Ragpickers living near Vrishabhavathi River have not been recognized by BBMP yet. Bengaluru: Ragpickers living in tents near Vrishabhavathi River have lost hope in getting recognized by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). Krishna, a rag picker, said that BBMP officials visited them, took pictures and videos pertaining to their problems. However, no help reached them. This […]
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The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in its 2021-22 budget announced that they are planning to build 67 new public toilets in the city. Bengaluru: Shabeer Ahmed, an auto driver, travelled to two areas in the city looking for a public toilet. “We don’t have many, that is why you can’t find any easily,” he […]
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For almost a year leftover vegetable waste has been fouling up the Kalasipalayam vegetable market area. Bengaluru: Rotten vegetable waste is not being cleaned up by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) for the past few months in front of the Motinagar slum next to the Kalasipalayam vegetable market. People from the slum have complained to […]
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Out of the 41,403 vendors who have applied to the PM Svanidhi scheme, only 8522 have received the amount. They say that they get pushed around from one office to another. Bengaluru: For the past two months, Munilaxmi has been going to the State Bank of India (SBI) office in Kumara Park every other day. […]
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Debris waste, a major cause of pollution, has only one under-utilized Construction and Development (C&D) waste recycling plant in the city. Bengaluru: If you’re on the Ulsoor Road stretch, within a couple of minutes a thin layer of dust will cover your phone like a screen guard. This thin layer, which you would casually wipe […]
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The three percent cess collected by the BBMP is not paid entirely to the Central Relief Committee that houses beggars in the city. Bengaluru: Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is yet to pay Rs 118 crore to the Central Relief Committee (CRC) that takes care of beggars in the city. According to a CRC official, […]
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Libraries have received only 10 percent of the amount owed to them. Bengaluru: Torn pages and low stock of required books are adding to the pile of problems that public libraries are facing in Bengaluru. They need the money to fix the books and buy new ones but have no access to the funds that […]
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Hoardings—both legal and illegal—still dot the city skyline, while the new advertising bylaws are yet to come into effect. Bengaluru: The pandemic may be subsiding, but the real disease plaguing the city—hoardings and distracting advertisements—may not go away anytime soon. “They are not even different ads, just the same ones over and over again,” said […]
Continue ReadingThe lake has been moved between multiple city departments, with no progress on development of parks or cleaning. The last time work was done to clean or develop the lake was by the forest department in 2005. Bangalore: Opposite the Kengeri bus stop on Mysore road sits what remains of Kengeri Lake or Doddakere, covered […]
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Dog sterilization and vaccination is still to meet the minimum target. Rajarajeshwari Nagar: Animal Birth Control (ABC) and Anti Rabies Vaccine (ARV) programmes has covered 12 percent of the total population of the dogs in Rajarajeshwari Nagar zone (RR Nagar zone), from when it started in September 2020. Rajarajeshwari Nagar zone has the highest number […]
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