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An NGO meet with BBMP officials on Lakes revival and maintenance

6 August 2012 - 11:09am — psaram42
Pollution

BBMP is contemplating to establish a structured system of high order involving citizens of Bangalore. It is a laudable claim indeed made by Chief conservator of Forests Sri Brijesh kumar of BBMP. To days TOI report has covered in detail the event held at IIM Bangalore on August 5th 2012.  About 125 odd representatives of 21 lake committees have taken part. 

Let's do it in our back-yard (LDIIOBY)!

2 July 2012 - 10:49pm — murali772
Pollution

When it comes to the latest Garbage City tag, there was indeed a PIL filed. Fighting the negative tag was Neeraj Mishra, a resident of Indiranagar. Two years ago, Neeraj filed a PIL in the High Court of Karnataka when he found that garbage near his house had rented the place for free and the BBMP was letting it flourish.

Stink-free Bangalore?

20 June 2012 - 10:35am — murali772
Pollution

The projects to clean up storm water valleys had been taken up under Environment Action Plan (EAP) Part A in 2004, but it was taken up again in 2010 as there was no progress.

Dismal Town planning and the Bellandur lake.

8 January 2012 - 9:00am — psaram42
Urban DevelopmentGovernance

 

The 60th National Town and Country Planners Congress on “Planning and Development, 2025: is currently on at Mysore.

Hoardings, Banners and Visual Pollution...

21 August 2011 - 5:15pm — mp
EnvironmentPollution

For the past 2 months banners such as the ones below have been very conspicuous by their size and nuisance value all over JP Nagar and parts of Jayanagar. I am sure other localities have their equivalents.

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Leading by example

9 August 2011 - 6:38pm — murali772
Public Health

Seeing the used plastic cups, lying amongst other waste, in a bin, Dr Meenakshi Bharath, the SWM evangelist, dramatically bent down and started picking up the cups one by one with bare hands. This was at lunch time following the meeting of RWA's, convened by the Namma Bengaluru Foundation last Saturday, at the Koramangala Club.

Refurbishing the BDA Park @ Ward-58 New Tipp Sandra

27 July 2011 - 2:21pm — psaram42
EnvironmentPollution

 

Our MLA Shree Raghu has supported many maintenance works like

Lake-a-thon

7 July 2011 - 11:54am — United Way Bengaluru
31 Jul 2011 07:09
31 Jul 2011 07:09
Asia/Calcutta
EnvironmentPollution

Bangalore has been experiencing an alarming decrease in the number of lakes, down from 937 in 1937 to only 212 lakes in 2010. Historically, these lakes have been the main source of water for citizens.

Bangalore too high on road air pollution?

2 June 2011 - 7:24am — silkboard
EnvironmentPollution

Delhi and Ahmedabad have already done it. Chandigarh too I beleive. But going purely by observations (can't find any published information from RTO), 40-50% of autorickshaws still seemed to be on petrol.

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