The 15th Finance Commission may recommend up to 2 lakh crore in fund allocation over the next five years to municipalities across the count...

This should significantly improve the financial health of those local bodies, many of them aiming to raise bonds. Asia’s richest civic body...

AnalytIQ was founded in 2019 by ex-cricketer and Indian Premier League (IPL) presenter Suhail Chandhok and husband-wife entrepreneurial duo...

In a separate development, a former councillor has moved the high court questioning the appointment of an administrator to the BBMP and see...

Two corporators who have served as mayors of the city including M Goutham Kumar who completed his tenure last week, said that one year was ...

The proposed overhaul, which is likely to be rolled out in the first quarter of the new financial year, borrows best practices from various...

Between 2012 and 2014, the state government gave the city corporation Rs 6,498 crore for various projects, documents show.

The Annual Survey of India’s City Systems, which examines city systems on the basis of 83 governance parameters, reveals that Indian cities...

Interestingly , this private initiative was well underway even as Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, in May 2016, constituted a Bengaluru Bluepri...

The agency could not muster even half of its projected revenue in 2015-16, resulting in capital and revenue expenditure being slashed by Rs...

In the past fiscal, the tax collection target was Rs 2,456 cr from an estimated 15 lakh properties against which the BBMP could collect onl...

Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram have jointly been ranked on top among cities in terms of governance and quality of life that is sustainable i...

Under the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, the BBMP mayor or the council do not have ex ecutive powers -their decisions need to be rat...

This is part of a set of drastic financial reforms in the civic corporation, an institution notorious for financial indiscipline.

If elections happen, it is a great occasion for citizens to demand candidates to demonstrate political leadership and support for governanc...

State Election Commission is preparing to hold elections before August 28 and the Namma Bengaluru Foundation appealed to not to extend poll...

Interestingly they were all provisions that not only impact the quality of life in Bengaluru but also provide leeway for Bengalureans to ac...