Civic

Towards Nagar Swaraj – are you ready, citizen of Bengaluru?

December 15, 2018 Umesh Babu P G

Come on fellow citizens, let’s all unite for making our city a better place to live in. Now its time for us to look toward Nagara Swaraj or Nagar Sabha!

An event to feature waste management innovations and solutions

November 30, 2018 Admin

Bengaluru division of Social Venture Partnerships is organising a focused one-day event to leverage the learnings of some civic innovators, RWA’s, associations, federations, large campuses and other stakeholders in the field of waste management. Experts

Mayor asks ward committees to meet every month; here’s what went on backstage

November 1, 2018 Tara Krishnaswamy

Nothing will change in India, what is the point in protesting? WRONG. Let me tell you a success story from today. Around August of last year, #CitizensForBengaluru, my favourite (and my own 🙂) citizens movement

CfB appeals to Mayor to hold ward committee meetings starting Rajyotsava

October 17, 2018 Srinivas Alavilli

Two years ago on this day 8000 Bengalureans formed a human chain saying #SteelFlyoverBeda. The unprecedented public opposition forced the government to scrap the controversial 6.7 km ₹2000 crore steel flyover. CfB was born out

Needed in Bengaluru: Bicycle networks that don’t follow road networks

September 25, 2018 Ashwin Mahesh

I was at the launch of the Cycle to Work campaign along with the Mayor and the Bicycle Mayor last week. It was very nice to see many cyclists come together, hopeful of renewed efforts

Citizens are the solution for any problem in any city

September 25, 2018 Ashwin Mahesh

For several years now, I’ve had one theme around which I felt we could push for change – “rather than try to solve problems, we should focus on increasing the number of problem solving people”.

There’s a railway station at Bellandur, and you may not even know it!

September 4, 2018 Srinivas Alavilli

This station is in bad condition, but could help a lot of commuters if infrastructure is improved.

Five reasons to get aboard the Rail Yatra and say #ModaluTrainBeku !

August 31, 2018 Tara Krishnaswamy

Why should you demand trains in Bengaluru? 1. Building the Suburban train network is the least disruptive on Bengaluru. It won’t affect the existing roads with diversions and bottlenecks while tracks are expanded, more trains

What does a delayed suburban train cost Bengaluru?

August 3, 2018 Srinivas Alavilli

‘Opportunity cost’ is defined as “cost of a missed opportunity”. We may never know the opportunity cost of missing out on suburban train in Bengaluru. The amazing video about Mumbai local aka suburban train is

Why can’t the government be left alone? Here’s why that’s not an option

August 2, 2018 Tara Krishnaswamy

“Why don’t you leave the government alone? Let them do what they want. Why interfere?” Engaging with public sentiment on the proposed elevated corridors in Bangalore recently, some people asked such questions. Let *them* do

Chennai’s road signs – a long and confusing story

June 29, 2018 Raghukumar Choodamani

Chennai’s road signs are always changing. At considerable expense of our money. For a country which is ridden with poverty, corruption, terrorism, communal hatred and several such pressing issues, changing the street names or the quality of the sign boards are definitely not the issues which need to be dealt with on a priority basis