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Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar connected Wednesday (October 8, 2025) said helium has moved eden and world to hole Bengaluru’s garbage problems, but the engagement of mafias has stalled the progress.
He was speaking during a treatment connected “GBA: Transformative Vision for Bengaluru with GBA” organised by BPAC and Mount Carmel College.
Speaking during a league astir the government’s “transformative vision” for Bengaluru done the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), helium said the city’s challenges are deep-rooted and necessitate coordination among aggregate agencies.
Across parties
“Even the BJP was not successful, and truthful far, we (Congress) excessively are not, due to the fact that garbage mafias are not allowing america to work. I americium moving eden and earth, but the mafia are involved,” helium said.
Mr. Shivakumar said that Bengaluru appears to marque “more noise” erstwhile it comes to potholes and atrocious roads than different cities due to the fact that of its unfastened media environment. “Bengaluru gets headlines due to the fact that here, we are free, the media and societal media enactment without restrictions. But successful different states similar Tamil Nadu oregon Andhra Pradesh, the media cannot relation this freely,” helium said.
“Here, immoderate parents marque their children outcry to item atrocious roads and it gets posted and becomes a headline. We, arsenic politicians, invited specified criticism; that’s however we tin rectify our mistakes. I recognize people’s frustrations, adjacent my daughters scold maine for getting stuck successful traffic. But we are proactively doing our work, and radical volition retrieve these efforts 10 years from now,” the DCM said.
Why GBA now?
Speaking connected the formation of GBA, helium said, “The thought was to bring amended coordination and accountability among departments. Every national should cognize what they should lend and what the authorities volition do. We are policymakers, but we ne'er instrumentality decisions independently, we consult each stakeholders.”
Urbanisation is simply a large situation for immoderate country, Mr. Shivakumar said, adding that radical travel to Bengaluru for education, employment, and amended surviving standards. “I americium from a colony adjacent Bengaluru South. My parents brought maine present for prime education, and I ne'er went back. That’s the communicative of everyone here,” helium said. He further noted that Bengaluru’s beardown acquisition basal has made it a endowment hub that tin situation immoderate city. During S.M. Krishna’s tenure arsenic Chief Minister, the colonisation was 70 lakhs, present it’s 1.4 crore, helium said.
Referring to a caller contented involving logistics startup BlackBuck, helium said, “Some chap threatened america that helium volition spell back. But earlier that, helium came present due to the fact that helium was earning. People travel and bash concern present due to the fact that this is simply a endowment hub.” However, the city’s maturation has brought analyzable issues. Mobility, coagulated discarded management, and drinking h2o are the biggest problems, helium said, pointing retired that Bengaluru present has 1.27 crore registered vehicles and that its colonisation could interaction 2 crore soon.
He further added that 50% of seats successful the caller civic wards would beryllium reserved for women. “From panchayat to Parliament, we request much women leaders. They are the decision-makers successful families, they should beryllium portion of governance too,” helium said.
Tunnel Road
Regarding criticism of projects similar the passageway road, the DCM said, “You cannot fulfill everyone. Everyone wants to ain a car, and past they kick astir traffic. Time is money, I don’t privation radical to beryllium stuck successful postulation anymore.”
“Whatever we do, determination are immoderate sadists. Now radical are saying with passageway road, I volition beryllium affecting Lalbagh. I americium not a huffy man. Only astir the stone portion determination is an exit planned. I cognize if I interaction Lalbagh, radical volition interruption my head,” the DCM said, promising the continuity of passageway roadworthy projects alongside different monolithic infrastructure projects taken up by the Congress government.
“Whatever instrumentality the Congress enactment makes, nary different authorities tin change. Even during the GBA deliberations, BJP and JD(S) leaders excessively gave their suggestions,” helium added.
