Over 79 percent of residents in the city look forward to improvement in infrastructure and civic facilities in the next five years, a recent survey has said.
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“It is a manifesto that residents have prepared to set the agenda for corporators who will contest from eight wards in Whitefield.”
Over 79 percent of residents in the city look forward to improvement in infrastructure and civic facilities in the next five years, a recent survey has said.
A survey of 21 cities shows that while there is deep dissatisfaction with lack of safety and the inadequate provision of civic services, there is little citizen involvement in improving the situation and high level of cynicism about elected officials.
According to a recent survey by Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, almost half of Delhiites polled in 2014 were “satisfied” with the police.
Fed up with the lack of civic amenities in their neighbourhood, a group of the city’s residents have geared up to engage with politics in the upcoming BBMP polls
Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled three different urban-focused schemes on Thursday - the Smart Cities Mission, the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (Amrut) and the "Housing For All" scheme. Barring the Smart Cities Mission,
The government and civil society organizations are at each other’s throats. Charges and countercharges are flying thick and fast
There is a crisis of governance brewing in our cities. In Bengaluru, for instance, the Karnataka government has decided to restructure the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the city’s municipal corporation, and defer polls…
There is a crisis of governance brewing in our cities. In Bengaluru, for instance, the Karnataka government has decided to restructure the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the city’s municipal corporation, and defer polls…
The Smart Cities Mission and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (Amrut) envisage Central assistance of Rs 48,000 crore and Rs 50,000 crore, for 100 and 500 cities, respectively. On the face of it, the amounts seem staggering, but once..
There is no one definition for India’s proposed smart cities. The Ministry of Urban Development provides benchmarks for various services — maximum commute time should be 30 minutes in medium-sized cities and 45 minutes…
The warning bells at the Hebbal Kempapura junction are getting shriller. On Thursday , a private bus collided with a mini-truck at the junction and then hit the median, holding up traffic on the stretch for over one hour. The third accident at the spot in a span of 43 days happened even as not a stone has moved on the…
India’s biggest cities are simply unable to raise the amount of money they need to sustain themselves, city budgets presented over the last month show, with major sources of revenue including parking and rents…
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) presented its annual budget, the last by the current Council, on March 17th 2015. The total outlay in the 2015-16 Budget is of Rs. 6730 crores. Acknowledging the financial situation…
After having tackled issues of hygiene, sanitation, women’s and adolescent girls’ development, Dasra, a philanthropic organisation, is, now, tackling governance. Since the last few months, ‘governance’ has become a stock phrase endlessly repeated in jingoistic…
The chief minister has allocated Rs 5,000 crore to Bengaluru in the State Budget. While the BBMP has got the lion's share of Rs. 3,000 crore, the BDA, BWSSB and the Bangalore Metro share the balance. There are fourteen paragraphs
Two of the city's largest municipal bodies, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike ( B B M P ) and Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), responsible for upkeep and development, have consistently fallen short of their budgetary…
For the first time, the government is readying special allocations for key areas such as Whitefield in the state budget to be tabled next month as Chief Minister Siddaramaiah responds to persistent complaints that Bengaluru's periphery…
A survey conducted to find out the level of errors in the Delhi electoral roll has come up with startling findings. The survey, conducted by a non-governmental organisation based in Bengaluru named Janaagraha, claims that 22 per cent of the names need to be deleted…
Delhi's voters list is riddled with gross errors and names of at least 22 per cent of the 1.33 total electorates require deletion, an NGO claimed today citing its survey, less than two weeks ahead of the crucial assembly polls in the city…
Delhi's voters list is riddled with gross errors and names of at least 22 per cent of the 1.33 total electorates require deletion, an NGO claimed today citing its survey, less than two weeks ahead...
One-third of the people on Delhi’s voter list had moved house, were dead or could not be found, a sample survey has revealed. The findings raise serious questions about the accuracy of the information in Delhi’s voter lists and put in doubt …...
A recent study from the Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy shows that Indian cities rest on a weak systemic foundation. Madhavi Rajadhyaksha highlights the key findings from the study to argue for a systemic overhaul of urban India...
The openness that Wilson spoke of in the early 1900s is being actively sought after even 10 decades later. The concept of open data has been gaining momentum among local governments in recent years, but cities in India stubbornly cling onto their culture of opacity...
When Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship & Democracy released the second edition of its Annual Survey of India's City-Systems (ASICS) last month, it caused little or no shock that Bangalore secured the 18th place in the list of 21 cities...
Conversations on cities and towns in India have traditionally focused on either physical infrastructure such as roads & bridges, metro rails, parks and sewerage systems or on...
Among Indian cities, Kolkata is the best place for quality of life. It was followed by Thiruvananthapuram, Bhopal and Patna...