Civic Archives | Citizen Matters, Bengaluru

Singanayakanahalli Lake

Bengaluru Buzz: Plan to axe 6,316 trees | Petrol price over Rs 100 | CCCs shutting down

June 19, 2021 News Desk

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delivery drivers during lockdown

Bengaluru Buzz: Partial lockdown | Prep for third wave | Power tariff up … and more

June 12, 2021 News Desk

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Bengaluru Buzz: Lockdown till 14th | II PUC exams cancelled | Property tax discount extension … and more

June 5, 2021 News Desk

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Importance of participatory design in tactical urbanism

June 3, 2021 Swathi K

Participatory design is a way to make community engagement real. Only when the community feels ownership of their public spaces can tactical intervention serve its purpose.

Bengaluru Buzz: Testing sewage for coronavirus | Vaccine drive improves | Cases decline, not fatalities … and more

May 29, 2021 News Desk

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Report exhumes plight of workers who bury/cremate Bengaluru’s dead

May 28, 2021 News Desk

The city owes much, in terms of dignity, pay and benefits, to crematorium and burial ground workers, especially in the pandemic, the report recommends.

BBMP Chief Commissioner Gaurav Gupta inspecting the Vidyapeeta PHC's COVID Care and Triaging Centre.

Bengaluru Buzz: High mortality rate | Black fungus worry | Vaccines for 18+… and more

May 22, 2021 News Desk

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How citizen action changed Kudlu crematorium

May 16, 2021 Lalithamba Vishwanathaiah, Ramakant Nargund, Venkatesh H S, Kamesh Rastogi and Vijaya Kumar

Kudlu crematorium was dirty and ill-maintained, with a damaged chimney that fanned smoke into the neighbourhood … until the community intervened.

Bengaluru Buzz: One million cases | Acute vaccine shortage | Triaging patient care … and more

May 15, 2021 News Desk

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These COVID relief initiatives in Bengaluru need your support

May 10, 2021 News Desk

Here’s a list of organisations providing COVID relief, for those who wish to help with donations.

Hospital beds

Bengaluru Buzz: Bed scam ‘communalised’ | Medical students to COVID frontline | SC upholds State’s Oxygen requirement… and more

May 8, 2021 News Desk

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domestic worker; victim of domestic violence from alcoholic husband, during lockdown

“Manage without domestic help, break COVID chain”: BNP Secretary

May 4, 2021 Srikanth Narasimhan

This personal appeal beseeches residents of apartment complexes to respect restrictions on the entry of domestic help, cooks, drivers and visitors.

Bengaluru Buzz: No to cremations at landfill | Vaccine wait longer for 18+ | Search for beds, oxygen … and more

May 1, 2021 News Desk

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Bengaluru Buzz: Movement restrictions | Crematoriums overburdened | Bus strike called off … and more

April 24, 2021 News Desk

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Bengaluru Buzz: Covid deaths spike | Shortage of hospital beds | Karaga procession cancelled … and more

April 17, 2021 News Desk

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