The Namma Bengaluru Awards, which recognizes and celebrates outstanding individuals and their contribution towards making Bengaluru better, every year honours its winners with Rs 2 lakh each. This year, taking this appreciation a step further, we at Namma Bengaluru Foundation hopes to crowd source an additional Rs 2 lakhs for each…...
Bengaluru’s traffic woes
Bengaluru today faces many challenges – Waste management, Water crisis, Dying lakes, Endangered environment, unsafe neighbourhoods, etc. – characterized by years of unplanned growth, adhoc and reactive solutions that often make problem worse. Namma Bengaluru Foundation is focused on encouraging partnerships like #UnitedBengaluru, BRACE etc. across our city to address…...
Steel Flyover Beda: Bengaluru creates history
THE EFFORT: Bengalureans unite with #SteelFlyoverBeda chants to ensure the city’s future is not compromised at the hands of unplanned development. THE IMPACT: Government of Karnataka buckles to the citizens’ demand and scraps the controversial 6.7 km steel flyover project from Chalukya Circle to Hebbal Flyover. Namma Bengaluru Foundation welcomes this move…...
Zoning Regulations: Residents Vs Commercial Establishments
Even as the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) takes steps to crack down on commercial establishments in residential areas, Namma Bengaluru Foundation has learnt that residents are being threatened by the violators in certain areas of the city. This had led to a huge uproar, with residents now urging the…...
Controversial Karnataka Urban Development Authorities Bill, 2016
On October 4, 2016, Karnataka Governor Shri Vajubhai Vala sent back the controversial Karnataka Urban Development Authorities (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which seeks to reduce open spaces, to the government. This move from the Governor is a result of Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP and Namma Bengaluru Foundation’s relentless effort to ensure…...
Empowering Bangalore Metropolitan Planning Committee
Given the haphazard growth our city has witnessed in the last few years, what Bengaluru today needs is a proper statutory long-term plan. Matters relating to the planning of the city must to be placed before the Bangalore Metropolitan Planning Committee (BMPC) where members have to discuss the various projects…...
Steel Flyover Beda
Majority of #Bengalureans today are saddened – not because the government is planning to implement yet another infrastructural project, but because the government has given a go ahead to a project that is neither citizen-driven nor plan-driven. The proposed steel flyover to be constructed from Basaveshwara Circle to Hebbal Flyover.…...
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…...
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…...
The Drought Dilemma
When in ‘drought’ – save every drop, every day and every way The word ‘disaster’ invokes imagery of shattering earthquakes, heavy deluges, devastating cyclones etc. However, droughts that are deceptive by nature are equally disturbing calamities. Drought is both an environmental and developmental issue, and nowhere is this graver than…...
