Civic | Citizen Matters

Where are the ‘smart city’ planners?

March 14, 2017 Anirban Choudhury

Smart cities need a vision. But perhaps more importantly, they need people who are able to draft that and take it to fruition.

Bengaluru looks underground in attempt to avoid water Doomsday

February 25, 2017 Patralekha Chatterjee, Citiscope

Innovative Participatory Aquifer Mapping project seeks to educate residents about precious groundwater and also involve them in sharing information about borewells in their communities.

If this is who we are, Swachh Bharat can only be a dream!

February 22, 2017 Sudha Narasimhachar

A journey to the heart of India and back leaves the writer distraught over the lack of civic awareness among educated, urban citizens and the implications for our much vaunted Clean India Mission.

Can Bengaluru teach other cities to say ‘no’ to bad planning?

November 2, 2016 Satarupa Sen Bhattacharya

The recent large-scale protests against a proposed steel flyover in Bengaluru has been in the news nationally. Could this large scale mobilisation of people in the cause of sustainable urban mobility be a trend-setter?

From Chennai to Pune, citizens wage lonely battles to save wetlands

August 29, 2016 Navya P K

As urban wetlands increasingly fall prey to vested interests, citizen activists organise themselves to save the environment, often ‘despite’ the government rather than because of it.