Jayanagar

Cycling is set to receive a boost with a competition being announced this week. Officials in the meantime are working on making Jayanagar friendly for cyclists through a special pilot project.

Here’s a quick look at what Bengaluru witnessed this 2010. A special section for South Bangalore too.

Girls from Carmel Convent school in Jayanagar make up most of Karnataka Volleyball team and won the nationals in first week of December. Sports help us concentrate on academics better. say the students

BESCOM is just more “public utility service” that harasses the public, in a city aiming to be a “global metropolis”. Worse, unscheduled shut-downs are the height of administrative arrogance and incompetence.

A Jayanagar resident has been burdened with sky-high water charges over the last three years due to suspected BWSSB meter tampering.

Local news roundup from South Bangalore this week: meet this East End resident who is enthusiastic about craftwork; Shoe thieves are active, while police And there are plans to make Jayanagar a no-plastic zone.

New building to come up to house library and government offices; Trees planted at rejuvenated Puttenahalli Lake.

On 23d July, BBMP commissioned the fencing of around 15 acres of Byrasandra lake land in Jayanagar that was wrongly ‘sold’ in 2005 by a bank for debt recovery. Some encroachments are yet to be removed.

Jayanagar General Hospital, one of the biggest but most underused hospitals in the city, is to be rejuvenated soon. A slew of changes including more junior doctors and hospital management systems have been proposed.

Residents get together and convene a forum for civic issues; Drain work starts in Jayanagar.

This fortnight’s neighbourhood news roundup – Beware of fake police on the streets; Hole in the wall at Jayanagar bus-stand.

Meet R Sunder Rajan, who after having worked in IT industry for 15 years, has started a chain of libraries called Just Books in Namma Bengaluru.