This is the draft bill which the Govt shared for seeking Feedback, Suggestions and Objections.  ⬇️

on the link:  https://kla.kar.nic.in/assembly/bills/bill1640_34.pdf 

THIS IS THE BILL THE GOVT TABLED IN THE BUDGET SESSION OF LEGISTLATURE ON 9TH MARCH 2025, AND WAS PASSED BY THE LOWER HOUSE & UPPER HOUSE, AND SENT TO THE GOVERNOR FOR ASSENT:

https://kla.kar.nic.in/assembly/commjsc5/jsc5_rep1_2024-25.pdf

PLEASE NOTE, THIS DRAFT WAS NOT PRESENTED FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION, ALTHOUH IT WAS READY WHEN THE PUBLIC CONSULTATION WAS ANNOUNCED.   THIS POINTS TO MALICIOUS INTENT BY THE GOVT AND THE STANDING COMMITTEE.  THIS WAS DELIBERATE DENIAL.

You may copy these into your letters, or print and submit or email these with your endorsements. 

Since 1992, the Nagarpalika Act or the Constitution 74th Amendment Act stipulates the structure for Planning and Governance of cities.  A Model Municipal Law has also been shared by the Ministry of Urban Development.  

States are required to follow this law.  Instead, states have been legislating their own laws which are not fully in compliance with the Nagarpalika Act. 

The BBMP Act 2020 itself is not fully in compliance with the Nagarpalika Act.  Several PILs have challened unconstitional provisions in the act.

Now we are facing the prospect of another law, the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, which proposes to be a super law, above the BBMP Act, again violationg various provisions in the constitution.

This is for all of us to consider.

RESOURCES FROM MINISTRY OF HOUSING & URBAN AFFAIRS

Urban and Regional Development Plans - Guidelines

Policy Option Paper for Framing Municipal Law in India 

Contents

• Drafting Team  size:( 0.1 MB)

• Preface  size:( 0.05 MB)

• Foreword  size:( 0.07 MB)

• Acknowledgement  size:( 0.06 MB)

• Executive Summary  size:( 0.21 MB)

 PRELIMINARY

• Area of Application  size:( 0.17 MB)

 CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT

• Criteria of Municipalization  size:( 0.13 MB)

• Industrial Townships  size:( 0.1 MB)

• Composition of Municipalities  size:( 0.14 MB)

• Composition of Mayor-in-Council / Chairman-in-Council / Standing Committee  size:( 0.13 MB)

• Assignment of Executive Powers  size:( 0.11 MB)

• Election of Mayor/ Chairperson/ President  size:( 0.11 MB)

• Term of Office of the Councillors, the Mayor / Chairman / President, and the Political Executive  size:( 0.12 MB)

• Wards Committees and Ward Committees  size:( 0.12 MB)

• Subject Committees  size:( 0.12 MB)

• Organizational Structure of Municipality  size:( 0.12 MB)

• Functional Domain of the Municipalities  size:( 0.14 MB)

• Duration of Municipalities, Dissolution and Control  size:( 0.13 MB)

 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF MUNICIPALITIES

• Municipal Fund  size:( 0.14 MB)

• Budget Estimates  size:( 0.13 MB)

• Accounts and Audit  size:( 0.16 MB)

• Municipal Property  size:( 0.11 MB)

• Borrowings  size:( 0.14 MB)

 MUNICIPAL REVENUE

• Sources of Internal Revenues  size:( 0.15 MB)

• Tax on Lands and Buildings and Other Taxes  size:( 0.24 MB)

 URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES

• Private Sector Participation Agreement and Assignment to Other Agencies  size:( 0.17 MB)

 URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, COMMUNITY HEALTH AND PUBLIC SAFETY

• Local Agenda for Urban Environmental Management  size:( 0.15 MB)

• Environmental Sanitation and Community Health  size:( 0.12 MB)

 REGULATORY JURISDICTION

• Development Plans, Improvement, Public Streets, Buildings, Preservation and Conservation of Heritage Buildings, Municipal Licences and Vital Statistics  size:( 0.19 MB)

 POWERS, PROCEDURES, OFFENCES AND PENALTIES

• Procedure, Rules and Regulations, Offences and Penalties and Supplemental Provisions  size:( 0.12 MB)

 ANNEXES

• Some Possible Variations in A Unified Law for Different Levels of Municipalities  size:( 0.12 MB)

• Some Illustrations of the Variations Made for Different Levels of Municipalities in the Specimen Municipal Law  size:( 0.07 MB)

• Criteria of Municipalization Pre-and-Post- 74th Constitution Amendment Provisions of Some State Enactments  size:( 0.12 MB)

• Milestones in Development of Municipal Bond Market in India  size:( 0.1 MB)

• Municipal Taxes, User Charges and Licence Fee as Levied in India  size:( 0.27 MB)

• Levy of Property Taxes in India – Grounds for Challenges in Courts  size:( 0.15 MB)

• Area Linked System as Introduced in Patna  size:( 0.12 MB)

• Area Linked System as Introduced in Gujarat  size:( 0.12 MB)

• Area Linked System as Introduced in Madhya Pradesh  size:( 0.09 MB)

• Area Linked System as Introduced in Tamil Nadu  size:( 0.12 MB)

• The Karnataka Municipal Corporations (Amendment) Ordinance, 2000  size:( 0.15 MB)

• The TRF Model  size:( 0.3 MB)

• Some Built-in-Defects of The Slab System for Levy of Consolidated Rates Under the 1951 Act and The Reform Introduced as per Straight Line System in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980  size:( 0.1 MB)

• Unique Premises Numbering System for Tax Mapping in India  size:( 0.08 MB)

PILs in High Court challenging BBMP Act 2020 for non compliance with Nagarpalika Act

• https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/pil-challenges-bbmp-act-2020-in-karnataka-high-court-952841.html

• https://www.thenewsminute.com/karnataka/hc-issues-notice-karnataka-govt-plea-challenging-sections-bbmp-act-173911

• https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/pil-challenges-bbmp-act-2020-968135.html

WHY A PROPER LEGISLATION THAT COMPLIES WITH THE CONSTITUTION IS ESSENTIAL