru City
On behalf of Mr. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP and Convener – ABIDe Task Force, I am enclosing herewith the proposed draft legislation for Bengaluru City, tentatively titled Bengaluru Region Governance Act, 2009, which is undergoing public consultation currently. This is intended to supersede the current KMC Act 1976.
The principles used for drafting the act are citizen centricness, enhanced responsiveness, accountability, transparency and institutionalized citizen and neighborhood involvement in the city’s development.
We would be glad to receive your views / comments on the same, if any.
We also request you to widely circulate this document amongst your friends and colleagues in order to ensure greater visibility / awareness and wider feedback.
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Have the full draft document
Will attach to this post.
Incidentally, tired of waiting to hear more on Kasturirangan lines from ABIDe, I was working on an angry sounding "BDA must go" type post.
Need to read this in detail, and compare with Kasturirangan Co report.
so few reads?
These are heavy documents to read, alva!? But one act like this will shape everything else - traffic, water, sanitation, pollution whatever - I will say perhaps everything except power, and perhaps law and order. Not many people take the time to do the reading to help influence these draft legislations.
It might be worth the time to discuss this proposal and see it alongside Kasturi Rangan report.
I read through the document
I read through the document and I'll put down some lay person suggestions/opinions I have. I also have one question (point 4 below) which I'd like some one, with better knowledge of such governance functioning, to provide an answer to.
The Section 33 has been
Section 14 - Wards Committee
Contrary to the KMC Act 1976, where the Ward Committee members are supposed to be people having knowledge and experience in municipal administration, the draft Act does not mention what kind of people need to be nominated by the corporation. This leaves the decision open to the councillor and could be misused to fill up the Ward committee with favorable to him/her.
Why should the Ward committee have nominated members at all when the other members - elected conveners of NAC - are part of it? If they need nominated members, the Act needs to mention what kind of people with what specific experience could be nominated. Also, in my opinion, the councillor in consultation with other members of Ward committee (NAC conveners) should recommend the nominated members to the corporation.
Good question
What exactly are the powers of the Mayor?
Is it defined in some other document of BBMP? Its worth posing this question to ABIDe. You can get their id at Bengaluruvedike site
My interpretation of this is that the responsibilities of Corporation as a whole is defined in Chapter 5 sections 57-59 of the KMC act. The Mayor as the leader of the corporation is responsible for discharging the responsibilities of the corporation by executing the functions assigned to his role as defined in sec 60 of KMC (sec 33 in the new one). But I would think this association at least needs to be made clear. Or maybe it is somewhere and I havent read it properly.