Posts : Cleanliness

Overflowing toilets - a serious hygiene issue at Kadugodi Bus Station.

Ramesh Menon - 7-OCT-2014

 
On Saturday, 4th October 2014, a few of us came out with a plan to clean up the Kadugodi Pedestrian Over Bridge. It is almost a year since this structure became a reality.

Effective handling of storm water

psaram42 - 23-MAY-2013

 

Effective handling of storm water requires good roads without dirt. Normal dirt can be

How to make Bangalore more clean - How to educate people to be clean?

Vasanth - 23-MAR-2013

Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India only in IT competing with other cities in the world. This is only in IT and not in any other terms such as Infrastructure, Governance and above all Cleanliness. 

One thing is the Government Authorities such as BBMP do not maintain the city clean, due to the kind of people who are ruling in BBMP.

India - Dirtiest of All !

Naveen - 18-MAR-2010

54% of India or 638 million people do not have access to toilets & defecate in the open !

This is over 55% of the total for all such people in the world - we certainly hold the dubious distinction of outranking all others by a huge margin :) - In second place is Indonesia, with a paltry 58 million.

The report also states that 18% of urban India indulge in this practice (Mumbai, Kolkata & Chennai might account for a large part of this). The percentage for rural India is as high as 69%.

Figures for some 'top' countries are as follows:

BBMP guns for film posters, graffiti

vinod_shankar - 7-JUL-2009

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBM

There are no dustbins in my locality...damn!

shekhar_mittal - 22-MAR-2009

7am in the morning i just happen to go for a walk and all I end up feeling is that this city which I have fallen in love with over the past 2 years is 1 huge trash can! Depressed at that thought and thinking what we at praja can do about it...it just happens that 1 gentleman throws an empty cigarette box on the road right in front of me.

Clearing mud and sand accumulated on the road

srikanthml - 13-FEB-2009

Hi, In addition to the numerous problems we already have on road and road works in Bangalore. I wanted to bring attention to the huge amount of mud and sand scattered on all roads in Bangalore. It may seem the lowest in the priority of BBMP to clean it up. But clearly there are many issues related to this. Some of them i have observed

Road Dust In Bangalore

Ravi_D - 16-OCT-2008

During late 80's and early 90's, I used to love and look forward to the mornings-after-rainy-nights in Bangalore. Pollution was a problem then too. But such mornings with crisp, clean, clear air was something else.