The City Municipal Councils of Tumkur, Shimoga and Bijapur have all been
upgraded as city corporations, with Governor H.R. Bhardwaj approving a
notification late on Friday.
Earlier proposal
The incumbent government had been planning to upgrade the three city
municipal councils into city corporations based on a proposal which was
initially mooted by the previous government of Jagadish Shettar.
At a recent meeting of the State Cabinet, Minister for Urban Development
Vinay Kumar Sorake had placed the proposal to upgrade the three towns
as municipal corporations given the increase in population.
With the addition of the three new municipal corporations, the total
number of the corporations in the State will increase to 11. The others
are Bangalore, Mangalore, Mysore, Davangere, Bellary, Gulbarga,
Hubli-Dharwad and Belgaum.
Special funds
Sources in the State government told The Hindu that with the
upgrading, Shimoga, Tumkur and Bijapur will stand to benefit in a big
way given the fact that the Union government will allocate special funds
for their all-round development. Plans are also afoot to develop Tumkur
as a satellite town to decongest Bangalore, which is almost 850 sq. km
and a population of around 1 crore.
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