bangalore poor Archives

Food packets being distributed at Indira Canteens to the poor and needy in Ward 91, Shivajinagar, and Ward 18, Ramakrishna Temple. Pic: Twitter handle of BBMP Mayor Goutham Kumar

Here’s how you can help your community during the lockdown in under 5 minutes

April 16, 2020 News Desk

Citizen Matters and Wipro Foundation are jointly conducting a survey to collect data on the services available to vulnerable communities during the lockdown. Read on to find the survey form and more details.

All you want to know about Indira Canteens

August 22, 2017 Navya P K

Count-down tickers and CCTV cameras will be used for monitoring Indira canteens, but BBMP Health Department officials will still have a major role in the daily functioning of Indira canteens. Here is how the system will work.

Former Ejipura EWS residents’ lives worse after eviction: Report

July 31, 2017 News Desk

A report explains how eviction has impacted the lives of people evicted from Ejipura EWS project. While they spend more on daily lives, their income has decreased, says the report.

When micro-finance and self help groups make things worse for poor in Bengaluru

October 26, 2015 Navya P K

How effective are micro-finance institutions in helping the poor in Bengaluru deal with their crises? Do self help groups really help? What is the downside?

Here’s why bank loans aren’t meant for Bengaluru’s poor

October 12, 2015 Navya P K

Poor in Bengaluru trapped in the vicious circle of money-lending are unable to get bank loans. Structurally the poor are designed to be left out of the banking system, as banks cannot determine either their ability or intent to repay loans.

Bengaluru’s slum dwellers: trapped, bankrupt and poor forever

October 5, 2015 Navya P K

While most of us don’t understand why poorest of the poor in the society remain so for decades, here is a reality check that reveals the darker side of the story: an atrocious circle of borrowing, spending and borrowing again, to make ends meet, and remaining poor forever.