RTI

What’s Bangalore talking about? Catch some of the most important headlines from your city in our weekly news wrap here.

You voted them as your representative, in 2009. If you haven’t already, it’s time to review their work. Here’s what Bangalore South MP Ananth Kumar did, using his MPLAD funds.

A senior citizen and his family lost their home to the NICE road. This is the story of his relentless fight for justice.

Over two years, this RTI activist in Basavanagudi has tried to ensure BBMP follows due process while laying roads, even petitioning the Lokayukta. Check what BBMP is supposed to do.

A local initiative led by an RTI activist in Koramangala shows how citizen’s participation in governance can ensure better roads and civic infrastructure in general.

The joy of bringing a change keeps me on. Despite my digging up dirt, whenever I go to a government office, people still respect me a lot.

The heat generated by citizens’ action contesting BDA’s Koramangala signal free corridor project is as much as the heat to come from the traffic snarls when four junctions here are dug up soon.

As 11 December approaches, leading public figures in the city and elsewhere in the country added their voices of support to Saaku (‘enough’), the rally against corruption, and encouraged citizens to join them in the events this week.

After BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah ordered last week that khatas be issued to the Sachidananda Nagar residents, they finally got it in the middle of the night, after a lot of high drama!

A physical attack by a city government official has only made the residents of Panduranganagar, off Bannerghatta Road, more determined to keep fighting against illegal constructions.

Even as the state government pushed the Sakrama bill to regularise the massive pile up of bye-law violations in Bengaluru, BBMP has systematically encouraged illegal buildings only further.

A coalition of NGOs provide case studies of a couple of success stories, proving RTI’s benefits in Bengaluru.