Civic experts slam proposal for separate authority to oversee road maintenance

Many suggest that the govt. should identify problems and strengthen BBMP instead

The government’s proposal to constitute a separate authority for the maintenance of 860-km of arterial and sub-arterial roads in the city has not gone down well with citizens’ groups and civic experts. The proposal was one of the main talking points at a meeting on city development chaired by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on August 10. The State government has already divested the civic body of solid waste management and constituted a separate body to handle it. There were also conversations about divesting the BBMP of health and education. However, those proposals never came to fruition especially after the onset of COVID-19. Since then, the civic body’s role in public health has become even more important.