Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority

Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority

Abbreviation	BMRDA
Formation	1985
Type	Metropolitan Region Development Authority
Purpose	Planning
Headquarters	Bangalore
Location	Bangalore
Official language	Kannada
Commissioner	K P Mohanaraj
Website	bmrda.karnataka.gov.in

Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority, officially Bengaluru Metropolitan Region Development Authority (BMRDA), is an autonomous body created by the Government of Karnataka under the BMRDA Act 1985 for the purpose of planning, co-ordinating and supervising the proper and orderly development of the areas within the Bangalore Metropolitan Region (BMR) which comprises Bangalore Urban district, Bangalore Rural district and Ramanagara District. Since 2007, BMRDA covers an area of 8,005 km² (3,091 sq mi), the second largest metropolitan area in India, after the Amaravati Metropolitan Region. Bangalore has also emerged as India's fifth largest metropolitan city by population (also the third largest city proper by population). Unlike the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), the BMRDA does not have the power to acquire land.

The total Metropolitan Region has a population of 1,17,00,000