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BMP's building bylaws on Internet

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JUNE 11. The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike's revised building bylaws are now available on its website www.bmponline.org.

This apart, all the resolutions adopted by the BMP Council and the eight standing committees in the council are also on the Net.

The Mayor, P.R. Ramesh, and the BMP Commissioner, M.R. Sreenivasa Murthy, told presspersons here on Friday that over 425 resolutions adopted by the council with effect from January 1 this year had been incorporated in the website.

Citizens could take a print of the desired resolutions and get it certified from any of the Citizen Service Centres on payment of Rs. 10, Mr. Murthy said.

As the council section records the resolutions in Kannada, they would be available only in Kannada on the site. Whereas the building bylaws are available in English and Kannada, he said.

The draft of the revised bylaws was released by the BMP in February last year.

The rules were gazetted by the State Government on March 4 and have come into force from June 5. So, all construction plans submitted to the BMP for sanction from June 5 onwards would have to comply with the new rules, the commissioner said.

Besides rainwater harvesting and tree planting, the new rules include making it mandatory for all new buildings to have safety measures against earthquake, solar water heating, facilities for physically handicapped persons, and parking for visitors' vehicles in high-rise buildings.

The zoning regulations of the revised Comprehensive Development Plan 1995 for the Metropolitan area had been adopted in full in the new rules. To ensure that buildings were earthquake-resistant, provision had been made for norms as prescribed under the National Building Code, the Mayor said.

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