Questions are now being raised as to whether Bangalore can manage its own success. ...
08:22 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Bangalore: Wipro Chairman Azim Premji has raised a stink over Bangalore's garbage crisis, that is worsening by the day, and slammed the city's civic body, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). Trash has been piling up at several places across the city for the past two months as the municipal body struggles to clear it away. Premji's criticism comes two days after the embarrassed state government was forced to take action...
01:08 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Bangalore: Trying to tackle the menace of illegal usage of flex boards and cut outs in the name of publicity, BBMP Commissioner Rajneesh Goel has tightened the grip on the zonal officers. As a result 96 criminal cases pertaining to cheap publicity have been registered against various film producers, politicians and other organisations. Time and again, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has been criticised by the High Court, civic experts...
02:25 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Bangalore: The issue of mandatory segregation of garbage at source from October 1 has been keeping the officials of BBMP on tenterhooks. Of late, many initiatives have been taken by BBMP to popularise the segregation of waste at source generating awareness among public. But, it is also creating confusion among authorities. Since September 17, all corporators, environment and health officers are being shown documentaries pertaining to segregation of waste at...
12:46 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Bangalore: The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike seems to be stonewalling a CID probe into the Rs 1,539-crore bogus bill scam, in which many officials and elected representatives are allegedly involved. The CID sleuths, who took over the probe in December 2011, are unable to make any headway as the Palike has not provided them with documents crucial for their investigation. And the CID, it seems, may not get the documents...
02:31 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Bangalore: The next time you see a pothole, instead of cursing the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), just click a photo with your smartphone and upload it to the Palikes website. Officials will fill it soon. This initiative, said to be the first of its kind, is expected to start on November 1. BBMP, in association with Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (Keonics) is developing a unique application, which...
02:53 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Bangalore: The newly appointed Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner, Rajneesh Goel's strict instructions to clear the garbage in the city and dump it in Mandur landfill has again brought the issue of landfills and the area's vulnerability to fore. Like Mandur and Mavallipura, there are many landfills in the city, which are facing serious health concerns in the vicinity and one such place is near Vrishabhavathi river in the...
04:45 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Bangalore: Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy said on Thursday that the BBMP needs at least three to six months to solve the garbage crisis in the city. Speaking to reporters, he said the civic body is taking all steps to clear the garbage piling up across the city. "We are setting up biomethane plants in 16 out of the total 198 wards. Tenders have been finalised and the work order has...
12:20 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Bangalore: Residents of various parts of the city were forced to bear the stink emanating from uncleared garbage on Wednesday. The BBMP had promised to clear the garbage before Monday. However, it failed to meet its own deadline and garbage continued to pile up across the city. Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy had set a 72 hour deadline to clear nearly 7,500 tonnes of garbage last week.The garbage had accumulated all...
01:27 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Bangalore: Want to know about the assets and liabilities of your councillors or the funds being spent on various ongoing projects? Just log on to the newly-designed official website of the BBMP. The layout of BBMPs official website (www.bbmp. gov.in) has changed from Saturday. The new layout is more user-friendly and eye catching than the previous one, the civic body has claimed. According to sources, the initiative is to make...
03:00 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Bangalore: Even though the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) managed to clear garbage from many areas on Sunday, tonnes of garbage remained spewed across some of the main markets. The garbage disposal comes in the wake of Mayor D Venkatesh Murthys promise on Friday to clear the garbage within 72 hours. The City Market, Yeshwantpur Market, Gandhi Bazaar Market, Russell Market, Madiwala and Marathahalli Markets had very little garbage collection....
12:37 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Bangalore: As the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) first chief minister in Karnataka B.S. Yeddyurappa and scores of legislators battle cases against them related to what has come to be known as land-grabbing, the state government is struggling now to find land to dump the thousands of tonnes of garbage that 'garden city' Bangalore dishes out every day. This is one problem the land-scam- and corruption-marred BJP government did not expect...
11:46 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Bangalore: The BBMP Council on Thursday passed a resolution to increase the betterment charges for the revenue sites. This time, it has proposed Rs 540 per square metre to regularise revenue sites of any dimension. Betterment charges are levied on sites in the revenue layouts located in newly-added areas to the city corporation during the formation of the BBMP. There are around 300 such revenue layouts. In 2010, when S...
05:36 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Bangalore: Given the current garbage situation in Bangalore, it is interesting to take note of the future generations perspectives on the same. Around 2,000 children voiced their opinion on the whole issue and students from 50 schools signed and submitted a memorandum to Shankarlinge Gowda, the former commissioner of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), recently. Children also made a human chain to spread awareness on the same. A few schools...
02:36 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Bangalore: The BBMP Commissioners job seems to be a tightrope walk, which few IAS officers have successfully completed. M K Shankaralinge Gowdas sudden exit in the middle of a crisis is the latest example. The government maintained that Gowda was transferred at his request and it had nothing to do with the ongoing garbage mess. But IAS officers with a stint in the BBMP see it as the governments time-tested...
01:28 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Bangalore: The BBMP has cleared most of the garbage piled in the city on Sunday, but is yet to start sanitisation of places where garbage was dumped to get rid of the stink and mosquito menace. The BBMP ferried 900 truckloads (about 5,200 tonnes) of garbage on Sunday and is hoping to clear the rest in a day or two. Sources said about 5,000 tonnes of garbage still needs to...
02:39 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Bangalore: Bangaloreans have to live with the stench for another three days as Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has said it cannot find a solution to the problem of clearing garbage before Monday. The uncleared garbage on city streets is also likely to pose health problems, particularly after the heavy rains on Thursday evening. Doctors said if the garbage is not cleared within two days, dengue will become rampant. Tonnes...
12:22 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Bangalore: Bangalore is India's premier IT hub and houses top companies like Wipro and Infosys. But now, the Bangalore Municipal Corporation wants to take over the privately managed Electronic City, accusing it of tax evasion. The move, however, has drawn howls of protest. Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Manipal Global Education Services, says, "I find it very shocking and surprising that these people want to do this. They have no track record....
09:24 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Bangalore: The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which has financed the IV Phase works of the Cauvery Second Stage drinking water project for Bangalore city, has shown inclination to support BWSSBs plan to provide water to 110 villages which have been merged with the BBMP some years ago. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Urban Development and BWSSB Minister S Suresh Kumar said that JICA has assured...
03:41 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Bangalore: The recent policy adopted by the BBMP for rejuvenation of lakes and tanks in the city is completely skewed and ineffective as most of the water bodies that have been taken up for restoration have neither regained their pristine glory nor retained the flora and fauna. In fact, the 15 to 20 so-called restored lakes are completely dry and fallow today and have lost all the fish and the...
02:13 PM, Aug 02, 2012
