Improper implementation of Government Housing Schemes in Maski Taluk leaves Below Poverty Line (BPL) villagers stuck in a desperate situation after building pakka houses. By Yamini Chincholi More and more farmers and BPL villagers from Maski Taluk are getting stuck in a hopeless financial situation after building pakka houses with their own money and then […]
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Karnataka budget 2020 is going to be announced by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Thurday, March 05,2020. This is his seventh budget.
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Equal Opportunity Employer hotels have left out women, as Bangalore hotels record 91 percent male chefs in their kitchens. By Yamini Chincholi The sexism that associates women with cooking is trenchantly challenged by the glaring gender disparity in hotel kitchens of Bangalore. Based on Article 15 and 16, an anti-discriminatory policy was drafted in 2015 […]
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Untouchability, although a cognizable offense in India, is still practiced covertly in several households. In the city of Bangalore, not sharing utensils and other items is just another assertion of the belief that ‘one who cleans my washroom can’t cook my food’. By Yamini Chincholi Imagine that you have just mopped up the utility where […]
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Ward Committee meetings in Bengaluru have turned into grievance forums and these grievances are not even registered. Yamini Chincholi A noisy, crowded room, people talking over each other, stacks of papers and files, the ward corporator nodding along to fresh concerns, and committee members presenting their seventh draft of the same complaint. Such are the […]
Continue ReadingAt least 2,000 elderly of Bengaluru face homelessness and abandonment by their families after retirement and seek shelters or resort to begging. By Yamini Chincholi The economically deprived elderly of Bengaluru face neglect, abuse and abandonment by their families and need old age housing and care. As many as 18 million senior citizens in India […]
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Drivers and motorists break traffic rules and enter one-way roads in areas that are unmonitored to save time, thus causing holdups and jams. Yamini Chincholi In residential areas like Brooks Haven, near Subramanya Police station, Bangalore International Public School, Uttarahalli and Indiranagar, there is no monitoring of traffic violation for one-way road, CCTV cameras or […]
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The state government is yet to give compensations to farmers for crop damage during drought seasons. Yamini Chincholi | Bengaluru Farmers in Maski taluk are yet to get compensation for crop damages caused due to floods and drought from the state government, according to the Right to Fair Compensation Act, 2013. Abdul Aziz, working journalist, […]
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A number of real estate properties are lying stagnant in Bengaluru due to over-supply and legal disputes. Yamini Chincholi A number of real estate properties in Jayanagar, Sarjapur, Electronic City, Kanakpura main road and Bannerghatta main road lay unoccupied. Many apartments and properties are stagnant. Complaints are registered against properties and builders on Real Estate […]
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By Yamini Chincholi Bengaluru: State Government given orders by The High Court(HC) to procure decibel meters in the city by December 13. This was the second time such an order was issued by the court. “We don’t understand why the state government has failed to acquire noise-assessing meters,” said the HC as it handed out the […]
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