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Hale kallu, hosa billu syndrome

May 14, 2017 Ashwin Mahesh

BBMP likes to create regular, small contracts. This system is informally known as ‘hale kallu, hosa billu’, and is well understood by all the stakeholders !! Take the example of shoulder drains. To begin with,

Digging up the roads….

April 23, 2017 Deepa Mohan

At least this dug up part of Bannerghatta Road mentions that natural gas pipelines are being laid. But in most places, roads are dug up without warning and with no information about why the

Understand Bengaluru’s water status – make BWSSB accountable for it

March 6, 2017 Pierre Chahine

Last October, we spoke about several instances of individual and community initiatives towards solving water problems of the city. Sewage water treatment and rainwater harvesting are tools households and communities can use for decreasing their

The plastic ban in Karnataka – a boon for animals

October 7, 2016 Sumanth Bindumadhav

Cattles die from eating plastic. While plastic may seem almost indispensable in our daily lives, we tend to remain oblivious to the harm that we cause to animals and the environment by using this material

RTI lessons: how to chase officials hiding the data

September 29, 2016 Akshatha M

The documents/ replies that I have received from various offices of BBMP in the last five months, to my RTI query on illegal hoardings, are piled up before me. Yet, they have no data that

Celebrating Ganesha Habba with the Pourakarmikas

September 6, 2016 Shilpi Sahu

Volunteers from Kasa Muktha Bellandur presented a small token of appreciation to the invisible & often neglected workforce of our society by distiributing cloth bags & sweets to the Pourkarmikas by the volunteers at various

BBMP, please don’t make a mockery of RTI!

July 3, 2016 Akshatha M

How many legal and illegal hoardings are there in Bengaluru and how to identify them? Looking for a complete location-specific data? Chances are that you will never ever get it. In the month of April,

How to get occupancy certificate within BBMP limits

May 16, 2016 Whitefield Rising

What is an Occupancy Certificate? A certificate of occupancy is a document issued by a local government agency or building department certifying a building’s compliance with applicable building codes and other laws, and indicating it to be in a

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

Hagadur and Doddanekundi wards join the campaign against plastic

May 4, 2016 Pravir Bagrodia

The morning of April 23rd saw around 25 residents of Mahadevapura Zone coming together in support of the anti-plastic ban. Volunteers of Whitefield Rising visited dozens of shops on Borewell Road, creating awareness about plastic

Yet another construction threatens to dry up Kaikondrahalli lake

April 29, 2016 Shilpi Sahu

Kaikondrahalli and Kasavanahalli lakes have been in the news for disturbing reasons lately – the rampant real estate developments in the valley zone that may lead to drying up of the downstream lakes and massive

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

The economics of roads – Part 1

January 28, 2016 Ashwin Mahesh

Vittal Mallya Road was built about five years ago. When it was built, it was proposed as a higher order of design than the roads that BBMP usually builds. The difference consists of three key

The system does work (at least it did for us)

January 22, 2016 Arvind Keerthi

Only one week after re-laying the road that leads to Ryan International School at Brookefields, the asphalt started pitting. Aggregate (jelly) started peeling, and undulations on road surface appeared. The road looked as though it

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