If more than 50 trees are to be axed for any project, authorities have to consult the public first, as per law. But how do authorities manage to avoid public consultations even when they axe hundreds of trees for mega projects?
The Citizens’ Action Forum completed a decade this year. It has an impressive record of committed activism, working on issues that affect a large section of the people in the city. Take a look at all that the Forum has been doing for Bengaluru and where they stand now.
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.
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 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.
