From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Mar 19: The Bruhat Bengaluru MahanagaraPalike (BBMP) is being split into three separate corporations for ensuring better administration and governance.

This was decided by the State Cabinet at its meeting in Bengaluru on Thursday.

A three-member expert committee headed by former Chief Secretary B S Patil has recommended the trifurcation of the BBMP.

The panel was constituted to restructure the BBMP.

With this, elections to the BBMP, which were scheduled to be held next month, would likely to be postponed.

No new areas would be incorporated into the three newly carved corporations.

The existing 198 wards of the BBMP would come under jurisdictions of three different corporations, according to official source.

The State Cabinet has also decided to split the Bangalore University, which has over 600 degree colleges affiliated to it into three.

Following the trifurcation of the Bangalore University, 200 colleges would be affiliated to each university.

Two newly carved universities would commence functioning from the existing post-graduation centres from coming academic year (2015-16).

The Higher Education Department would demarcate colleges and areas that would fall under the existing Bangalore University and two new universities, official sources said.