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Civic

Bengaluru Buzz: Trader licences revoked, SPV project pushed and 1000 transformers uprooted

July 28, 2018 News Desk

Your chance to catch up on news that matters: Here’s a quick wrap of some important headlines from your city over the week gone by.

Environment

Hundreds of crores spent on garbage, what does BBMP have to show?

April 16, 2015 Josephine Joseph

The city’s garbage woes did not appear overnight. What led to this tipping point? Citizen Matters looks back over the past 15 years and the current imbroglio in a new in-depth series. Is there an end in sight?

Infrastructure

Now, making arrangement for waste processing facility is compulsory for developers!

August 9, 2014 Nikita Malusare

Apart from making waste management facilities compulsory in new layouts, the High Court also hinted that builders can help BBMP as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility.

Environment

HC asks BBMP to send 300 tonnes of wet waste to Mavallipura

July 18, 2014 Shree D N

Petitioners found out that many contractors had no PAN and Service Tax numbers. The Court opined that the corporators who did not want to solve public problems should be voted out.

Infrastructure

BBMP lists two-wheelers, buses among garbage trucks, pays them!

July 15, 2014 Nikita Malusare

CAG dissects the loopholes in the way BBMP manages waste, that caused Mandur and Mavallipura crises. Non-existent GPS system, fake bills, conflict of interest, fund diversion, non-utilisation, poor planning — BBMP suffers from all possible problems.

Governance

Govt on backfoot as Saldanha pummels and Raghunandan hits straight

July 12, 2014 Shree D N

If Urban Development Minister Vinay Kumar Sorake keeps his promise, rules and laws would be amended to give more power to citizens in urban governance.

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Environment

HC to review ward committees’ role in managing waste

June 27, 2014 Nikita Malusare

Effective waste management is the responsibility of ward committees. But are ward committee meetings happening in Bengaluru? High Court decides to look into it.

Governance

From Mandur with a message – no more dumping

December 23, 2012 Shamala Kittane Subramanyan

Bangalore sends 500 trucks of garbage to Mandur a day. So fifty Bangaloreans walked from Mandur on Saturday to say, stop the dumping and manage waste scientifically.

Civic

Segregation at source is the key

September 16, 2012 Mark Rasquinha

The common grouse on people’s lips today is – look at those stinking mounds of garbage. What is the BBMP doing about clearing them? But have we stepped back and understood that the garbage on the road is ours and we need to learn to segregate it?


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