Pourakarmikas or sanitation workers in Bangalore do not receive hardship allowance even after more than a year since its announcement. While many pourakarmikas in the city are unaware of the existence of a hardship allowance, those aware complain they do not receive it every month. In the previous year’s budget speech, former Chief Minister, Basavaraj […]
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Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India Nitin Gadkari inaugurated South Asia’s biggest construction equipment fare. Development of infrastructure is most important in developing economies stated Union Minister, Nitin Gadkari in his speech. He said, “the only possible way to make India the third largest economy is to make better infrastructure, the focus […]
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Till December first week of this year 27,000 National Common Mobility Cards cards have been issued. National Common Mobility Cards (NCMC) users are reporting that most metro station scanners cannot read the cards. Satyam Gupta, a daily commuter at the M G Road metro station complained, “Almost every time, whenever I try scanning the NCMC […]
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Dropout rates in Bangalore’s undergraduate engineering colleges in the current academic year have gone up to seven percent from two to three previously. About seven undergraduate students per year in every branch of engineering are leaving mid-way throught their four-year course. Dr Sudharsha Reddy, the regional director of Visvesvarya Technological Univesity (VTU) said that this […]
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More visitors for the garden fair will encourage the physically disabled community, said APD officials. The number of visitors to the Garden Fair at the Association of People with Disability (APD) has come down after Covid -19. Ganesh Hegde Director of Environment Horticulture APD said, “The number of visitors has reduced from 2,000 to 700 […]
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The long standing demand to fix potholes and expand roads resounded at Namma Raste, a discussion forum on road infrastructure facilitated by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) from Dec. 8 to Dec. 12. Several citizens of Bangalore took to the BBMP initiative, Namma Raste as a platform to voice their concerns about bad road […]
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Recognition of the needs of sex workers by the state and awareness among people about their plight is important for their upliftment, say experts. While unionisation of sex workers will help them assert their rights, it still remains a legal challenge, said advocate B. T. Venkatesh, Founder, Reach Law. He was speaking at the national […]
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The government promised to provide extra lands with better infrastructure facility to train the physically disabled people for gardening. To empower the physically disabled people the Directorate of Empowerment of Differently Abled and Senior Citizen department promised to provide its support to Association of People with Disability (APD) in training physically disabled people in gardening. […]
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Non-pharmacological interventions like animal assisted therapy are useful for adults with ASD. The mental health sector in the country lacks intervention and therapy programmes for adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Though early intervention in autistic children is given importance but adult care is often neglected. Hemangi Narvekar, a research scholar at the Department of Psychology, […]
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The members of the group said that the communist government of Kerala provides no basic facilities to Hindu devotees. ‘Anti-Hindu’ Kerala government has no concern for Hindu pilgrim centres, said the right-wing fringe group, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS). It said that pilgrims heading to Sabarimala lack access to essential infrastructure. Mohan Gowda, the spokesperson of […]
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