bial Citizen Matters, Bengaluru

Solar sees some success in Bengaluru, even as BESCOM fails to meet solar rooftop targets

November 20, 2019 Revathi Siva Kumar

Organisations like BIAL and Bangalore University are now meeting a large part of their energy needs from solar power. But not enough citizens have applied for rooftop solar installation under BESCOM schemes

Bengaluru Buzz: BBMP to restore 630 km of roads | Action against water bill defaulters | PlasticBeku for BIAL roads

September 29, 2019 News Desk

After continued protests from Bengalureans, the BBMP has drawn up an action plan to restore 630 km of roads that had been dug up to lay pipelines. Read more on what else happened in the city over the past week, in our roundup

Infrastructure

New terminal, new name: Will Int’l airport continue to shine?

December 17, 2013 Samuel Jacob

What does the new terminal mean to an average traveler? Is the Bengaluru airport utilising its capacity to the fullest?

Governance

Bengaluru, gateway to ‘Kaapi trail’

December 6, 2011 Navya P K

Number of tourists coming to the state via Bangalore has almost doubled in the last one year. This Kaapi trail is supposed to boost it further.

Infrastructure

Bangalore airport scores high on service quality

June 14, 2010 Vaishnavi Vittal

Two years into operation, Bengaluru’s greenfield airport is receiving high service ratings from passengers. The airport’s 24/7 control center is playing a crucial role in this.

Infrastructure

Sparrows at the gates, as BIA turns two

June 13, 2010 Vaishnavi Vittal

Two years into operation, the Bengaluru airport is seeing almost 10 million passengers annually. And they will soon open doors to more by expanding Terminal One.

Civic

BIAL a ‘public authority’, rules KIC

May 14, 2008 M V K Anil Kumar

Because of the government’s equity stake and a range of tax, cess and other exemptions granted to BIAL, the Karnataka Information Commission has taken the view that BIAL must respond to RTI applications.

Not by BIAL alone

May 1, 2008 News Desk

Devesh Agarwal of the Bangalore Chamber of Commerce and Industry disagrees with Albert Brunner, the CEO of Bangalore International Airport Limited on the latter’s recent interview to Citizen Matters on the airport controversy.

Commute

We can handle all the traffic : BIAL’s Brunner

April 29, 2008 Samuel Jacob

Why cannot the HAL airport coexist with the new BIAL airport? What about the steep user fees BIAL is charging? BIAL CEO Albert Brunner in an interview to Citizen Matters.