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The Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF) in South India was a public-private partnership (PPP) that ran from 1999 till 2004 at the direction of the Chief Minister of Karnataka. The purpose of the taskforce was to bring in business and civic leaders on a pro-bono basis to design a development agenda for the city and suggest ways in which the city's infrastructure and service delivery might be upgraded and improved according to best practice systems elsewhere.[1] The purpose of the taskforce was to build government capacity through partnership between citizens, corporates and the city's main administrative agencies – the BMP, BDA, BMTC, BWSSB, BESCOM, BSNL, and Bangalore Police. The BATF was a particularly influential task force, transcending an 'advisory role' to mobilise private resources and catalyze significant changes in the agencies with which it engaged.[2]
- ^ Manor, James (2013). "Successful Governance Reforms in Two Indian States: Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh". In Robinson, Mark (ed.). The Politics of Successful Governance Reforms. Routledge. ISBN 9781317969228.
- ^ Nilekani, Nandan (2004). BATF: A Partnership with Promise?: The Fourth Annual Public Affairs Lecture. Bangalore: Public Affairs Centre.