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The Greater Bengaluru Bill provides for all MPs and MLAs who reside in the state capital and are included in the electoral rolls of the city to be members of the Greater Bengaluru Authority.
Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, who holds the Bengaluru Development portfolio, said, “The public representatives who are voters here (Bengaluru) have been left out. We have some areas of Chikkaballapura Lok Sabha constituency represented by Rajya Sabha member Sudha Murthy, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and K Sudhakar falling under the GBA.
He will be a member of GBA. So this amendment is about that.” He said the amendment also makes the Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary, Urban Development and the Secretary of the Finance Department as members of the GBA.
BJP’s S Suresh Kumar wanted to know whether voting rights at two places would be allowed if public representatives in the GBA could be voters in other corporations also.
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On this, Shivakumar said that there will be no election system in GBA.
Deputy CM said, “This is a policy making body.”
The objects and reasons of the Karnataka Rent (Amendment) Bill state that it has been introduced to achieve the principle of “minimum government maximum governance” by decriminalizing minor offenses and rationalizing monetary penalties as envisaged in the Public Trust (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023.
The amendment states that if a landlord or tenant fails to furnish a copy of the lease agreement for registration required under clause (a) or (b) of sub-section (3) of section 4 or fails to file the particulars required under the provision, he shall, if found guilty, be punished with fine. 2,000 or simple imprisonment for one month or both.
The same thing applies to the middlemen involved in this.
Other bills that were approved include the Karnataka Land Revenue (Second Amendment) Bill, the Greater Bengaluru Governance (Second Amendment) Bill, the Sri Malai Mahadeswaraswamy Area Development Authority (Amendment) Bill, the Chandraguthi Sri Renukamba Area Development Authority Bill and the Sri Chamundeshwari Area Development Authority and Certain Other Laws (Amendment) Bill.
The Karnataka Cine and Cultural Workers (Welfare) (Amendment) Bill, Karnataka Labor Welfare Fund (Amendment) Bill, Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments (Amendment) Bill, Karnataka State University (Second Amendment) Bill, Byalaseem Development Board (Amendment) Bill and Malnad Area Development Board (Amendment) Bill were also approved.