I Change Indira Nagar

I Change Indira Nagar (ICIN) is a Federation of Residents Welfare Associations (RWAs) in Indiranagar namely; Indiranagar 1st Stage League, Indiranagar 2nd Stage League, DECORA, BM Kaval Indiranagar 1st Stage RWA, Social Amenities Association HAL 2nd Stage, HAL 2nd Stage Residents Welfare Association, The HAL 3rd Stage Taxpayer’s & Residents Association, The HAL 2nd Stage Civic Amenities & Cultural Association Indiranagar, to address common civic issues faced by the residents of Indira Nagar. Civic issues could range from Garbage to Traffic, from Pollution to Parking & from Commercialisation of residential areas to Safety & illegal cutting down of trees. The ultimate aim of ICIN is to make Indira Nagar, a neighbourhood where all of us can live peacefully, with access to good civic infrastructure and services.
Praveen S is a resident of Indiranagar.

Indiranagar objects to BDA complex redevelopment plan

August 14, 2018 News Desk

Subject: Our objections to the redevelopment plan of the BDA Complex, Indiranagar, Bengaluru It has come to our notice through media reports that the BDA Complex in Indiranagar will soon undergo demolition and redevelopment. Tenders

Join hands to stop commercialising of residential areas in Bengaluru

February 22, 2017 S R Tejas

Pic: Praful Residents of Bengaluru might have noticed in the media, that recently the BBMP has commenced issuing notices to many commercial/non-residential establishments in residential areas to shut shop. Whilst this may come across to

Park encroachment: Indiranagar residents demand punishment for landgrabbers

January 11, 2017 Akshai Mallappa

Defence Colony Cooperative Housing Society Ltd (DCCHSL) & Defence Colony Residents Association (DECORA) JOINT BRIEFING 1. The Defence Colony Cooperative Housing Society Ltd (DCCHSL) was formed by serving and retired Defence Officers. In July 1964,

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‘Open Streets’ event not in line with Indiranagar residents’ agenda

December 22, 2016 Aruna Newton

An evening scene from Indiranagar. Bengaluru city has been mushrooming over the years with little regard for any form of Town Planning and Governance. The fallout of this rapid growth is witnessed most acutely in

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Why Indiranagar residents don’t want an indoor stadium

July 12, 2016 Praveen S

In November 2015, Indirangar residents had taken to streets against the plans to convert a playground into a cricket pitch. Now there’s a plan for the same ground to be converted into an indoor stadium.

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Indira Nagar celebrates Environment Day

June 5, 2016 Poornima Kannan

Trees as we all know are of great importance for the whole human fraternity as well as managing the natural balance in the environment. However, we human beings are regularly cutting down the trees for

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Residents of Ward 80 meet with Subodh Yadav to address the garbage menace

May 12, 2016 Sneha Nandihal

Monday, May 9th brought us a surprise – the Commissioner for SWM Bangalore, Subodh Yadav was coming to Ward 80 for an interaction with RWA’s, residents and civic officials. I say surprise, because we were

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Spotted: 27 species of trees

April 25, 2016 Poornima Kannan

Spurred by the recent tree cutting incident in the vicinity of the neighbourhood, a tree walk was organised on the morning of April 23rd by the BM Residents Welfare Association in Indira Nagar 1st Stage,

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Walk among the trees of Indiranagar

April 19, 2016 Praveen S

If you love nature, like walking among trees and flowers, and want to know more about our green heritage, this is the walk for you. If you know absolutely nothing about trees or nature, you

When a tree falls, a community bands together

April 6, 2016 News Desk

On 31st March 2016, a 40-year-old African Tuilip tree in Indiranagar 1st stage, home to hundreds of parakteets and scores of nests nurturing young ones, was brutally felled by the BBMP. The reason: it was

RWAs say no to commercialisation on residential streets

February 17, 2016 Praveen S

Residents Welfare Associations across Indira Nagar have been working towards getting rid of the commercial enterprises in the residential streets of their neighbourhood. Members of the RWAs in Indira Nagar 1st Stage and 2nd Stage

Rs 50,000 to clear garbage from an empty plot?

February 15, 2016 Praveen S

The empty plot became a garbage dump over the years. Pic: Praveen S During the end of November 2015, when the corporator and the ward engineer began cleaning up an vacant plot (plot number 60) located

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Protest to reclaim public playground on Nov 28th

November 27, 2015 Sneha Nandihal

The ‘I Change Indiranagar’ initiative has been formed by the residents to raise a collective voice against various issues plaguing Indiranagar, issues that have converted Indiranagar from a peaceful neighbourhood to an uncontrolled illegal commercial

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Public playground in Indira Nagar converted to private cricket camp?

November 26, 2015 Sneha Nandihal

BBMP Council on 25 February 2015, suo moto, passed a resolution, wherein Startling Line Sports were granted permission ONLY to develop a cricket pitch in the BBMP playground located in Indiranagar 1st Stage, at their expense;

An idle plot is the devil’s dump yard!

November 21, 2015 Praveen S

Can’t find a clean public toilet? Consider using a vacant plot. Civic sense? What on earth is that? Vacant plots in our city are considered as nothing but garbage dump yards. And if they are

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