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Governance

City administration, infrastructure, urban resilience, citizen participation and urban planning. We track the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, suburban municipalities and parastatal agencies like Water Supply and Sewerage Board, ESCOMs etc.

BAF's Townhall event poster
Governance

Elections round the corner, join this discussion on what parties are saying

March 10, 2023 News Desk

A campaign to help member residents of BAF become aware, ready and proactively participate in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly Elections.

Metro construction underway in Bengaluru
Governance

BMLTA contention: Lack of participatory planning

March 1, 2023 Pragathi Ravi

The BMLTA bill has been criticised for going against the 74th amendment act and not mentioning the Metropolitan Planning Committee.

Citizens waiting to get vaccinated at K Narayanapura Primary Health Centre.
Governance

Bengaluru to get namma clinics, super-speciality hospitals, but no doctors and nurses

February 28, 2023 Bhanu Sridharan

The budget estimates show no spending on nurses and other health workers from 2020-22. And only Rs 1.5 lakhs has been estimated for training in 2022-23.

Governance

Budgetary allocations: Focused spending through active civic participation

February 27, 2023 Pragathi Ravi

The state government holds the reins of the city’s budget. But the vision of the 74th amendment is that the third tier of government, which is the BBMP council, should be in charge.

Entrance to Vidhana Soudha metro station
Governance

Explainer: The many noble objectives of BMLTA to solve Bengaluru’s mobility woes

February 20, 2023 Pragathi Ravi

The Authority will prepare a Traffic Management Plan every year that will specify a detailed traffic flow plan for road networks and motorised traffic

Verification by BBMP officials.
Governance

Final but not foolproof: Errors continue to appear in electoral rolls

January 20, 2023 Bhanu Sridharan

Commander PG Bhat, a voter reforms activist, says most of the errors could be corrected if the Election Commission simply rectified their software.

The Polling officer administering indelible ink on the finger of a woman voter at a polling booth in PSBB School, Chennai Central Constituency, Tamil Nadu during the 5th phase of General Election-2009 on May 13, 2009.
Governance

Illegal voter data collection: Frontline workers of election management

December 22, 2022 Bhanu Sridharan

Lists of BLOs, their supervisors, and the EROs published on the website of CEO-Karnataka did not match the latest lists published by the BBMP.

Indira Canteen in Ward 94, Gandhinagar
Governance

5-rupee breakfast, 10-rupee lunch: How Indira canteens are managing despite slashed budget

December 14, 2022 Sherin Sunny

Indira Canteens, started as a scheme of the erstwhile Congress government to provide low-cost, quality meals for the poor, are now mired in politics.

Rural polling station in Bengaluru. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rural_polling_station_in_Bangalore,_2009.jpg
Governance

Illegal voter data collection: How can we protect our privacy?

December 12, 2022 Bhanu Sridharan

Activists suggest that citizens should familiarise themselves not only with the voter verification process, but also the officers in charge.

Voters waiting for their turn outside a booth in Malleshwaram
Governance

Illegal voter data collection: Does it really matter?

December 9, 2022 Bhanu Sridharan

Prior to collection of personal data, the purpose for which the data is collected and its planned use need to be disclosed to the people.

RWA members and officials
Governance

No one can deny your right to attend your ward committee meeting

November 10, 2022 Srinivas Alavilli

The Ward Committee is the only place where citizens can meet all the officials and the Corporator of the ward in person to address local issues.

A 2019 photo of a ward committee meeting in Shanthi Nagar
Governance

Public event: Bengaluru Ward Samiti Balaga Samaavesha

October 15, 2022 News Desk

Bengaluru has 1.4 crore people and even if a thousand citizens work consistently on ward committees, a lot of positive changes will happen locally.

Bengaluru outer ring road near K R puram
Governance

Is an ELCITA model possible for ORR’s dense 17-km stretch?

October 13, 2022 Pragathi Ravi

The ORRCA and NASSCOM have presented a proposal to the ITBT Ministry seeking a separate municipal zone with private-public model for urban governance.

BBMP Building
Governance

Audit report: BBMP, other Urban Local Bodies powerless and cash-strapped

October 11, 2022 E P Nivedita

ULBs, of which the Mayor is the head, are powerless. The Mayor’s short tenure further prevents him/her from making any meaningful contribution.

Urban slum dwellers gather to collect relief kits at Whitefield, Bengaluru
Governance

An unequal monsoon: The impact of the floods on Whitefield’s poor settlements

October 7, 2022 Anshul Rai Sharma

The authorities addressed the grievances of IT companies, but largely ignored the plight of the poor settlements, who were the worst affected.

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