BBMP plans tar plants to speed up pothole-filling exercise
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), in a bid to speed up the process of filling City potholes, is planning to set up four tar manufacturing plants under Public-Private partnership (PPP)...
View ArticleBBMP forest cell bags Sparrow Award
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Forest Cell and its volunteers will be honoured with Wipro - Nature Forever Society Sparrow Awards on the occasion of World Sparrow Day on Friday. The cell has...
View ArticleBBMP plans grand memorial to Kempegowda in Magadi village
The BBMP plans to build the Kempegowda memorial at Kempapura village in Magadi on a large scale. Speaking after inspecting the memorial on Thursday, the chairperson of the BBMP’s Standing Committee for...
View ArticleMayor lines up sketchy post-Mandur plans
Bengaluru: The Mandur clock is ticking away. There are just 22 days to go before garbage dumping here is, well, dumped from December 1. On Thursday, the city mayor assured that the BBMP will keep its...
View ArticleBBMP forest cell bags Sparrow Award
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Forest Cell and its volunteers will be honoured with Wipro - Nature Forever Society Sparrow Awards on the occasion of World Sparrow Day on Friday. The cell has...
View ArticleVillages won't take rubbish, City stares at garbage crisis
Kannahalli, Seegehalli processing units have stopped receiving waste The city may face a garbage crisis again as waste processing units at Kannahalli and Seegehalli on Magadi Road have stopped...
View ArticleBBMP forest cell bags Sparrow Award
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Forest Cell and its volunteers will be honoured with Wipro - Nature Forever Society Sparrow Awards on the occasion of World Sparrow Day on Friday. The cell has...
View ArticleProjects proposed for city development
Important projects proposed in the 2015-16 Budget for Bengaluru’s overall development. The city has received a total allocation os Rs. 4,770 crore for projects to be taken up by various civic agencies....
View ArticleBBMP forest cell bags Sparrow Award
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Forest Cell and its volunteers will be honoured with Wipro - Nature Forever Society Sparrow Awards on the occasion of World Sparrow Day on Friday. The cell has...
View ArticleSafe disposal of hazardous waste is a long way off
While basic garbage segregation, which requires citizens to separate their waste into dry and wet before disposal, is yet to be fully implemented in the city, scientific disposal and treatment of...
View ArticleBBMP issues new tenders for garbage collection, disposal
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has said that it is no longer willing to be wholly dependent on garbage contractors, and that it is building up its own set of workers and machinery as a...
View ArticleDebris on footpath leads to BBMP engineers' suspension
Bengaluru Development Minister K J George has suspended two Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) engineers for allowing private builders to dump debris on footpaths. Devaraj, an assistant...
View Article'Retired HC judge to probe irregularities in BBMP'
A panel headed by a retired high court judge will look into the irregularities in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike as pointed out by the Kataria Committee, Bengaluru Development Minister K J...
View ArticlePeople's problems
Need a hand? Write to us Letters of grievances are pouring in and we are doing our best to accommodate as many as possible. Readers may write in to highlight civic problems affecting their locality and...
View ArticleTo save a lake, BBMP digs a trench around it
Officials of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) have deployed a time-tested battle strategy to stop waste from entering Kundalahalli lake in the city — they cut deep trenches to block all...
View ArticleGarbage woes: Minister gives one month deadline for new processing units
BENGALURU: Bengaluru Development Minister KJ George has set a deadline of one month to ensure that the new garbage processing units worked to the optimum capacity with full...
View ArticleNorth Bengaluru hotels shut their kitchens
BENGALURU: Beginning Saturday, nearly 100 eateries and chicken stalls in Bengaluru North will shut shop up to February 23 to ensure that its smooth sailing for Aero India. BBMP has issued notices to...
View ArticleSoon, you’ll have to take BBMP nod for renovation and demolition as well
Want to demolish or renovate your house? You will soon have to seek permission from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) for this as well, like one has to before constructing a new building....
View ArticleBBMP looks to eliminate contractors
There seems no end in sight to the city’s garbage woes. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is besieged with a fresh problem with the new garbage disposal tenders failing to attract bidders...
View ArticleAbandoned landfill sites to make way for tree parks
The abandoned quarry garbage dump sites, on the outskirts of the city, will soon be turned into the much-needed green cover. The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) is developing tree parks on these...
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