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Bevinmara Colony – Before and After. Pic: Team FORCE-GW Bevinmara Colony is a small village in Whitefield surrounded by high-rise apartments and high-end villa communities. The village has about 300 households, 6 shops, 3 temples

Ganga Madappa, Staff Reporter and Community Manager at Citizen Matters, writes: Here’s a side of the Ulsoor lake that not too many people notice. To the left of the kalyani at the lake, is a

In May 2014, the residents of Casa Ansal, disgusted with the garbage piling up on their side walls, had called on the help of the Ugly Indian, and had this clean-up drive that I had

There’s a road very close to my home, which thousands of commuters use every day. As roads go by, it is nothing special–not extra wide or four-laned or nicely tarred, even. It’s just a linking

Join your fellow citizens of India at “India Clean Sweep, 8 June 2014” at Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake. ‘India Clean Sweep’ is an initiative by Chennai Trekking Club, to save our waters and other natural spaces

The residents of Casa Ansal, in J P Nagar 3rd Phase on Bannerghatta Road, have been suffering from the shifting of the trash area from the Mini-Forest area to their southern wall, where it was

Bellandur Buzz… April 9th 2014, Issue 7 This is a fortnightly newsletter shared by the citizen group bellandur-forum@googlegroups.com Visit to Rainbow Drive: RWH tour About 50 residents and estate managers from apartments and layouts  around

Bangalore is supposedly a bin-free city. An unofficial garbage dump, across Jagriti Theatre in Whitefield, with a slum behind and shops in the neighbourhood. A wine shop next door. At night, the lighting for the

God knows Whitefield needs help. Therefore it may have been a wise move to have the next spot fix outside the historic Memorial Church. Dell brought an enthusiastic team out while Brigade sponsored the civil

Not so early in the morning, I look down from my third floor apartment. There’s a lady sweeping the dead-end road. I know her, though I don’t know her name. She wears the official BBMP

People from very different walks of life gathered on a sidewalk today. The common thread linking them all was “dignity” and an inexplicable oneness. A cleaner street and gifts for people were mere by products.

I went on a 3 hour trip with a few industry leaders as well as BBMP officials yesterday, looking at some of the ‘trail’ of waste in the city. The idea was to get buy-in