Let's do it in our back-yard (LDIIOBY)!

murali772 - 2-JUL-2012

When it comes to the latest Garbage City tag, there was indeed a PIL filed. Fighting the negative tag was Neeraj Mishra, a resident of Indiranagar. Two years ago, Neeraj filed a PIL in the High Court of Karnataka when he found that garbage near his house had rented the place for free and the BBMP was letting it flourish.

BBMP (and BTP) and inclusive development

s_yajaman - 22-JUN-2012

One look at the typical projects happening in Bangalore and it is quite clear that for the BBMP the city is a thoroughfare meant to enable cars to zip across the city with minimal inconvenience.  There always seems to be enough funds for flyovers, underpasses, road widening and asphalting.

When the courts lose the plot whom do we go to?

s_yajaman - 19-JUN-2012

Here is an article from todays DH.  http://www.deccanherald.com/content/257985/high-court-says-road-widening.html

Bus stand locations, easy walking for bus change @ Marathahalli

silkboard - 2-MAY-2012

We have been making very slow progress on putting together this LAMP. Why not do an ideation exercise as part of the project online. For the LAMP, we talked of working on designated entry points to the local area, as in Whitefield. Take Marathahalli.

Hoarding menace - BBMP's helplessness?

silkboard - 5-MAR-2012

Recently, before leaving the city, an expat left behind this 'hoarding' as his thank you note to Bengaluru. Humorous indeed, but to us and BBMP, this should be a hurtful mockery of the way things are out of control on our roads.

Driving School Scam - BBMP

idontspam - 25-FEB-2012

While most of the driving schools charge Rs 2,500-Rs 3,000 per candidate for training, BBMP had agreed to pay Rs 3,800 per candidate from these six schools. “Each school had produced documents claiming that they had trained 70 to 80 candidates and received lakhs as fees.

KR Market collateral or mortgage?!

srinidhi - 2-FEB-2012

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike has offerred the KR Market as collateral to the Rs 500-crore loan it ha

Another wide footpath sacrificed

murali772 - 20-JAN-2012

These pictures are of the 5th cross, Vth block, Koramangala, the one-way road leading up to the Canara Bank junction. The road has over the years become almost totally commercial, with any number of eateries, shops and what have you, setting up there, making it an almost one-stop destination for all kinds of products and services for a large section of the Koramangala population.

Defacing of public spaces

murali772 - 5-JAN-2012

BBMP Technical Vigilance cell Engineer Humiliated for exposing a (possible)scam

Bengloorappa - 1-DEC-2011

The BBMP Technical Vigilance Cell under the Commisioner(TVCC) Engg., who brought to the fore, the possibility of a scam perpetrated using fake bills, has allegedly been humiliated in a BBMP council meeting - questioned for his inability to execute projects that were assigned to him midway including the notorious Kadirenahalli Underpass, The Tagore Circle Underpass(which was never needed) and so