While some pourakarmikas received this monthly allowance every alternate month since July 2022, some are completely unaware of its existence. A hardship allowance of Rs 2000 for pourakarmikas was announced in the Karnataka 2022-23 budget speech.The financial assistance was supposed to start from July, along with the monthly salary of the pourakarmikas. However, pourakarmikas in […]
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Hoardings were banned in 2018 because they were considered an eyesore. The idea was to help clean up Bengaluru. Hoardings, flexes, and banners can be seen all over the city, despite them being prohibited by the Outdoor Signage and Public Messaging Bylaws 2018. Advertising in public spaces was banned to beautify Bengaluru. The Bruhat Bengaluru […]
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Pedestrians prefer walking on roads instead of navigating broken and inconvenient footpaths. People take the road instead of walking on broken footpaths on both conventional and Tender (Specifications for Urban Road Execution) S.U.R.E. footpaths. Tender SURE infrastructure is designed to avoid road cutting and major maintenance. Shobha, a 64-year-old pedestrian walking on Jayanagar’s 27th cross, […]
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Pourakarmikas who registered themselves with the ABHA portal will get a health insurance of Rs 5 lakhs The contractual Pourakarmikas will now have access to the government health policy. The data from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Public Health Department show out of 15,600 Pourakarmikas who work on contract and are not permanent employees, […]
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Road potholes in Bengaluru to be filled and erased with eco-friendly measures. The Karnataka Government has plans to improve road conditions by filling the road potholes with plastic-based bitumen. N. Vijay Kumar, Chief Engineer, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) said, “Since the road accidents are increasing, we are not only planning to fill the potholes with […]
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Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) strictly follows the mandate of wearing masks in public places. BMRCL is the only transport service to follow Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) mandate of wearing masks in public places. BBMP, since June, has made masks mandatory in places like railway stations, bus stands, hospitals, schools, colleges and other […]
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Karnataka Rashtra Samiti, a new party is all set to run in the upcoming BBMP elections with social media campaigning as their strategy. Karnataka Rashtra Samiti (KRS), will campaign mainly online when they contest the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) elections that are likely to be conducted by December 31, 2022. Mr. Ravi Krishna Reddy, […]
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Vendors of the Cox Town market have been waiting for more than 20 years for a permanent marketplace. Meanwhile, they continue business in roadside sheds. The Cox Town market complex that was constructed in 2020 on Madhavraya Mudaliar Road (MM road) still awaits opening and allotment of shops to vendors. After being temporarily shifted to […]
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A room of 600 square feet for anganwadis is still a dream left unfulfilled. Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is not constructing new anganwadis due to land scarcity and this is increasing stress on the existing small and congested rooms. Ruchita, an anganwadi worker, said, “Around 20 children visit the anganwadi on a daily basis […]
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LPG auto drivers are hesitant about buying e-autos as they are expensive and give less mileage. High maintenance costs of electric auto rickshaws are keeping Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) auto drivers at bay. Apart from their high buying and maintenance cost, e-autos take four to five hours to charge completely at an Electric Vehicle (EV) […]
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