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Let’s know more about the ray of hope called ward committee

November 26, 2018 Srinivas Alavilli

We are all frustrated about lack of urban governance – garbage, pot holes, flooding, dengue, traffic, we bear the brunt of it all, day in and day out. Almost every week there is a protest

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

#BekuBedaSathe: What next?

October 31, 2017 Tara Krishnaswamy

We saw a jostling, zealous crowd #ForTheSakeofBengaluru on Oct 15th, Sunday at Freedom Park. A numerous and highly diverse people cast their demands on the Beku Beda wall, and ballot boxes and brought demands as

BekuBeda Santhe – the ayes and nays to be back with the city

September 28, 2017 Manasi Paresh Kumar

The “Beku Beda Santhe” will serve as a platform for citizens from across Bengaluru to express what they want for their area and city (ಬೆೇಕು) and what they do not want for their area and city (ಬೆೇಡ.) Diverse set of citizens groups will come together to make the event as inclusive and vibrant as the city itself.

Citizens demand bus bhagya with Chief Minister

March 14, 2017 Srinivas Alavilli

The Bengaluru Bus Prayanikara Vedike and Citizens for Bengaluru met the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday, demanding Bus Bhagya in the upcoming State Budget. He listened to our demands on ‘Halve the Fares and Double the

Let the BDA not plan Bengaluru, say citizens

February 1, 2017 Srinivas Alavilli

Citizens for Bengaluru (CfB) members Prakash Belawadi, Naresh Narasimhan, Srinivas Alavilli, Tara Krishnaswamy, Priya Chetty Rajagopal, Deepti Sudhindra along with Leo Saldanha (ESG) addressed the media on recent developments with respect to the steel flyover

From British to BDA, city planning was a top down sham – let’s change it!

January 23, 2017 Sandeep Anirudhan

Bengaluru is in the process of preparing yet another master plan. What does the process involve and what does it aim to achieve? To understand this, let us go back to the time when Kempegowda

Steel Flyover on hold: Citizens for Bengaluru (CfB) force BDA to step back

November 4, 2016 Tara Krishnaswamy

BDA, under the determined pressure of the citizens’ movement against its steel flyover project, filed an affidavit before the Karnataka High Court on November 3, 2016, that it won’t commence the project for the moment.