BELAGAVI
Expansion of city is on the cards, with Public Works Minister Satish Jarkiholi instructing officials concerned to start working on merging the villages attached to the city with Belagavi City Corporation (BCC) and increasing the number of wards. Now the proposal is awaiting the nod from the Urban Development Department.
After Bengaluru, the city is known as the second largest one. The multi lingual border city with 58 wards has been predominantly divided in to North and South assembly constituencies and some parts in Rural and Yamakanmaradi constituencies.
The city, which was a town municipal corporation with 52 wards in 1985, was upgraded to City Corporation with 58 wards in 1991. Since then, the city has developed with many new localities. The wards have not been reorganised from 30 years.
The current population of the city is 7,67,000, which has gone up by 1.9 percent from 2022. The government has now proposed to raise the number of wards of City Corporation by including about a dozen of villages adjoining to the city and reorganising the existing wards based on population. There is a plan to increase the number of city corporation wards upto 90 from 58.
Minister Satish Jarkiholi said that, to increase the number of wards in Corporation, he had tabled a proposal before the Urban Development Ministry and also instructed the city corporation to work on the plan.
It is planned to include Bastawad, Modaga, Hindalaga, Macche, Halaga, Sambra, Peeranwadi, Dhamane villages from Belagavi Rural assembly constituency and Kakati, Honaga, Bennali villages from Yamakanamaradi constituency into the city corporation, the Minister added.
