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Bengaluru bulldozed, bruised, but NOT beaten

Bengaluru registers their anger against erring builders and corrupt government officials for jeopardizing the future of thousands of hardworking citizens! Most Indians assume that the culture of rampant corruption, lawbreaking and mal-governance is ‘a way of life’ in our country, but what people overlook is that every state, city and…...

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Demolished By Corruption

Known as India’s IT hub, Bengaluru boasts of leading the country into an era of technological and digital revolution. However, today the city stands exposed for having fallen prey to uncontrolled urbanization, haphazard growth and above all lack of accountability among those governing this city. The BBMP demolitions of unauthorized…...

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House Owners Suffer, While Officials And Builders Go Scot-Free

While BBMP has begun the demolitions, it has stopped short of taking a more important corrective measure – acting against officials who allowed these illegal constructions to come up! It’s far easier for BBMP, which has now identified the encroachments, to go after officials who permitted this illegality. Building plan…...

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Transfer May Negate Gains – Clearing Tonnes of City Garbage Is a Real Uphill Task

It has been over four years since the infamous New York Times article -“India’s Plague, Trash, Drowns Its Garden City During Strike“ where our dear “Garden City“ earned a global reputation of being a “Garbage City“ -was published. For a city that is known as Silicon Valley of India and…...

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Namma Hakku – Citizens’ Rights Series

In the first of its kind initiative Namma Bengaluru Foundation in association with MP Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar on June 16, 2016 organized a unique interactive citizen’s workshop, with an objective to awaken, inform and educate the citizens of Bangalore on the recently passed Real Estate Regulation Act (RERA). The focus…...

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