2. Why PlanBengaluru?
A regional vision for a large, vibrant area
8000 square kilometer BMR, rapid growth, globally linked economy,
changing profile of neighbourhoods, lifestyles, and jobs.
Blue Print for Integrated development, Investment and
Coordinated administration
Bringing together related roles that are now distributed across different
departments. Also ensuring that ideas and work are complementary.
Citizen-centric governance and development
Ensuring that the people have a strong voice in shaping the future of their
Neighbourhoods, Wards and the city, according to their aspirations.

3. A broad range of issues that impact
on City, Ward, Neighbourhood
- Governance - Health
- Traffic and Transport - Education
- Water - Heritage
- Sanitation - Power
- Waste Management - City Facilities
- Environment - Housing
- Lakes - Security
- Tourism - Urban Poor

4. Government – by and for the people
• Creating and institutionalising more fora for citizens’ views
• Encouraging debate and discussion
• Decentralising decisions and choices
• Strengthening executive leadership and democracy

5. What does this mean for you?
Aligning politics around issues
Your corporator and ward committee members should be allied to the same
goals. This can only be achieved if you elect both of them! If you elect one
and the rest are nominated with opposing views, no progress can be made.
Ward Committee
Your ward councillor
Your elected neighbourhood representatives
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6. What does this mean for you?
Legally binding, local control
Neighbourhood and ward committees will be able to set priorities for
development in their area, and oversee the work of those who carry out
development projects in their wards.
Who built this road? At what cost?

7. What does this mean for you?
Retaining the local character and flavour
Every community has its own history, and reasons why people were
attracted to living there. By local empowerment, you will have the right
to shape development in a way that reinforces the aspects that attracted
you, and stop those aspects that you don’t like.
What route should this bus run?

8. Near- to medium term solutions
Deliver sustainably high quality Public Services
 Poor data
 Silos in government
 Lack of funds
 Slow to adopt new technologies
 Manpower issues (skills, quantity, salaries)
 Some services inaccessible to citizens
Identify quickly implementable solutions
• Tighter coordination between departments (Roads and Traffic)
• Collect data regularly (Health, Traffic, Water)
• Bring most services to ward level (BBMP 1)
• Put emerging technologies to use in government

9. Annual review and Assessment of progress
 Using PlanBengaluru 2020 as a framework
 An Annual State of the City / Ward report card / Conference
 Setting specific targets for unachieved goals

10. PlanBengaluru – The way forward
Collaborate to develop new versions regularly
- Research and development in formal institutions
- Civic platforms for local knowledge and decisions
- Creative citizen-led new ideas and experiments
- Information and deliberation platforms (govt. as well as NGO)
The goal for PlanBengaluru
- Be an evolving, permanent repository of ideas and aspirations
- Help link ideas to actions and outcomes
- Contribute to making Bangalore a truly world-class city