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Village becomes “swachh” with Rs 1.5 lakhs, cycle trolleys, bins and bags

September 3, 2015 News Desk

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

Kasa Muktha Bellandur

March 3, 2014 Shilpi Sahu

“Kasa Muktha Bellandur” campaign (earlier called Clean Bell and renamed to align with city level initiative) has taken off to a very positive start. This campaign aims to achieve responsible, end-to-end solid waste management in the

Segregation going strong at Bellandur apartments

November 5, 2013 Meera K

Last Friday, on Rajyotsava, Karnataka High Court justices N Kumar and B V Nagarathna, visited Bellandur Ward apartments Divyashree Elan and Springfields. This was part of a tour of various Solid Waste Management facilities in

Volunteer to make segregation at source happen at Konanakunte ward

September 21, 2013 Sinu Joseph

We invite volunteers to join us in making 100% segregation happen at source by empowering the garbage collectors in Konanakunte, ward no. 195. What you have to do You will begin by shadowing an existing

Empowering the garbage collectors is the first step to segregation

September 18, 2013 Sinu Joseph

Nearly 100% segregation and separate collection is now happening through the BBMP in the area covering 850 individual homes in Chunchaghatta. This transformation has been possible in just three weeks! This write up is intended

Bellandur citizens propose nominations for Ward Committee

January 17, 2013 Satheesh A

As part of the Solid Waste Management PIL, the High Court asked BBMP to setup the ward committees to help monitor SWM contracts etc. The question of ward committees came up in the case when

Who’s scared of ward committees?

January 15, 2013 Ashwin Mahesh

The ruckus over the formation of ward committees is exposing the failures of city governance in a big way, and pointing to its main cause – the exclusion of citizens from decision-making. But that’s not