Articles by Rahul

Namma Bengaluru Foundation hosted its flagship initiative – ‘the 9th Namma Bengaluru Awards’ (NBA) in Bengaluru today. The awards, which aims to honour the ‘real heroes’ of Bengaluru, recognized 6 extraordinary Bengalureans for their unparalleled contribution towards making the city better. Since 2009, the jury members which comprises of leading Bengalureans from all walks of life, select awardees in fair and transparent manner. The winner’s names are kept confidential and is revealed only on the day of the event. In the past, IAS, IPS, IFS and officials in all levels of administration have been honoured in Government Official of the…

Namma Bengaluru Foundation today launched the 9th edition of its flagship initiative – ‘Namma Bengaluru Awards 2017’ at a press conference held at Century Club. NBA aims at recognizing, honouring and celebrating the real heroes, who are determined towards Reclaiming Bengaluru. These awards truly are the city’s way of saying ‘Thank You’ to its Real heroes. Present at the occasion were, famed Sandalwood actress Shraddha Srinath and previous NBA winners. Bengaluru has witnessed a steady rise in citizen participation over the last couple of years and we take pride in such active Bengalureans, who have taken keen interest in the…

United Bengaluru in association with Let’s Be The Change (LBTC) under the leadership of MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar, is launching ‘Mega Cleanathon’. Responding to a letter from the MP, various organizations, NGOS, RWAs, Citizen Activists will be joining this fight and as a process to clean Bengaluru, the kick-start of the Mega Cleanathon will be with cleaning garbage and lakes in Bengaluru on October 2nd, 2017 across Bengaluru (in about 72 wards). These Spots will be cleaned by the volunteers, followed by painting of walls in their respective areas.  Beautiful paintings will encourage citizens to keep the area clean. City based…

Pic courtesy: Namma Bengaluru Foundation Namma Bengaluru Foundation hosted its flagship initiative – ‘Namma Bengaluru Awards’ (NBA) in Bengaluru today. NBA aims to recognizing, honouring and celebrating the efforts of Bengalureans for their unparalleled contributions towards the city, identified and honoured 6 ‘Real’ heroes of Bengaluru. Presided by Hon’ble Justice Shivraj Patil as the Chief guest and Smt. Thara Anooradha, National Award recipient and a politician as the Brand Ambassador, the evening saw the winners of the Eighth edition awarded in the following categories: - Jagannatha Rao for Government Official of the Year - Geetha Menon for Citizen Individual of…