Bangalore Political Action Committee

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  'Commuting Time, Waste Management': Bengaluru's Biggest Civic Concerns

  As part of a new Bengaluru Rising initiative, 10000 people have been questioned across the city to understand what their biggest civic concerns are - and to convey those priorities to the city's mayor and corporators.

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  Locals Sound Alarm For Bengaluru's Sankey Tank

  Bengaluru's lakes are slowly being choked, fear the city's residents. Toxic foam has taken over Whitefield's Varthur lake. And now, luxury condos may come up soon next to Malleswaram's Sankey tank, which, locals say, will destroy the lake's avian habitat and contaminate the water with sewage.

• All for a better Bangalore: techies take to civic leadership programme

  Young IT professionals usually wonder how to spend their weekends differently. A group of more than 60 individuals in Bangalore are showing the way.

• Karnataka government, opposition in war of words over rice scheme

  Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today launched the ambitious 'Anna Bhagya' scheme in Bangalore. The scheme covers nearly 1 crore families which have the below poverty line or BPL ration card, where in each family can get upto 30 kilos of rice at Re 1 per kg. The scheme will cost the state exchequer more than Rs 4400 crore a year.

• Karnataka Polls: Lakhs, left out of electoral list, robbed of right to vote

  Braving the summer heat, voters across Karnataka headed to polling booths to exercise their franchise on Sunday - resulting in one of the highest turnouts in the state's electoral history at over 71 per cent. But that figure is of little comfort to the tens of thousands more who wanted to vote, but could not.

• Karnataka assembly elections: for clean politics, Kiran Shaw panel backs 14 candidates

  The Bangalore Political Action Committee or BPAC, set up and headed by Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar Shaw to try for cleaner governance, today announced a list of 14 candidates in Bangalore that they are endorsing ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections, to be held on May 5. The candidates were selected based on criteria that included education and a c...

• Bangalore Political Action Committee endorses 14 candidates from Bangalore constituencies

  Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC), a citizen's group that aims for better governance in Bangalore and to enhance the quality of life of every citizen, on Saturday announced a list of 14 candidates from across the political spectrum that it is endorsing for constituencies in the city.

• Getting Bangalore to vote: a major new initiative

  With its large floating population, Bangalore, India's tech hub, has the dubious distinction of a consistently poor turnout in elections. Now, a group of citizens have joined hands in an attempt to change that record.

• Narayana Murthy backs movement for clean political candidates for Bangalore

  Will Bangalore's voters get a chance to choose from electoral candidates who do not have a corrupt and criminal background? That is the fervent hope of several opinion leaders in the city who have got together to form the Bangalore Political Action Committee or BPAC. The initiative was formally launched on Sunday, and aims to mobilise the urban mid...