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Repeal and Savings.- (1) The provisions of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Act, 2020 (Karnataka Act No. 53 of 2020) and Rules made thereunder are hereby repealed. Provided that, such repeal shall not affect,- (a) anything done or any action taken under the said Act; or (b) the previous operation of the said Act or anything duly done or suffered thereunder; or (c) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under the said Act; or (d) any penalty or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed under the said Act: Provided further that, the provisions of section 6 of the Karnataka General Clauses Act, 1899 (Karnataka Act III of 1899) shall be applicable in respect of repeal of the said Act. Provided also that subject to the preceding proviso anything done or any action taken (including any appointment or delegation made, tax, duty, fee, or cess imposed, notification, order, instrument, or direction issued, rule, regulation, form, bye-law or scheme framed, certificate obtained, permit or licence granted or registration effected) under the said enactments shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provision of this Act and shall continue to be in force accordingly unless and until superseded by anything done or any action taken under this Act: Provided also that, notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding provisos where any tax, duty, fee or cess other than a duty on transfers of immovable properties has been imposed under the said enactments at a rate higher than the maximum rate permissible under this Act, such tax, duty, fee or cess may continue to be imposed and collected at such higher rate unless and until superseded by anything done or any action taken under this Act (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), any tax, duty, fee, or cess imposed under the said Act may, notwithstanding that such tax, duty, fee or cess cannot be imposed under the provisions of this Act, be continued to be levied and recovered as if the provisions of such enactments, the rules, bye-laws, orders and notifications made or issued thereunder relating to such levy and recovery had not been repealed. SCHEDULE – I (see section 111) (1) Core Functions.- (i) Urban planning including town planning; (ii) Regulation of land-use including protection of public land from encroachment and construction of buildings; (iii) Planning for economic and social development; (iv) Roads including flyover, underpass, subway, traffic islands, footpath road crossing facility, skywalk and bridges; (v) Water supply for domestic, industrial and commercial purposes; (vi) Public health, sanitation including storm water drains, conservancy and solid and liquid waste management; (vii) Fire services; (viii) Urban forestry, protection of the environment, promotion of ecological aspects and maintenance of environmental hygiene; (ix) Safe guarding the interests of persons with physical and mental disabilities; (x) Slum improvement and upgradation including providing basic facilities; (xi) Urban poverty alleviation; (xii) Provision and maintenance of urban amenities and facilities such as parks, gardens, playgrounds, public markets, bathing and washing ghats, waiting sheds for travelers; (xiii) Promotion of cultural, educational and aesthetic aspects; (xiv) Establishment and maintenance of burial and burning grounds, cremations, cremation grounds and electric crematoriums; (xv) Cattle pounds, care and veterinary services including prevention of cruelty to animals; (xvi) Collection and updating of vital statistics including registration of births, deaths and marriages; (xvii) Provision and maintenance of public amenities including street lighting, parking spaces for vehicles, bus stops and public conveniences like toilet facilities at public places; and (xviii) Regulation of slaughter houses and tanneries and sale of meat, fish and other perishable food stuffs among others. (2) General Functions.- (i) Organising voluntary workers and promote community participation in all development activities; (ii) Organise campaign for thrift; (iii) Awareness building against social evils such as dowry, domestic violence, abuse of children, casteism, homophobia, and xenophobia; (iv) Organize legal awareness campaigns among weaker sections, campaign against economic offences, adherence to civic duties, and promoting communal harmony; (v) Organise relief activities during natural calamities and maintain relief centres like hospitals, dispensaries, asylums, rescue homes, maternity house sand child welfare centres , etc.; (vi) Mobilising local resources in cash or in kind; (vii) Organise and promote resident welfare associations, neighbor hood groups and committees, and self-help groups with focus on the poor; (viii) Disclosure and dissemination of information of public interest; (ix) Maintenance of public properties; (x) Issue of licence to dangerous and offensive trades and industries; (xi) Issue of licence to domestic pet animals; (xii) Conservation and preservation water including of bodies gardens and green spaces; (xiii) Conservation and preservation of places and buildings of historical and cultural importance; (xiv) Promoting energy efficiency and build awareness son climate change; and (xv) Promote introduction of Information Technology and e-Governance in the working of the City Corporation. (3) Sector-wise functions.