One year on, how has the Greater Bengaluru Authority fared?
One year after the restructuring of Bengaluru's urban governance into the Greater Bengaluru Authority, residents report that promised improvements in civic services have not materialized. Despite an increase in the number of wards, administrative vacancies and a lack of infrastructure expansion continue to hinder service delivery.
Why it matters
The failure of this administrative reform highlights the challenges of decentralizing governance in rapidly growing urban centers.
In this six-part series, The Hindu’s reporters evaluate the restructuring of urban governance in the city with the Greater Bengaluru Authority and five corporations, a year after the reform.
The Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), which completed a year after replacing the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) with five city corporations, increased the number of wards from 198 to 369. But while 171 new wards were added to the civic map, there has been no corresponding expansion of facilities such as primary health centres (PHCs), Indira Canteens or even ward offices, the local touchpoints through which the five-corporation system was expected to bring civic services closer to residents.
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