Very few e-toilets in the city are working. They had been installed as part of the Swacch Bharat Abhiyan in 2014 at a cost of about Rs. 5 lakh per toilet. Bangalore: Of the 229 e-toilets in the city, only 60 are working. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is planning to call for tenders […]
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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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BSWML has issued a tender for new tippers and a new primary segregation method in Bengaluru. With the approval of the Urban Development Department (UDD), Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML) has issued a tender to upgrade the primary waste collection of Bengaluru by introducing 5000 new auto tippers. The advanced technology will bring a […]
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Bank officials say that banks too many coins result in them exceeding their minimum balance. BENGALURU: Nagraj Yadav sits at his tea shack, looking despondently at the little cardboard box filled with Rs 10 coins, amounting to about Rs. 2000. He does not know what to do with them. Depositing them in a bank is […]
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