- (i) Urban Planning including Town Planning: (a) Planned development of new areas for human settlement, erection and maintenance of boundary marks defining the limits or any alteration in the limits; (b) Measures for beautification of the City Corporation area by setting up fountains, providing recreational areas, improving river banks, and landscaping; (c) Integration of the development plans and schemes of the municipal area with the district or regional development plan; and (d) Preparation and keeping upto date of appropriate maps, data and records of lands within City Corporation and utility to which such lands are from time to time put. (ii) Environment and Social Forestry: (a) Organise campaigns for environmental awareness; (b) Motivating local action for its upgradation, planting of trees, etc.; (c) Reclamation of waste lands, promotion of social forestry and maintenance of open spaces; and (d) Establishment and maintenance of nurseries, promotion of greenery. (iii) Small Scale Industries: (a) Promotion of handicrafts; (b) Formulate and implement self-employment schemes in industrial sector; and (c) Implementation of the entrepreneur development programmes. (iv) Housing: (a) Identify the homeless, provision of house sites and houses, implementation of shelter rejuvenation programmes; and (b) Mobilise fund necessary for housing. (v) Education and Culture: (a) Run the pre-primary, primary, higher secondary and technical schools, vocational training centres, and implement literacy programmes; (b) Promote civic education, adult education, social education including family planning, environmental education and non formal education; (c) Promotion of cultural activities including music, physical education, sports and theatres and infrastructure there for; (d) Advancement of science and technology in urban life; (e) Organization, establishment and maintenance of art galleries and botanical or zoological collections; (f) Maintenance of City Corporation office, and of all public monuments and places of historical, artistic and other importance; (g) Presentation of awards to persons of distinction, paying homage on death to persons of repute; and (h) Holding and regulation of fairs, festivals, industrial and health exhibitions. (vi) Public Works: Construct and maintain the roads except National Highways, State Highways and major District roads within the City Corporation, and buildings for institutions including those transferred from Government. (vii) Public Health and Sanitation: (a) Run dispensaries, primary and public health centers and hospitals under all systems of medicines, child welfare centers and mother care homes; (b) Organise remedial and other preventive measures against disease; (c) Implement family welfare programmes; (d) Organise mass inoculation campaigns for eradication of infectious diseases; (e) Reclamation of unhealthy localities, removal of noxious vegetation and abatement of all nuisances; (f) Maintenance of all public tanks and regulating the re excavation, repair and up-keep of all tanks, wells and other sources of water- supply and provision for unfiltered water supply for non-domestic uses; (g) Public vaccination, prophylactic inoculations, vector control; (h) Maintenance of ambulance service; (i) Advancement of civic consciousness of public health and general welfare by organizing discourses, seminars and conferences; (j) Prevention of food adulteration and control of eating-houses; and (k) Effective implementation of national and state strategies and programmes for prevention and control of diseases. (l) (viii) Social Welfare: (a) Run Anganwadis, and institutions for the welfare of persons with disability, urban poor among others; (b) Sanction and distribute pension to persons with disability, widows, urban poor, distribute unemployment wages, and implement Group Insurance Scheme to the poor; (c) Implementation of programmes for liberation and rehabilitation of scavengers and their families; (d) Campaigns for dissemination of information, vital for public welfare; and (e) Securing or removal of dangerous buildings and places, obstructions and projections in or upon streets, bridges and other public places. (ix) Eradication of poverty: (a) Develop skills and implement self-employment and group employment schemes for the poor, especially for women; and (b) Create community assets to get continuing benefit to the poor. (x) Development of Persons belonging to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe: (a) Implementation of beneficiary-oriented schemes under Special Component Plan (SCP) and Tribal Sub Plan(TSP)and provide basic facilities in the residential centres and financial assistance for the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe; and (b) Run nursery schools, vocational training centres for the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe. (xi) Public Distribution System: (a) Examine complaints against public distribution system and find out and implement remedial measures; (b) Organise campaigns against offences relating to weights and measures; and (c) General supervision of shops and other public distribution system and to provide guidance. (xii) Disaster Relief: Maintain relief centres and organise relief activities like provision to hospitals, dispensaries, asylums, rescue homes, maternity houses, and child welfare centres, crematorium, burial ground among other. SCHEDULE – II (see section 300) GRADE-I GRADE-II GRADE- III HERITAGE PRECINCTS Definition Heritage Grade-I comprises Buildings and Precincts of National or historic importance, embodying Excellence in architectural style, design, Technology and Material usage and/or aesthetics; They maybe associated with a historic event, personality, Movement or institution. They have been and are The prime Landmarks of The region. All natural Sites shall fall Within Grade-I. Heritage Grade- II comprises of buildings And precincts of Regional or local importance possessing special architectural or Aesthetic merit, or cultural or historical significance though of a lower scale than Heritage Grade- I. They are local Land marks, which Contribute to the Image and identity of the region. They May be the work of master