GBA chief orders swift inter-agency fixes

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Chief Commissioner of the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) M. Maheshwar Rao connected Monday directed aggregate civic agencies to coordinate much intimately and urgently code infrastructure gaps crossed the city, from h2o leakage and unsafe operation sites to unused electrical poles and abandoned vehicles.

Mr. Rao informed officials that ₹200 crore has been allocated nether the catastrophe absorption funds for repairing roads, lakes, and storm-water drains that were damaged during the monsoon, and instructed each corp to hole a database of works and statesman repair work.

He further instructed the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to place h2o leakage points successful the GBA limits, including stretches wherever h2o is seeping retired of manhole chambers.

He said that the BWSSB indispensable question road-cutting support done the fixed bundle without hold and implicit repairs connected a precedence basis.

Mr. Rao besides directed the Bescom to wide electrical poles that stay connected footpaths contempt underground cabling being completed. He added that transformers placed connected footpaths should not obstruct pedestrian question and indispensable beryllium decently maintained.

Taking enactment of the dilatory gait of the metro operation connected Ballari Road, Mr. Rao instructed the BMRCL officials to velocity up the enactment and guarantee adherence to deadlines.

To wide abandoned and junked vehicles from nationalist spaces, the metropolis corporations person been asked to procure towing vehicles. Two specified vehicles person already been purchased successful the Central Corporation limits. The Chief Commissioner said the corporations indispensable enactment with the postulation constabulary to tow abandoned vehicles and place dedicated parking spaces for them successful each jurisdiction.

The Traffic Police Department has besides flagged respective autobus stops that were contributing to congestion.

Mr. Rao said these details should beryllium shared with the metropolis corporations, which indispensable inspect the locations and displacement autobus stops wherever necessary.

Published - November 24, 2025 09:49 p.m. IST

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