Government's decision to split the BBMP

Hi Madhav, as you said there can be challenges and opportunities. What kind of challenges and opportunities can be faced?

POSITIVE:
1) Bifurcation can increase the management of urban planning (master plan preparation and taking care of amenities such as water supply, sanitation, etc.).
2) Splitting the BBMP would lead to creation of more employment in the city.
3) The decision of bifurcating BBMP by the civic agency can be seen as a practical solution as the government’s ideology to include the suburbs into the jurisdiction of BBMP had not worked well with the rapid urban sprawl in the city.
4) Bifurcation of the BBMP will help in betterment of administration which is very poor at local levels of each of the old City Municipal Council.

NEGATIVES:
1) Identity of Bangalore as one city will get dissolved.
2) There will be an increased need for municipal co-operation, which could lead to several challenges to the municipal autonomy.
3) The bifurcation would mean a lot of administrative changes at huge initial administrative costs.