GBA Formed with 75 Members; Maheshwar Rao Appointed Commissioner

### Quick Summary
– The Karnataka State Goverment has established the greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), chaired by the Chief Minister and co-chaired by the bengaluru Progress Minister.
– The GBA will serve as a pan-city coordination body aimed at improving synergy among five corporations, set to come into effect on September 2, alongside parastatal agencies.
– M. Maheshwar Rao has been appointed as Chief Commissioner of GBA along with being Chief Commissioner of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).- The GBA includes three designated officials-Chief Commissioner (also member secretary),a chief town planner,and chief engineer-but lacks a designated finance post.
– Members include all MLAs, MPs from both houses with votes in Bengaluru (including Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman), as well as mayors and commissioners of the five corporations. Heads of key city parastatals like BMTC, BMRCL, DULT, BMLTA police departments are part of this unified platform for coordinated development efforts.
– Entities such as Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka) spearheading suburban rail projects and Bengaluru Smart Infrastructure Ltd. are excluded from depiction on the GBA.
– Civic activists have criticized exclusions like Home/Energy/Transport ministers that were included in earlier drafts but removed before enactment.
– Critics argue that the GBA undercuts corporation autonomy and raises constitutional concerns regarding its role between municipal governance and state authority; court PILs are challenging its legitimacy based on these grounds.
– An amendment passed during Karnataka Legislative Assembly clarifies that the GBA cannot interfere directly in corporation affairs.

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### Indian Opinion Analysis
The creation of the Greater Bengaluru Authority signifies an aspiring attempt at addressing one of India’s largest urban challenges: fragmented governance within megacities like Bengaluru struggling with interdepartmental coordination issues across multiple bodies responsible for infrastructure delivery or city planning.

While centralized coordination offers promise for accelerating efficient urban service delivery-especially given inclusion breadth spanning MLAs to agency heads-the lack of dedicated financial roles combined w ongoing judicial scrutiny reflect scaled intricacy sustainability further clearly weaker defined boundary stakeholder axials visibility opening.

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