Articles by Ashwin Mahesh

BBMP, BDA, BESCOM, BWSSB, and other organisations should stop the practice of accepting deposits and payments from developers on behalf of home owners. Instead, they should set up a system by which the home owners

The long-awaited Metropolitan Planning Committee draft notification is out. What does this lack? Here’s an opinion.

In the second write up in the series on the state of the city, Ashwin Mahesh writes about the positive and negative aspects related to Bengaluru’s governance.

With the new land acquisition rules in place, acquiring land isn’t going to be easy. Instead, Bengaluru can copy the Ahmadabad model for public projects.

BBMP alone cannot solve garbage crisis. It’s high time we, the people of Bangalore, got into the act. After all it is we who produce the garbage!

While the actual amount required to construct the Peripheral Ring Road is around 650 crores, the Bangalore Development Authority is planning a mega project of 4500 crores, where land and money get wasted.

Growing community participation in the management of lakes of Bangalore is the best thing happening these days.

Dr Ashwin Mahesh writes to the Chief Minister regarding the ongoing G category sites issue. He will be meeting him in the next few days to make a personal appeal to take immediate remedial steps.

The great cities in the world are remembering that ‘citizenship’ is at the heart of their plans for the future.

While more footpaths need to be developed around Metro stations, the real estate madness needs to be reduced. A higher Floor Area Ratio of 4.0 is being proposed for properties within 150 meters of all stations.

Immigration across state borders is the hot topic now. Why aren’t starkly different opinions voiced by opposing political parties on several other issues. Like for example, Akrama Sakrama.

Now that we have another BBMP council election, it may be worth asking why urban middle class does not turn up to vote?