The three-month respite given by the Karnataka High Court to redo delimitation of wards in the city has breathed a fresh lease of life on the government’s plan to bring in governance reforms, including splitting the civic body into multiple corporations.
Though the State government reconvened the BBMP Restructuring Committee led by B.S. Patil, which had recommended splitting the civic body into five corporations with 400 wards in 2015, it was feared that if the court orders immediate civic polls, the reform agenda may be derailed.
“As long as we hold civic polls within a stipulated time, the courts are not against reforms to the system. So, time is the essence now to implement our governance reforms. We feel a single civic body is unmanageable and the civic body needs to be split into multiple corporations for better administration. We will hit the ground running now,” said a senior city Congress MLA.
