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With Janaagraha's 350 foot soldiers, aptly named 'area voter mitras' (AVMs), having crisscrossed the constituency for vetting and updating the electoral rolls since September last, Sunday's voting was a cakewalk of sorts in Shantinagar.

More than 20 per cent of roads in Bangalore do not have footpaths, says a survey report by Janaagraha, a non-profit organisation based in the city. As part of Ward Quality Score (which aims to measure the quality of life in the city), Janaagraha has ...

Janaagrahas survey couldnt have said it better. It maybe unfair to tar every mantri, every babu with the same darned brush but there's only one conclusion to be drawn from all of the disturbing facts that make up for Bengaluru, aka as Disturbia the politician ...

Affluent youth in India are largely apathetic toward elections, learning that bribery and influence can accomplish more than a vote. Many others who rely on voting as their only source of political power, however, have found the franchise hard to ...

Our country is urbanising swiftly. We now have close to 8,000 cities and towns, including "census towns". We all know each one of these has its own characteristics, in terms of liveability - what it offers and what its strengths or weaknesses are.

There's a manufactured controversy over the Mahalaxmi Race Course's lease which expires at the end of this month. Let's leave the controversy aside for now. If the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), and the state government which is the owner ...

She stormed into my office," says Meenakshi Bharath, the Lok Satta Party candidate for the Malleswaram constituency of Bangalore in the forthcoming Karnataka assembly elections, on how Victoria D'Souza became her campaign manager in February.

India's cities are in poor shape and it is axiomatic that unless you have proper systems of governance in place working through the right kind of institutions, there is no hope for their uplift. Janaagraha, a Bangalore-based non-governmental ...

India's cities are growing at a fast pace like never before. But these cities have been struggling to offer basic amenities to its residents as population swelled astronomically over the last decade.  The unplanned growth has lead to a decline in the quality of life in Indian cities.  Basis infrastructure problems like bad roads and poor transport facilities,  unchecked pollution and lack of clean water and power supply are the main ...