In the backdrop of the forthcoming elections to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the Civic Society Forum has presented ‘Manifesto for BBMP elections 2022’ and asked political party leaders to incorporate it in their election manifestos while seeking public mandate to govern the city.
The prominent features of the manifesto are bringing in more democratic and citizen participation in urban governance, making metropolitan planning committee a functional body, setting up of area sabhas for monitoring works and conducting social audits at the level polling booth area, among others.
They also said representatives to the sabhas should be selected by the votes, and suggested doing away with the political nominees in the ward committees.
