Out of the 41,403 vendors who have applied to the PM SVANidhi scheme, only 8522 have received the amount. They say that they get pushed around from one office to another. Bengaluru: For the past two months, Munilaxmi has been going to the State Bank of India (SBI) office in Kumara Park every other day. […]
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Bengaluru: The Sarakki lake bed, in south Bengaluru, has been encroached upon in such a way that its southern end has turned into a thin tail where three temples have been built illegally. The Observer visited ten of the 15 illegally built religious structures on the lake bed. At the southern end, encroachment starts with […]
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Libraries have received only 10 percent of the amount owed to them. Bengaluru: Torn pages and low stock of required books are adding to the pile of problems that public libraries are facing in Bengaluru. They need the money to fix the books and buy new ones but have no access to the funds that are […]
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No protective gear, place to sleep for them Bengaluru: Adverse working conditions at Dry Waste Collection Centres (DWCCs) in JP Nagar have made workers vulnerable to infectious diseases. Delays in payment of salaries and lack of awareness about protective gear have added to their woes. “The BBMP has not helped us. Everything from masks to […]
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Government efforts to help urban poor in Bengaluru during the lockdown have gone in vain as the citizens have not received the benefits. Anil Kumar Tiwari April 13, 2020 Bengaluru: Slum-dwellers of Agrahara Dasarahalli are not getting free milk from the authorities despite the Karnataka government’s effort to supply free milk in urban slums. Nizamuddin […]
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Cattle are feeding on packed foods amidst the Covid-19 crisis. Harshith V April 11, 2020 Due to the Covid-19 crisis, milk dairies in Bengaluru are facing a shortage of fodder to feed cows. They have been forced to feed them with untraditional feeds like Indi and Busa in excess. About 15,486 dairy farms in major […]
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Doctors feel that the mere deployment of home guards isn’t the solution. Bengaluru, March 05, 2020 By Shivani Mishra Hospitals in the city do not have adequate security measures for their doctors. With a lack of surveillance system, doctors say that they feel unsafe when patients become agitated in the hospital. Bangalore Medical College and […]
Continue ReadingAdilin Beatrice C Pet lovers are unhappy over the BBMP’s proposed Pet Dog Licensing Bylaws 2020. They are particularly riled over the proposals to ban “ferocious” breeds like German shepherds, Rottweilers, Dobermans and hounds from apartment buildings, and to limit the number of dogs a resident can have. Apoorva Kulkarni, owner of a five-year-old German […]
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National Green Tribunal urges for de-centralized management of waste as BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) drowns in city produced garbage. As BBMP runs out of places to dump waste and the waste disposal apocalypse looms large over the city, National Green Tribunal (NGT) singled out de-centralized waste management as the only plausible solution to the […]
Continue ReadingThe 2019 IIJNM Investigative Journalism Report “Metro Mess” by the Watchdogs Team. By Anuradha Sriram, Ayanti Bera, Sahana Sanjeev, Samanth Lanka, Sharathkumar Nair, and Yajush Gupta. A COLLECTIVE UNDERGROUND CHAOS How the miscommunication and ignorance of urban authorities are deliberately putting millions of lives in danger. Namma […]
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