Civic body plans to build five one-stop points at Rs. 5.19 cr.

These buildings will come up in Shivajinagar, Vijayanagar, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Chickpet and Gandhinagar

August 19, 2014 12:09 am | Updated 12:09 am IST - Bangalore:

Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will be building five multi-storey buildings in five Assembly constituencies in the city.

These buildings, to come up in Shivajinagar, Vijayanagar, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Chickpet and Gandhinagar are designed to serve as one-stop points for all works related to the civic body in the area.

To house important departments

Each building will house offices of all important BBMP departments, such as Revenue, Health and Engineering. They will also house offices of all the jurisdictional BBMP councillors and the MLAs. The five buildings are to be built at a cost of Rs. 5.19 crore.

A.H. Basavaraju, chairperson of the ward-wise Public Works Standing Committee, said the committee recently approved various projects, including provision of public toilets, renovation of public schools, provision of streetlights in Mandur, at a total cost of Rs. 22.31 crore..

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