JD(S): Land grabbing mafia, influx of criminals, crawling traffic, multiple overlapping agencies responsible for infrastructure.

“A growing Bangalore has a growing number of problems”. Lok Paritran (a new party created by ex-IITians and professionals): “Crumbling infrastructure has been source of concern for many employers and employees in the state. Poor roads, chronic power shortages and traffic congestion in many cities have contributed to the state not unlocking its full economic potential”.

The solution...

Congress: “The Congress party promises that it will restore the pride of Bangalore internationally once again by giving due importance and attention to develop and upgrade infrastructure in the city”.

On administrative reforms: “we will initiate action to legislate the creation of a single agency for all the state-level service providers under the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike”.

Infrastructure: completion of existing programmes in a time-bound manner, inner core ring roads, freeing up of intersections, widening of roads in high-density corridors.

Environment: introduction of compulsory CNG for government vehicles.

BJP: “Bangalore has the potential to become the No 1 city in India and an internationally prominent metropolis. “First and foremost Bangalore needs good city leadership. We therefore propose that the mayor must be directly elected by the people”.

Creation of a metropolitan planning council for the BBMP area and a transport authority.

Explore possibility of bringing water to Bangalore from new sources like the Hemavathi river.

JD(S): “To tackle the problem of the exploding population growth of Bangalore our party has decided to adopt the models of vertical growth seen in the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai”.

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