City: Bengaluru

  Bengaluru this week January 8th 2015     CITIZEN MATTERS Bangalore's own interactive newsmagazine Speak up, it's your city!      Wish you a very happy new year! We’re just about a week into 2015 and we hope that it has been going great so far. In the months ahead, Citizen Matters will continue to bring you stories of substance, on issues that matter to you and the community at large. We however will need your feedback and support to do so. If you would like to support our independent coverage on the important issues of our time, do consider…

With less than four months left for the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) council term to end, there are all indications of the election process witnessing yet another quandary on the lines of last BBMP election. While the Congress councillors are hell-bent on the restructuring of BBMP to take place prior to the polls, the ruling BJP councillors are in no mood to wait for the restructuring to happen. It could be recalled that the Palike was without Council for three years from 2006 to 2009 and the election was held in 2010, only after the High Court intervention. This…

It is the beginning of a long weekend. You leave your office at 7 pm in Electronics City with a bid to catch the 9 pm train at KR Puram railway station. The cab picks you up right on time and you zip on the elevated highway to reach silk board in 15 minutes. However, there is a huge pile up at Silk Board and you are forced to spend 20 minutes at this junction. It is 7.35 pm and you start getting worried as to whether you would be able to reach the station on time. Moreover, the train…

Organising a plant/tree/insects walk in the Arekere Reserve Forest was as interesting as taking a group for a birding or wildlife trail... In fact, it was more so, indeed, because a very knowledgeable and enthusisastic group came all the way from R T Nagar! It was a walk where all of us pitched in with what we knew.. and it wasn't even a walk, it was a slow inching forward, looking around and down, instead of the "up" of a birding trail. The Forest Department (the blue/green boards are theirs) has gone to town with the slogans, nailing them to…

Website of the BBMP Restructuring Committee features the progress made by the Committee. A three-member Government Committee formed in order to work out the modalities of dividing Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has been also entrusted the task of restructuring BBMP. As Ravichandar, one of the members of the BBMP restructuring committee puts it, the Committee aims to structure it in such a way that: quality of life improves in Bengaluru for decades to come quality services are accessed by all citizens; accountability of elected representatives and service providers Bengaluru features among top 50 global cities on liveability The Committee also…

A press note from Bangalore Traffic Police details the plan for new year eve on MG Road and nearby areas. Here are the excerpts: A large number of people, motorists as well as pedestrians, traditionally throng MG Road, Brigade Road, Residency Road, St.Marks Road and Church Street on the New Year’s Eve. In the interest of public safety and convenience it is necessary to restrict and regulate the movement of vehicular traffic and parking of vehicles on MG Road, Brigade Road, Church Street, St Marks Road, Rest House road and Residency road on the night intervening between 31/12/2014 and 02/01/2015.…

“Sekaaaaaaarrr ... Go to the market and get me kottamalli for four annas,” amma called. Kottamalli is coriander, you know. Living near the Yediyur lake, the Lake Titicaca (so called because of all the caca that used to flow into it whenever it rained—I kid you not, that was a limnologist's, if that's the word I want, dream lake!) of Jayanagar, Bangalore, had many advantages. It's all geography, hon. We were right by the main road on which the various vegetable vendors from the south of Bangalore carried their fresh produce from the previous afternoon to the Krishna Rajendra Market—a.k.a.…

Blast site on Church Street, Bangalore. Pic: Press Trust of India. Just before new year 2015 celebrations begin, Bengaluru saw a real low intensity blast on Sunday night. Three people were injured in the explosion that took place around 8.30 pm, in front of Coconut Grove Restaurant on Church Street, near MG Road. A woman later succumbed to injuries in hospital. Bhavani, a 38-year-old woman from Chennai who was in Bengaluru with her kids for the Christmas vacation, died at Mallya Hospital. She suffered head injury and severe blood loss. Kartik, who is a relative of Bhavani and a student…

Way back, on 31st August 2010, the Supreme Court of India ruled that a builder/ developer/ promoter (of flats/ group housing) cannot sell open or stilt parking area (meaning uncovered or covered parking space) once the owners' society is formed, as the said space becomes a part of “common areas and facilities” of the Society.  The judgment was delivered by a bench of Justices R M Lodha and A K Patnaik in the case of Nahalchand Laloochand Pvt Ltd (a promoter from Mumbai) vs Panchali Co-operative Housing Society Ltd, subsequent to an appeal made by the former against a Mumbai…

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