Nearly a decade ago, while I was working on the Revised Master Plan for Bengaluru (RMP 2031), a senior planner remarked: “Only the Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) has the legal right to plan for Bengaluru.” Today, that assertion is unravelling in a tussle between the newly formed Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) and the BDA over who should plan for the city’s future. What is more troubling is that Bengaluru’s current master plan, the RMP 2015, is based on surveys from 2003, nearly two decades out of date. The Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act (KTCPA) of 1961 requires revision every…
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A decade without a Master Plan: Who should be planning Bengaluru’s future?
Bengaluru’s future must focus on breaking free from outdated frameworks and embracing citizen-led, climate-resilient planning.
Women should work from ground and get into high position in politics. Men are doing more ground work .but atlast based birth gender some one getting opportunities means leader won’t be created self propaganda people only created.
No candidate had promised to eradicate mosquitoes from their wards, oh what a surprise
Can you please furnish the details of votes polled in the 200 wards of Greater Chennai Corporation in the localbody elections held recently, by partywise