April, 2017 Citizen Matters, Bengaluru

Bengaluru Matters Radio Show – Episode 11

April 29, 2017 Radio Active 90.4MHz

What we need the most: empowered women corporators in Bengaluru

April 26, 2017 Shree D N

51% of BBMP corporators are women. But something is seriously wrong. What’s that? What can be done about it?

A community garden flourishes in this IT campus

April 26, 2017 Lalithamba B V

Wipro’s new initiative engages employees in growing vegetables in their corporate campus.

HC tells BBMP to set up Ward Committees within a month, but will they be effective?

April 25, 2017 Meera K

Being a part of a Ward Committee is a great way to engage formally with the system to make the change happen.

HSR’s composting plant back to square one, no solution in sight

April 24, 2017 Akshatha M

Karnataka Composting Development Corporation (KCDC) is back to its old status, and the deadlock continues. Akshatha M traces a month’s journey of the plant, through her interactions with concerned key parties.

Bengaluru Matters Radio Show – Episode 10

April 22, 2017 Radio Active 90.4MHz

Bengaluru was once considered to be a garden city. There were trees on every road, and a lot of them had to be sacrificed to make way for road-widening and flyovers. But gone are the days when people just sat and watched when trees were marked for cutting – the new age activists are doing many things to save the trees – one of them is tree-mapping. By mapping the trees and marking the species, these teams hope to raise awareness as well as collect good data on the trees in Bengaluru. One such team interacts with Akshatha.

Hoardings destroying trees

April 20, 2017 News Desk

Vijay Nishanth, a tree enthusiast fom Bengaluru, talks about the increasing incidents of trees being cut down to give visibility for hoardings.

Why did BBMP and Urban Development Department apologise to Green court?

April 20, 2017 Shree D N

Karnataka government and BBMP say sorry to NGT for being presumptive about NGT’s authority. But what about the conclusion – is the buffer zone rule applicable retrospectively? Should building sanctions – those given recently or are in progress, in the new buffer zone regulations be cancelled? The confusion has only increased.

A people’s school for quality education takes shape in Whitefield

April 19, 2017 Abhilash M

What happens when the cost of education skyrockets and people become unhappy with the quality of education? They start their own school!

A reality check inside Bengaluru’s one and only composting plant

April 18, 2017 Akshatha M

This composting plant in Bengaluru is supposed to be model that will show how large scale composting can be done in cities. But what is really going on? A reality check.

If composting plant doesn’t work, close it down, demand HSR residents

April 17, 2017 Akshatha M

Citizens speak out on the government-run composting plant in HSR Layout – what is happening, why people are worried about it.

Bengaluru Matters Radio Show – Episode 9

April 15, 2017 Radio Active 90.4MHz

What does it take to travel to all the countries in the world? How about going on a cross-continental expedition in a Tata Nano? And how exciting it is to cycle across the country from Jammu to Kanyakumari? An incredible bunch of travelers from Bengaluru achieved all of these, breaking the barriers – listen to this episode to track their journeys!

Month: April 2017