GENRE: Voices Archives

Webinar: Bengaluru’s wastewater is polluting the Cauvery; users too must pay true cost of water

May 10, 2022 Navya P K

Bengaluru’s untreated wastewater eventually enters the Cauvery river, which then reaches the city right back through its water supply network. A webinar looked at the problem and possible solutions.

What fixing our own roads taught us about local democracy

May 6, 2022 Arvind Keerthi

We planted trees, installed drain covers, fixed water leaks, and filled potholes. Yes, it is time for localities to self-organise and self-fund themselves.

Concretising open parks — this is not the development people want or need

April 20, 2022 Krishna Panyam

Fed up with mere platitudes and no action, Malleswaram residents launch yet another protest against constant, uncoordinated digging of their streets.

Interview Amit Basole: “PDS the most effective safety net, cash transfers the worst”

April 15, 2022 Sravasti Datta

The survey found that occupationally, people in the service industry were much more likely to lose work compared to home-based workers.

Gottigere ward walkability report, a citizen’s survey and perspective

April 12, 2022 Poongothai Paramasivam

The survey was an eyeopener. Post the survey, we requested BBMP officials and traffic police to remove the obstacles and encroachments.

Don’t spend more than you actually earn, new Act teaches BBMP fiscal discipline

March 30, 2022 Sravasti Datta

Interview with Aditi Raja, formerAccountant General of West Bengal on implications of bringing BBMP under the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 2003

Green commuters: “I see no reason why I should not cycle to work ” – Karthik

March 24, 2022 Pradeep Karuturi

With cities choking with air pollution, it is time to support environmentally sustainable commute to workplaces. ‘Cycle2work” is one such initiative.

When an ambulance driver stopped for dinner and never reached the patient, who died later

March 18, 2022 E P Nivedita and Pavan Kumar Reddy

The audit report highlights issues like shortage of pilots and Emergency Medical Technicians and use of ambulances for non-emergency purposes.

A citizens’ wish list on what the BBMP’s budget should focus on this year

March 13, 2022 Navya P K

Citizen Matters spoke to some Bengalureans for their take on how the 2022-2023 BBMP budget allocations should be made for the city. This is what they said.

How citizens can use audit reports to be effective watchdogs

March 2, 2022 E P Nivedita and Pavan Kumar Reddy

Audit reports help understand governments’ performance and delivery, so you as a citizen can then hold your elected reps and officials accountable!

Bengaluru’s sex workers: old work spaces are all gone, the city now considers them ‘undesirables’

February 28, 2022 Anant Kamath and Neethi P

An entire ecology around street-based sex work has slowly disintegrated, pushing many of them into further invisibility and vulnerability

Better mobility design can encourage the use of public transport, cycling and walking

February 23, 2022 Dattatreya T Devare

Traffic congestion can be reduced with improved infrastructure for public transport and non-motorised transport, particularly cycling and walking.

Fix public transport to reduce car, bike trips

February 22, 2022 Dattatreya T Devare

The best way to motivate citizens to shun personal, private vehicles is to provide credible and affordable public transport alternatives

Need parking fees, congestion tax to regulate private vehicles

February 21, 2022 Dattatreya T Devare

What is required is rigorous and effective implementation of a set of measures that includes incentives and disincentives to reduce use of private vehicles

Beautification in isolation: Questions on the facelift of K-100 Rajakaluve

February 16, 2022 Abhijit Waghre

The beautification project does not follow the Karnataka High Court and NGT orders on the protection of Bangalore’s lakes and major storm water drains