Civic activists and experts expressed a strong opposition to the newly forced Bengalur Administration Act (GBG) 2024 and called it a direct threat to the constitutional mandate for a decentralized city local administration. They argued that GBGA, which came into force on 15 May this year, would centralize power under the state government and condemns the principles of 74.
On Saturday, a former Civic seminar (Civic Voluntary Initiative for the City) on Saturday, a former IAS officer and a decentralization advocate TR Raghunandan, condemned the act for inclusion in the hands of the main minister, instead of allowing elected city local authorities to work independently. “This act flies in the face of Nagarapalika, who explicitly advocates local government,” he said.
Kathyayini Chamaraj, a civic activist, stressed that Bruhhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has already been deprived of considerable powers and that the act of GBG further reduces local officials, and that Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) stressed that Bruhat Bengalur Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).
Satyajit Aricharam, a former main technical advisor to Dult, warned that the decisions of opaque infrastructure-like is an underground tunnel only for cars-raises the risk of elite planning in the new regime. “Future generations will bear the financial burden of projects that serve the privileged little,” he said.
While Mr. Raghunandan defended the Bengaluru division for smaller administrative units to help decentralization, Mrs. Chamaraj warned that this could lead to financial inequality between zones. “Prospering areas such as Mahadevapura would retain their income and others remained insufficiently funded,” she warned.
Civic plans to legally call on the law on the renewal of the democratic and responsible management of the city.
Published – May 17, 2025 21:28
