Interview: “It’s not a good idea to blindly take what was done in this study and try to do it all over the place. Human behaviour is highly context specific”.
On the 12 year anniversary of Rain Water Harvesting (RWH) being made mandatory in Bengaluru, S Vishwanath and Shubha Ramachandran talk about challenges and opportunities of sustainable water supply.
In this interview, Special Commissioner Randeep D, says external resources are helping only with queuing logic and user interface of the refreshed bed allocation software.
During lockdown, people living with HIV (PLHIV) have not been able to step out and buy critical medicines and food. Many have had no work or wages either.
There has been much talk about gender-sensitisation of the police as well as procedural reforms vis-à-vis justice for rape survivors and other women victims of crime. S T Ramesh, former DGP and IGP of Karnataka Police, was a reformer within the force. Here are his thoughts on the subject.
The Bengaluru chapter of Fridays For Future (FFF), a global youth movement, holds weekly climate strikes in different parts of the city. In this edition of Citizens Live, one of its coordinators Disha A Ravi, speaks about their work
Shashi Verma, Chief Technology Officer at TFL (Transport for London) was recently in Bengaluru to discuss public transit with the government. In this chat with Citizens Live, he discusses bus lanes, smart cards, and solutions to Bengaluru’s traffic woes
There is no separate budget allocation or police personnel to manage traffic at the bus priority lane, says JCP (Traffic) B R Ravikanthe Gowda. But the department will rely on BBMP for additional manpower to monitor the lane
