Meeting BBMP - updated.

Based on some discussions we have been having here on the subject of planned development, its time to organize a Praja-style meeting with BBMP.

We need an anchor volunteer to organize this meeting, and collect questions here before the meeting. We will send an email from praja id to initiate the contact with Mr Subramanya's office. After that, it would be anchor's ball.

Interested? Leave a private message to admin. We can use this post for some question gathering as well.

BBMP is a key agency responsible for planned development of the city, the central areas of Bangalore Metropolitan region. They own the planning norms and byelaws. Some of us want to understand their planning process, and the ways in which they enforce their byelaws and developmental norms.

Something that members here seem to be interested in are:

• BBMP's enforcement record
• BBMP's budget making process, staff strength
• How they work with other civic bodies like Traffic Police, BMTC - basically, their side of things.
• Citizen complaint mechanism - whats in place, and whats not
• How do they rate themselves on pro-active disclosure norm of RTI.

Focus will be understanding their workings, and things relevant citizen participation. We will not go into specifics of hot issues like CVS/SAS. First meeting will not give us enough time for all that.

Alright then. Lets see the interest levels here first. Watch for updates.