Most of the objections filed over the draft of the ward delimitation in Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) pertains to naming of wards, said chief civic commissioner Tushar Giri Nath.
The Urban Development Department had notified the draft of the delimitation of wards - increased from 198 to 243 - on June 23 and gave 15 days’ time till July 8 to file objections. The department has received 3,833 objections, a majority of them over naming of wards.
The most number of objections have come from Yeshwantpur Assembly constituency - 1,967 objections, of which over 1,700 are regarding naming of wards. K.R. Puram Assembly constituency has sent the second highest number of objections - 479, a majority of which are regarding ward names.
