BBMP delimitation committee set up

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru

Responding on Karnataka High Court’s recent order to redo delimitation of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) wards “within 12 weeks”, the State government on Friday announced that they had set up a committee for the same.

The High Court bench on Wednesday had issued the relevant order in response to a writ petition. “To meet these conditions, we have reformed this Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike delimitation commission immediately,” an official notification by the Urban Development Department said.

The four member delimitation commission would have BBMP Chief Commissioner Tushar Girinath as its president. The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) commissioner G Kumar Naik and Bengaluru Urban district Deputy Commissioner Dayananda KA would be members.

Meanwhile, BBMP special commissioner of Revenue Deepak would serve as the secretary of the body. The erstwhile BJP government had made public the delimited BBMP wards, which went from numbering 198 to 243 in August last year. Congress, then in the Opposition in the state, had opposed it, terming the new wards “unscientific”.

The party had also not been happy with the BJP allegedly concentrating most of the 50 per cent wards reserved for women in traditional Congress and JD(S) strongholds. The new wards delimited wards would in principle address the grouses.