Maintained cities, every day.
Eight integrated programmes — Day 0–100 Deep Clean, Structural Rebuild, Road Safety, 100% CCTV with civil-liberties rails, Public Toilet Network, Five Amenities flagship, Public Dustbin Network, and the Karnataka Digital Twin. Reactive contractor-driven civic spending replaced with maintained, transparent, citizen-rated infrastructure.
The structural failures in Cities 2.0.
Karnataka's cities are growing faster than their infrastructure. The failure shows up at street level, every monsoon and every commute.
Flooded streets
Overflowing storm drains. Rebuilt footpaths that crumble within a year. Unsafe pedestrian crossings.
Water + sewage breaks
Shortages in some wards while pipes leak in others. Sewage that pollutes lakes and groundwater. Non-revenue water poorly measured.
Congestion + transit residual
Hours of productive time lost in commute. Bus services treated as the residual mode after metro and private vehicles.
Worker unaffordability
Sanitation workers, gig riders, hospital staff, garment workers — priced out of the cities they keep running.
Road deaths
Pedestrians, two-wheeler riders, cyclists, school children at crossings — the most vulnerable bear the cost of unsafe streets.
The structural cause is consistent: most city spending is reactive, contractor-driven, and not maintained. The Maintain step of the public-project cycle is absent from urban governance.
Four institutions. Eight integrated programmes. One operating rule.
Cities 2.0 is built around four institutions that own the maintenance commitment, plus eight flagship programmes that operationalise it on the ground.
Four operating loops.
Not promises about future infrastructure. This is how the city runs once Cities 2.0 is operational — for a worker commuting daily, a parent with a child at school, a senior with a mobility need, and a citizen reporting a defect.
Bus on time, ticket on one card.
Mobility Authority publishes the route plan; operators bid against it — your bus runs on a schedule the city owns.
One ticket — bus, BRT, metro, commuter rail, last-mile. No multi-app shuffle.
Real-time arrival and dispatch on JANATA; published on Mission Control.
BUS service is a first-class mode, not the residual.
Safe street to school, pedestrian-first.
Pedestrian crossings audited under the Road Safety Programme; blackspots auto-flag.
Speed-limited zones around schools; AI-monitored enforcement; automatic ticketing from CCTV footage.
Footpath defects raised on JANATA → City Asset Registry → Works Corps SLA.
Golden-hour trauma care if the worst happens — the 112 line is part of the same architecture.
Public toilet within walking distance.
Public Toilet Network plan published — minimum coverage per ward, accessibility built into the design.
Five Amenities Flagship anchors the public realm: toilet, water, shade, seating, signage at every transit node.
Streetlight outages auto-raise within 24 hours; SLA published; Open Ledger pays on verified repair.
The Lake + Watershed Authority means walkable lake-side recreation, not encroached lake-beds.
Raise once, watch it close.
Defect raised on JANATA with one photo + location — pothole, broken streetlight, overflowing drain, missing footpath tile.
Goes straight to the City Asset Registry; SLA clock starts; Works Corps district unit responds.
Milestone evidence (before, in-progress, after) publishes on the Open Ledger.
SLA breached? Standard Escalation Ladder fires: ward officer → city commissioner → Grievance Justice Authority.
Foundations in 100 days. Digital Twin in 5 years. Maintained cities for the next 50.
The Cities 2.0 commitments are sequenced — surface first (100 days), structural second (10 years), digital backbone running through both.
- Day 0–100 Deep Clean active in 4 largest cities
- City Asset Registry pilot in 5 wards per city
- Mobility Authority constituted (interim chair named in 30 days)
- Public Toilet Network plan published per city
- Karnataka Digital Twin pilot live in pilot wards
- Ward-level SLA dashboards live for top 12 services
- Lake + Watershed Authority operational
- Road Safety Programme Phase 1 — pedestrian-first redesign of 100 km of arterials
- Karnataka Digital Twin coverage for all tier-1 + tier-2 cities
- Structural Rebuild Phase 1 complete in 4 largest cities
- Mobility Authority unified ticketing live across modes
- Five Amenities Flagship at every transit node in tier-1 cities
- 100% CCTV on every public street with civil-liberties rails operational
- All 8 flagship programmes statewide
- Road deaths halved against baseline
- Maintain-step SLAs binding across every department
- Maintained cities across Karnataka — zero blackspots, working amenities, transparent civic spend
- Karnataka Digital Twin export model published under open licence
- Citizen-rated facility quality at or above audit benchmarks
- Maintenance discipline embedded in cadre training, not in a manifesto
Six numbers we publish every quarter.
Full set in Vol III App A. Each KPI has a published baseline, Year-1 target, Year-5 target — and where relevant, a Year-10 commitment.
Why Cities 2.0 can't quietly be reversed.
Cities 2.0 lives or dies on maintenance discipline. Six statutory mechanisms keep it alive across elections.
Maintain step binding by law
The Karnataka Municipal Maintenance Act ties capital expenditure approval to an audited maintenance plan. New construction cannot start while existing assets are in published disrepair.
State-owned 3D record
The Karnataka Digital Twin is state-owned and published under open licence. A future government cannot quietly sell the data, lose the record, or replace it with a vendor-locked alternative.
30-day retention, judicial warrant
Civil-liberties rails on CCTV — 30-day rolling retention cap, extended only on a case-file flag, judicial warrant for identified access, KSSL-anchored access log, Independent Audit Board oversight — are in the enabling Act, not in policy.
Independent statutory body
Lake + Watershed Authority has a fixed-term retired-judiciary chair + civil-society members. Lake-bed encroachment requires Authority approval; encroachment without it is a criminal offence.
Every contract, every defect
Every ward SLA, every defect raised, every milestone, every payment publishes on the Open Ledger. The maintenance promise is verifiable, not rhetorical.
Operators bid against the plan
The Mobility Authority owns the route plan as a statutory function. Operators (public + private) bid for routes — they cannot capture the planning function.
The spine runs through every sector.
Cities are where most sector chapters meet street level. Each link is intentional.
Ask the manifesto anything about Cities 2.0.
The TPM bot answers from the manifesto itself — cited to Volume, Chapter, and Section. Works in Kannada and English.