crafts folks or maybe Models of Proportion and ornamentation or designed to Suit a particular climate. Heritage Grade- III comprises buildings And precincts of Importance for townscape; that evoke architectural aesthetic, or sociological interest though not as much as in Heritage Grade-II. These Contribute to Determine the Character of the Locality and can be representative of lifestyle of a particular community or region and may also be distinguished by setting, or special Character of the Façade and Uniformity of height, width and scale. A heritage Precinct is an Area of heritage value. It may consist of a number of buildings and spaces, such as streets, with cultural or heritage significance worth recognition and conservation, or it may be an area where the relationship between various elements, creates a special sense of place like mass, scale, building material, typology, roof profile and shapes or containing architectural style or elements. Precincts are of different importance and are made up of different types of elements such as houses, trees, commercial properties and public spaces Combining to create a unique significance. Objective Deserves careful Deserves intelligent Deserves intelligent Precincts deserve appropriate preservation conservation conservation (though on a lesser scale than Grade-II and special protection to unique features and attributes) repair and maintenance and very sensitive development i.e. regarding the mass, scale and setting. It also requires conservation of its heritage and cultural significance Scope for Change no interventions shall be permitted either on exterior or interior of the heritage building or natural features unless it is necessary in the interest of strengthening and prolonging the life of the buildings/or precincts or any part or features thereof. For this purpose, absolutely essential and minimum changes shall be allowed and they must be inconformity with the original Grade-II(A): Internal changes and adaptive re-use may be allowed, subject to strict scrutiny. care should be taken to ensure the conservation of all special aspects for which it is included in Heritage Grade-II. Grade-II(B): In addition to the above, extension or additional building on the same plot or compound may in certain circumstances, be allowed provided that the extension/ additional building is in harmony with (and does not detract from) the existing heritage building/(s)or precincts especially in terms of height and façade and provided that the additional internal changes and adaptive re- use may by and large be allowed. Changes may include extensions and additional buildings on the same plot or compound. However, any changes Should be such that they are in harmony and should be such that they do not detract from the existing heritage building/precinct especially in terms of height and façade and provided that the extension/ additional building is not larger than the original building in mass and scale Sensitive additions, alterations, extensions and interior renovations shall be permissible but these should not alter the character of the building/precinct. The new interventions may be contemporary but subtle or inspired by the original character and not tasteless imitation. Reconstruction is permissible but only for buildings that are totally structurally un safe as certified by a structural engineer and corroborated by the Heritage Conservation Committee. The reconstruction should not follow the prevailing bye laws but should be in such a manner which ensures that the building/ precinct character is not diminished, yet allows for growth and good urban building is not larger than the original building in terms of mass and scale. design. Urban Design Guidelines Should be prepared separately for each of the listed heritage precincts as extension of the bye laws. All constructions within heritage precincts should be governed by the said guidelines The above translation of ಗ್ರೇಟರ್ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಆಡಳಿತ ಅಧಿನಿಯಮ, 2024 (2025 ರ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಅಧಿನಿಯಮ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ:36) be published in the official Gazette under Article 348 of the Constitution of India. THAAWARCHAND GEHLOT GOVERNOR OF KARNATAKA By Order and in the name of the Governor of Karnataka, G. SRIDHAR Secretary to Government Department of Parliamentary Affairs and Legislation ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಅಧಿಸೂಚನೆ ಗ್ರೇಟರ್ಬೆಂಗಳೂರುಆಡಳಿತಅಧಿನಿಯಮ, 2024 (2025ರಕರ್ನಾಟಕಅಧಿನಿಯಮಸಂಖ್ಯೆ: 36)ರ1ನೇಪ್ರಕರಣದ(3)ನೇಉಪ್ - ಚಲಾಯಿಸಿ ಪ್ರಕರಣದಲ್ಲಿಪ್ರದತತವಾದಅಧಿಕಾರವನ್ನು , ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸಕಾಾರವು ಈ ಮೂಲಕ ಸದರಿ ಅಧಿನಿಯಮವು / ಅಧಿನಿಯಮದ ಎಲಾಿ ಪ್ರಕರಣಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ಉಪ್ಬಂಧಗಳು " ದಿರ್ನೆಂಕ : 15-05-2025" ರಿೆಂದಜಾರಿಗ್ಬರತಕಕದ್ದೆಂದುಗೊತ್ತತಪ್ಡಿಸಿದ್. ಕರ್ನಾಟಕರಾಜ್ೆಪಾಲರಆದೇಶಾನ್ನಸಾರ ಮತ್ತತಅವರಹೆಸರಿನಲ್ಲಿ (ನಂದಕುಮಾರ್. ಬಿ) ಸಕಾಾರ ಅಧಿೇನ ಕಾಯಾದರ್ಶಾ ನಗರಾಭಿವೃದಿಿ ಇಲಾಖ್ಯ (ಬಿ.ಬಿ.ಎೆಂ.ಪಿ-2 & ಸಮಸವಯ) ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ: ನಅಇ 100 ಬಿಬಿಎಸ್ 2025 ಭಾ-2 ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸಕಾಾರ ಸಚಿವಾಲಯ ವಿಕಾಸಸೌಧ, 2ನೇ ಮಹಡಿ, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು, ದಿರ್ನೆಂಕ: 14.05.2025 KARNATAKA ACT NO. 60 OF 2025 (First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the 12th day of September, 2025) THE GREATER BENGALURU GOVERNANCE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2025 (Received the assent of the Governor on the 11th day of September, 2025) An Act to amend the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024. Whereas it is expedient to amend the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024 (Karnataka Act 36 of 2025) for purposes hereinafter appearing: Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the seventy sixth year of the Republic India as follows:-