The Karnataka authorities lately issued an order reassigning IAS and IPS officers serving the erstwhile Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to the Higher Bengaluru Authority (GBA) and 5 metropolis companies beneath it.
This order will apply to 16 IAS and two IPS officers serving beneath varied capacities at BBMP. The BBMP had a chief commissioner, seven particular commissioners, eight zonal commissioners, an extra director basic of police, and a superintendent of police.
As per the order issued August 29, the GBA might be headed by a chief commissioner and could have 4 particular commissioners tasked to go varied departments beneath the umbrella company monitoring the town companies beneath it.
Every of the town companies might be headed by a commissioner and could have an extra commissioner in its ranks. All these posts might be dealt with by IAS officers, in keeping with the order. The 2 IPS officers deputed to the Bengaluru Metropolitan Job Pressure (BMTF) of BBMP will now be deputed to the GBA.
The GBA Act was handed by the Karnataka legislature in March this yr, regardless of protests from the Opposition BJP. On August 26, the federal government issued a notification forming the GBA, which can come into power from September 2. The GBA could have 75 members with the chief minister as its chairman and the deputy chief minister as vice-chairman.