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UMTA Now! Stakeholder workshop

Urban Development
5 Jun 2017 15:03
Asia/Calcutta

Pedestrian PIL - How can you participate/help?

Pedestrian Infrastructure

1. Look at the affidavit and find if your road is a part of the list of roads BBMP wants to make walkable.

2. Take pictures of the footpath/sidewalk which are unwalkable/have obstructions. Make sure to put date & time on the pictures.

Mobilising Civic Activism

Governance
On 4th Feb, 2026, Bangalore International Centre hosted a talk titled "From Grievance to Vision - Mobilising Civic Activism in the Indian City"
 
The talk was by Mr Prem Chandavarkar, Managing Partner, CnT Architects, and Meera K, Co-Founder, Citizen Matters

My report on WRI webinar on "ESG reporting for Indian Electricity Utilities"

I was invited by WRI to join a webinar on "ESG Reporting for Indian Electricity Utilities: Challenges & Opportunities" held on Oct 16, 2025 03:00 PM India. 
 
Over a decade back, in March 2014, I had been invited to a half-day workshop, in Bangalore, on "an

"ESG reporting for Indian Electricity Utilities" - superseded

This blog is awaiting deletion, by the admin, as it is superseded by an updated blog dated 23rd Oct, 2025, on the same subject. Since I needed to do a lot of editing, I chose to start a fresh blog than jst do a job of editing this blog.
 
In the meanwhile, those interested in the subject may check the fresh blog.

IRR street: Standstill to Active - report release and panel discussions

Infrastructure
The event was organised by B-PAC at Koramangala club, on Saturday, the 26th July, 2025
 
During the Q & A session following the release of the report, I brought up the matter of an obviously unauthorised arch coming up (of which massive pillars, cramping even the walking space, have already been cast) at the entry poi

My PIL for quality power supply

Text of the order issued by the Honourable High Court of Karnataka on 4/12/2024, against the PIL No: WP 15147/2022 (GM-KEB-PIL), between Mr Muralidhar Rao (appearing as Party in Person), and 
1) THE STATE OF KARNATAKA, represented by The Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka,
2) The Chairman, Karnataka Electricity

Unsolicited advise to the new Congress sarkar in Karnataka from a "non-godi" NGO member

Governance
Instalment 1)
 
Here I will comment on the promises made by the party in their manifesto
 
1) Gruha jyoti - 200 units free electricity
Best instead to go for total power distribution reforms, along the lines of the Delhi model in cities/ towns (urban areas),

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Fix Road Engineering - CUT Trees as needed

Have had the tree and environment subject close to my heart for many years and I still do. But as the title reads, there has been a realization that trees also need to be cut at times in the city!

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