PRESS RELEASE

We wish to introduce ourselves under the aegis of the "Save Sankey Road and Park Forum". We comprise of people from all walks of life - doctors, advocates, civil servants, software engineers, business persons, house wives and students and so on. Sankey Park Walkers Association, Sadashivanagar Residents Welfare Association, Lower Palace Orchards Residents Welfare Association, Malleshwaram Swabhimana Initiative, Hasiru Usiru, Sadashivnagar Working Professionals Group and Gayatridevi Park Residents Welfare Association came under one roof for the cause of preserving the existing green cover of Sankey Road. It is under threat from unscientifically planned road widening.Mission- To engage in a constructive…

Bangalore People's Forum has recently come up with a manifesto for the consideration of voters and candidates participating in elections in BBMP electiions 2010. The forum consists of the following organisations.  ActionAid, Alternate Law Forum, Centre for Education and documentation, CIVIC, Community Health Cell, Concerned for Working Children, Environment Support Group (Environment, Social Justice and Governance Initiatives), Garment and Textile Workers Union, Hasiru Usiru, Hengasara Hakkina Sangha, Janasahyog, Janarogya Andholan Karnataka (PHM-KA), Kilikili, Maraa, Nightingales Medical Trust, Sahajeeran, Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled, Sangama, Save Bangalore Committee, Slum Jagattu, The Avenue Road Traders Associations, Vimochana Introduction All efforts of the…

Koramangala Smartvote is a campaign aimed at increasing voter turnout for BBMP elections and helping residents make an informed choice.  Koramangala Smart Vote Volunteers have been conducting a door to door campaign since November 2009, to reach out to residents in Koramangala Ward 151. Apart from this mass outreach campaigns have been conducted at Christ College, Jyothi Nivas College,  Rotary Club of Koramangala, Ladies Clubs in Koramangala, CPWD quarters, Koramangala Club and at other social gatherings. Door to door campaign will be continued till around elections time. Additionally mass outreach events are being planned at Koramangala mosque and other social…

Batti Bandh Bengaluru, scheduled for February 13th 2010, will call on Bangaloreans to switch off all their electrical appliances for one hour, from 7 to 8PM, and in doing so, 'unplug' not just for the day but also through their lifestyles in the fight against climate change.Batti Bandh Bengaluru is part of an annual nationwide series of events that was started in 2007 by Keith Menon in Mumbai. The build-up to Batti Bandh Bengaluru will include programs such as flash plays, flash performances of music and singing, flash performances of dance, hula hooping, djembe performances, posters in schools and colleges,…

“The Lost Lakes of Bangalore” is a project to document Bengaluru’s many tanks and lakes. The organisers are Arghyam, a non-profit foundation that works towards wise water management. They run the India Water Portal, an online resource base on all water issues in India. A special website  has been set up for the purpose of this contest and to mark World Water Day. Entries must be submitted by March 15th as a CD with the movie in a standard file format, sent to India Water Portal Lost Lakes Contest599 12th Main Road, HAL 2nd Stage, IndiranagarPhone: 080-41698941/42 The contest is…

One of the most important projects of Rotary International is to eradicate polio from the face of the earth. In 1985, Rotary International launched 'Polio Plus', a time bound commitment to eradicate polio. The Polio Plus is one of the most ambitious humanitarian undertakings ever undertaken by a private entity. On the immunisation day, in India more than 1,00,000 Rotary volunteers and their families  join hands with Government and all concerned to facilitate administering polio drops to the children below five years, signaling the largest public health event ever in the world.Philanthropists worldwide including Microsoft Founder Bill Gates are taking…

In a significant first, The Embassy of Sweden, Delhi, in association with RV QuizCorp, RVCE presents "Sweden India Nobel Memorial Quiz 2009" on November 3rd. The renowned engineering college has joined hands with The Embassy of Sweden to bring to college students a quiz on Alfred Nobel and The Nobel Prize. Conducted to commemorate the Nobel Week in Sweden, this is one of the many events being organised by the Embassy, in India. This national level quiz is especially exciting as the all-India winners get to go on an all expenses-paid trip to Sweden to visit major Swedish companies. The…

We look at them, we dont care a damn. We drive past them, we dont wait for them to cross; We pay them, but we dont treat them equally.This is the pourakarmikas Working for us everyday, Regardless of their health, nor the weather that day.They clean our surroundings, When they don’t clean theirs.To see them smiling, a rare occasion To make them smile, even more a rarity But the cost, nothing at all Doing this, makes a world of a difference...                                                    Raunak Dembla                                                    St. Joseph's Indian High School, Gopalkrishna, Engineer-in-Chief, BBMP, today flagged off the week-long ‘Pourakarmika Thank…

SIBM Bangalore organised ‘Colloquium-09’, a symposium on “The changed world and risk implications” for organisations on 10th September 2009. The event was saw speakers such as Dr. Jyoti Navare, Head of Department (Marketing and Enterprise), Middlesex University Business School, Sambasivan, COO, Deutsche Bank, Kalpana Balasubramanian, Director, KPMG and Dr. Harkant Mankad, Former Dean Emeritus, Russell Square International College, Mumbai. Prof. Pankaj Gupta, the Director of SIBM, welcomed the guests. Dignitaries at the Colloquium held at SIBM Bangalore. Prof. Gupta shared an anecdote about animals sensing tsunami earlier than their human counterparts by keeping their feet on the ground. The simple…

A Coalition of various Civil Society Organizations in Bangalore has been organizing a Press Conference on the last Thursday of every month since May 2009 in Bangalore.  The purpose of this press conference is to bring before the press, the success stories of the use of Right to Information Act, 2005 in bringing justice to the public.We here by present you TWO RTI success stories in today’s press conference.Case-1Dr.Jagadish Sanganal is working as Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Veterinary College, Bangalore. Prior to this Dr.Jagadish was working as Veterinary Officer in the Department of Animal Husbandary, Government of Karnataka during…