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www.varthurlake.com is a citizen led initiative to safe guard and rejuvenate the Varthur lake. Seen here is a screenshot of the website.
Environment

‘varthurlake.com’, a citizen-led initiative to safeguard and rejuvenate Varthur lake

March 4, 2020 Ritu George

Varthur lake is the second-largest water body in Bengaluru. The 440-acre lake is located on the eastern periphery of the city, surrounded by villages and all the big IT companies. Over the last 20 years,

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Governance

Electricity plan for Bengaluru – a look at BESCOM’s data

March 24, 2017 Pierre Chahine

Bengaluru is almost entirely dependent on the state of Karnataka for its electricity supply; nothing wrong in with that in appearance. However, inability of the state to respond consistently to the city’s power demands coupled

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Governance

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

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Infrastructure

Fight garbage burning in your neighborhood!

March 2, 2017 Pierre Chahine

ST Layout Bed, 9am on a Tuesday. In a vacant plot of land, street sweepers gather the fallen leaves and garbage on the streets into two piles. They set them on fire and go on

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Governance

Tracking Budgets: How to track Bengaluru City Budgets

February 25, 2017 Pierre Chahine

A quick glance at the BBMP budgets of the recent past show over-estimated revenues – check them out and learn how keep track of city budgets using our Open City platform. BBMP has just set

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Deepa's Jottings

Lake Census set to begin for the second year in succession

December 12, 2016 Deepa Mohan

On Sunday, the 10th December, 2016, the Lake Census effort across the lakes(kere) of Bangalore got under way with an orientation program for those who had registered to take part as volunteers in this month-long

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Editors' Blog

Launching OpenCity.in – a data portal for Indian cities

April 13, 2016 News Desk

Oorvani Foundation and Datameet are happy to announce the launch of OpenCity.in – an urban public data portal. In cities across India, there is a lack of accessible and robust public data. Citizens often do

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Editors' Blog

Following stories at Election Special Open Data Camp!

March 22, 2014 News Desk

Data is often underestimated or ignored in public affairs, especially in the local governance space. Claims can go wrong, but data cannot lie. Data is what gives you the real picture of any given situation.


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