20 members elected to BMPC

 As a major step to facilitate the implementation of the Akrama-Sakrama scheme, 20 members were elected unopposed to the Bangalore Metropolitan Planning Committee (BMPC) on Monday.

The committee was constituted based on the High Court direction on a petition by C N Kumar. The High Court had ordered the government to constitute BMPC ahead of implementing the Akrama-Sakrama scheme. The elections were conducted at the office of the Regional Commissioner Gaurav Gupta and all the parties had fielded candidates after arriving at a consensus.

The twenty members include 10 BBMP corporators from BJP – Dr Geetha Shashikumar, B Govindaraju, A H Basavaraju, G Manjunath Raju, Dr S Raju, B S Manjunath Reddy, C K Ramamurthy, S N Sridhar Reddy and P N Sadashiva. The committee has six congress members – M K Gunashekar, K Doddanna, Devika Rani Sridhar, Udayashankar, O Manjunath and R S Sathyanarayana, and two JD-S members – Thimme Gowda and L Nagarathna.

Election of 20 members was a major hurdle for the formation of the committee since other members are nominated by the State government.