Bengaluru: The wait for Bengaluru’s long-pending civic body elections is set to get longer. Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) has moved the Supreme Court, seeking a four-month deferment of polls to the city’s five corporations covering 369 civic wards, citing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across Karnataka.The application, filed by the GBA…
Bengaluru: Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), which is set to launch a citywide drive against abandoned vehicles Friday, issued a detailed standard operating procedure (SOP) that lays down the process for identifying, towing, and disposing of vehicles left on roads, footpaths, and other public spaces.The drive, to be carried out jointly by the city corporations, traffic…
Bengaluru: In top gear after clearing miles and miles of footpath encroachments, the Karnataka govt is now set to move out hundreds of vehicles long abandoned on the city’s roads, in residential layouts and public spaces.Five city corporations under Greater Bengaluru Authority, in coordination with Bengaluru Traffic Police, will launch a citywide drive on Friday…
Each volunteer was assigned six road stretches and equipped with measuring wheels to record street-level data at their convenient time Bengaluru: Weeks before the Supreme Court reaffirmed pedestrians’ right to safe footpaths and Karnataka launched its pavement reclamation drive in Bengaluru, Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) had already begun a city-wide effort to map arterial and…
Fewer than 10 vendors remained along Jayamahal Main Road in JC Nagar Friday, operating only from pushcarts Bengaluru: As the footpath encroachment clearance drive gathers momentum across the city, street vendors in several areas have begun vacating pavements on their own to avoid enforcement action.The pattern was clearly visible Friday along Jayamahal Main Road in…
A Geographic Information System (GIS)-based integrated digital dashboard, set to be developed for Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) area, will integrate information related to roads, road history, underground utilities, streetlights, and ongoing infrastructure works undertaken by various departments. All civic agencies have been directed to upload details of their proposed works and action plans on the…
What should be a pedestrian-friendly corridor has become a maze of obstacles and risks Walk-o-meter rating: 2/5From Richmond Circle to Shoolay Circle and D’Souza CircleBengaluru: If a hurdle race were to be conducted in the tech capital now, Richmond Road would qualify to provide the perfect turf. From displaced cobblestones to missing bollards, multiple trash…
Bengaluru: BMTC has denied the claims that it has increased the price of ordinary bus monthly passes.In a press release Monday, the corporation stated that the monthly pass for travel in ordinary buses within city limits continues to cost Rs 1,200. It explained that its Rs 1,500 monthly pass includes services operating in the extended…
Bengaluru: The govt Monday issued a fresh order expanding the exemption for obtaining permanent electricity connections. The move is expected to benefit lakhs of homeowners across the state who were affected by earlier notifications and eligibility conditions.Under the revised order, owners of completed residential buildings constructed on plots measuring up to 2,400 sqft, with a…
Bengaluru: In a sharp rebuke to the erstwhile Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), now known as Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), Karnataka high court has directed the civic body to issue Transferable Development Rights (TDR) certificates within three months to landowners whose property was taken and used for road formation more than a decade ago.Justice M…
