ABIDe Bengaluru

Governance

Bengaluru has grown rapidly in the last decade, both in population and now (with the expansion of the municipality) in size too. This expansion demands a new framework for public administration, which is flexible, coherent across agencies, and accountable to the public. A popularly elected mayor, dramatic restructuring of city agencies, decentralisation of governance - you'll find all this in the ABIDe report. Now it's your turn to tell us what you think of these, and more.

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Posted By Bhuvana Kumar Samu at Wed 11 Feb '2009, 08:59:22

It will be very helpful to know the peoples appreciation or the grievences regarding the comforts & discomforts faced in day to day life. So, one of the option to reach people is through the media, a television media or a channel to reach people and interact with them, about the plans in there areas. 'Abide' television will help in directly communicating with the people.

Posted By Manjunatha at Fri 05 Jun '2009, 23:33:37

I always feel that Pareto analysis holds good in most of the cases. I.e 20% of inputs influences 80% of output. I feel in the governance, critical areas to adress are revenue/PWD/water supply/Town planning/Power/Transport/Police(Law &order).These departments takes major portion in terms of budget allocation and revenue generation. 1) Develop Centralised database of land records. From my personal experience I felt that land records available in Tahasidar office different from what's avaiable in KIADB. Revenue dept is responsible for maintaining centralised land records data and other departments like BDA, KIADB,BMRDA can access that data on need basis. 2)I feel its always good to do business with well established reputated consultancy/company in construction and maintainace of civil work(i e construction and maintainace of flyovers, bridges and road). This results in high productivity, less cost, accountability and faster development. Also this results in curbing corruption at each small contractor level, who again influences in electing people representatives. When there is no easy money earned, then there is no easy spend for elections etc.. 3) When it comes to town planning, its always proven that vertical growth of city is prefered. If Bangalore is forced to grow vertically, I think radius of city wouldn't have crossed 20-25 kms. Thus it's easy to provide infrastructure like transport/water/electricity/waste management etc at lesser price. Definitely there is a big difference in developing and maintaining 60 kms of radius v/S 30 kms of radius. 4) Law and order: I think city should be allowed to function round the clock. I think more police personnel, usage of CCTV on roads would help to maintain law and order.