The Draft Revised Master Plan (RMP) 2031 for Bengaluru is out. How do we go about giving suggestions or objecting to specific points? What to look for?
Five rings and 26 radials to create a network of major arterial roads. Mass transport corridors. Multi-pronged strategy of creation of land bank and affordable housing. The RMP-2031 has many proposals that will shape Bengaluru in future.
What happens when residential layouts are built on rajakaluves or lake beds? Water flows where it wants to, and thoughtless development takes its toll.
Development of yet another layout on Bengaluru outskirts is an environmental and urban planning disaster in the making, but it could still be mitigated if authorities care to listen.
In an open letter to the Chief Minister, Executive Trustee of CIVIC Kathyayini Chamaraj points out why the planning process being followed for the city goes grossly against the 74th Constitutional Amendment and what needs to be corrected for the exercise to have an impact.
An informal citizen meeting explored the possibilities of a proactive engagement with planning/governance of Bengaluru, in view of preparation of revised master plan for the city.
The BBMP’s inaction against Orion Mall and two other high profile encroachers has attracted a contempt notice from the High Court. Will the state finally have to take a call on the issue?
Could systemic public engagement prevent imbroglios of the kind created by the Bengaluru steel flyover proposal? What steps and caveats would be necessary for that?
It was a mix of lessons in social justice, equality, sustainability, citizen involvement in civic issues and politics of development in cities, not limited to Bengaluru, in addition to the culmination of the symbolic no-vote collection drive.
