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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

Ghar wapsi of BBMP forest officials: Bengaluru’s greenery to suffer

February 4, 2015 Akshatha M

Last month the BBMP relieved CCF and six RFOs claiming that there were only four sanctioned posts. What will happen to Bengaluru’s green cover?

Understaffed, fund-starved, neglected: BBMP Forest Wing limps on!

June 24, 2014 Nikita Malusare

BBMP has a “Forest Wing” – with 18 officers for 198 wards, no travelling allowance and little budget, the cell struggles to meet expectations. And we expect it to take care of all the city’s trees!

Environment

BBMP Forest Cell continues to pay for work not done

September 18, 2013 Nikita Malusare

Crores of rupees have been spent by BBMP’s Forest Cell who is understaffed and cannot monitor the work. While the Chief of the cell doesn’t have powers, payments for old bills have continued, without ascertaining whether the work was actually done.

BBMP to take tree felling management online

July 9, 2013 Bosky Khanna

The new system will allow people to apply for tree felling as well as object to the felling. The big question is, how will the offline people come to know when an application is given for felling a tree.

Whom should I complain to, when a tree is felled

July 4, 2013 Bosky Khanna

Bangalore, the garden city, witnesses a large number of trees being felled – some legally, most illegally. Your blood boils at the sight of this, but you do not know whom to complain. Who is the right person to complain to?