After the 2016 floods, BBMP started the demolition drive to clear drain encroachments, and followed it with a plan to remodel Bengaluru’s stormwater drains. Why is this still not complete?
Some ideas on how to solve the difficulties in voter registration—from using post offices to Bangalore One centres—making it as painless as Aadhaar process often is.
With changed world, easy availability of information and non-skilled human resources, Employment Exchanges have a greater void to fill, in skill development, not directly in providing jobs.
Employment Exchanges are now helping private companies find people looking for employment. But there is no data that is given back to them on the actual number of people employed.
Once Employment Exchanges were the most sought after centres for unemployed youth to get jobs. In an era of internet and job portals, what’s happening to them?
Six months after application, some apartment residents haven’t got EPIC numbers or voter id cards in Whitefield. The Million Voter Rising campaign is trying to overcome such hurdles, as it works to get more people onto the rolls.
Families were evicted from the housing quarters with a promise of new homes in the same place. Ever since, footpath has become their dwelling. What has the life been like, for the evicted?
Public-private partnership does not allow land transfer to developers, but the BBMP has promised a sale in the MoU signed, and the developer is banking on it. Where will this lead to?
This is the story of how thousands of low income families are at the mercy of ill-planned government projects; Nothing illustrates better that housing for urban poor is a mess.
‘Connect with Nature’ is the theme for this World Environment Day. This is a list of environment day programmes you can attend in Bengaluru over next few days.
A team of officials in BBMP is ready to handle any rain problems, 24X7, with a temporary control room of 64 emergency numbers for each wards. What other steps has the BBMP undertaken to face rains this year?
