bangalore though the city has grown from 225sqkm to 800sqkm bruhat bangalore mahanagara palike bbmp is still woefully shortstaffed there are only 13000 people including pourakarmikas to manage the entire city says bbmpbbmp special commissioner k r niranjan said on friday the city corporation has 111 hospitals 1140 parks 136 schools 154 playgrounds and 10121km roads and 569 slums both notified and nonnotified slums but there are only 13000 people to manage this he was speaking at the second girem global initiative for restructuring environment and management bengaluru smart future cityduring the discussion on microgovernance niranjan pitched for junior engineers and health inspectors taking charge of matters of micro governancesudhir sethi founder chairman and managing director idg ventures india suggested more call centres should come up in bbmp to provide services at the ward level local resident welfare associations should be involved for better administration he saidtraffic managementsethi suggested they should demarcate parking space with parking lines to enable people park vehicles scientifically by improving public transport they have to levy central business district cbd tax on private vehicles and this would reduce congestionbbmp special commissioner said that they planned to levy parking fees but the council came down heavily stating it was an unpopular measuretv mohandas pai directoradministration education and research finance hr infosys technologies said his five important steps for better infrastructure would be create groups and mobilize people for action demand better governance by implementing the kasturirangan report longterm plan to set right urban transport by deploying 4000 buses and improve quality of roads and support bangalore metro rail corporation limited implement the metro projectmultimode systemmultimode transport transit system would be implemented in december ksrtc managing director gaurav gupta said work on the rs 1000cr project would begin by december 2011 by next march people would be able to know details about bus service on their mobiles the ksrtc is working towards implementing a system for better interface with commuters