Wish you a very happy new year from all of us at Citizen Matters – Oorvani Foundation!
It was a sad start to the new year, with the reports of molestation in several parts of Bengaluru. What do you think about the debate around molestation incidents? We would like to hear from you!
This week’s highlight
NICE road land acquisition saga
Framers in Gonipura, Thippur and Sigehalli villages grow ragi, maize, dal, peanuts and veggies in their fertile agriculture land. Pic: Akshatha M
Bengaluru-Mysuru Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) was supposed to connect two cities seamlessly. NICE Road, the part that forms half of the Peripheral Ring Road, is just a part of the corridor. Land was notified for NICE Road and township projects 19 years ago. What’s up now? Read: 19 years on, farmers in limbo as govt yet to act on land notified for NICE.
Every Mayor’s agenda is to clean-up K R Market. G Padmavathi’s challenge is no mean task as thisphoto essay by Nikhil R Reddy shows.
Sorrows of Bengaluru’s lakes
We all know that Bellandur and Varthur lakes are in bad shape. But how bad? This photo featureshows the reality.
Starting troubles
Bengaluru has been ranked the second fastest growing start-up ecosystem in the world, but owners of innovative businesses in the city find the journey far from smooth. Read: Hurdles for innovative start-ups in Bengaluru.
Blog posts
Dangal in single screen
The experience of watching the latest popular Bollywood movie Dangal in a single screen in Bengaluru. Read: Wrestling the box office.
Ritvik also writes about the boring writing style in text books and how they can be made innovative and interesting. Read: ‘Subjective’ education
For the love of books
A resident of Malleswaram writes her experience of starting a book club in her area along with her friends. Radhika explains in this blogposthow Malleshwaram Book Club has helped them rediscover the lost passion.
Treating trees right
Blogger Deepa Mohan writes how we nails signs to our trees, loop cables over them and harm the trees. How do we treat our trees?
On January 8th, third Kaikondrahalli festival will be celebrated. Day long events have been planned for lake and environment enthusiasts. Read more about it here.
This week’s news in Bengaluru
The BBMP which is often criticised for not taking action against illegal advertisement hoardings in the city, has submitted before the High Court that it has so far removed 1,841 unauthorised hoardings. It has collected an amount of Rs 29.59 crore as advertisement tax from agencies.
The Bengaluru police have arrested four persons in connection with the sexual assault of a woman on new year’s day in Kammanahalli.
The BBMP is coming up with a software to help track waste disposal of households through the formal door-to-door waste collection system. This according to the Palike officials will be done by tying up the new software with GIS system that has mapped 19 lakh properties in Bengaluru.
With the authorities delaying the work on rejuvenating Bellandur lake, the High Court has asked the State government to submit in detail about the measures taken to prevent sewage from entering into the lake.
The BBMP has decided to change the door-to-door waste collection schedule. Accordingly, the civic workers will pick up wet waste everyday and dry waste will be collected twice a week.
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A useful compiler for residents of Zone 8, comprised of areas such as Anna Nagar and Shenoy Nagar as they get set to vote on February 19th.
Zone Snapshot: Wards- 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108 Population- 757273 (2013) Polling Stations- 572 To locate your polling station – https://tnsec.tn.nic.in/tn_election_urban2021/find_your_polling_station.php To locate your ward and zone – https://chennaicorporation.gov.in/gcc/citizen-details/location-service/find_zone.jsp Issues in the Zone: In January of 2021, the waste collection in 11 out of 15 zones were handed over to private companies. Zone 8, was one of the zones where a waste collection contract was handed to Ramky Enviro Engineers (a private envrionmetal services company). The company absorbed around a 100 workers, and the rest (who were employed under the…
A useful compiler for residents of Zone 13, comprised of areas such as Adyar, Thiruvanmiyur and Velachery, as they get set to vote on February 19th.
Zone snapshot Wards -170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182 Population - 490767 (2013) Number of polling stations - 471 To locate your polling station - https://tnsec.tn.nic.in/tn_election_urban2021/find_your_polling_station.php To locate your ward and zone - https://chennaicorporation.gov.in/gcc/citizen-details/location-service/find_zone.jsp Issues in the zone: Traffic congestion at Madhya Kailash Junction is a key issue that affects commuters. Those looking to travel to the airport or southern parts of the city face long hours of commute during peak hours in the area due to traffic jams. Overflowing sewage and old sewage pipes are an issue in Adyar. The old pipes leak…
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