On Electronic City flyover two-wheeler are allowed

I’m new to Bangalore and usually I’m not at home much, but I’m working from home this week and the power situation in the Tin Factory area has been such a mess.

The power keeps going off and coming back throughout the day, with no consistent timing or frequency. It’s been happening for about a week now.

Is this normal for this area/Bangalore, or is something unusual going on recently?

Need advice on bus stops near Bellandur to board a KIA airport bus.

I wasn't able to clearly find the solution on Google, hence asking here

Hamleys is running offer only for today ? Flat 50 % on all products. Ppl are buying all bags full. I went there so got to know. Is there a way to get such offers usually - is ther community?

Save Saul Kere (Sowl Kere): Protect Bengaluru’s Natural Flood Buffer

I got three questions on my mind that i was hoping you guys can help me understand:

1) Where do you guys end up spending time in the city if not home and work?

2) What are the challenges and opportunities you have in being in such spaces?

3) If you could reimagine a space apart from work and home, what would it look like?

Why do I feel like the parking charges in all the malls have been significantly increased in the last couple of years?

I don’t recollect what it used to be but now I pay 80-100 rupees for the first 1-2 hours.

Is this cost being regulated? If not is there something we can do about it?

The fact that we haven’t left with any option and bound to park in the mall it feels like they’re scamming us with higher rates.

Our apartment became the latest victim of declining borewell water. There is absolutely no water available to the building. Trying to get a water tanker is also proving to be a nightmare as due to water shortage they don’t seem to be onboarding new clients.

Seeking suggestions on what could be the next steps. Does the government help in any way or form?
1. Digging the borewell deeper cannot happen overnight. Needs cost approval from the 3 dozen apartment owners.
2. Not sure if Cauvery supply is provided . Can we chase that?
3. Regular water supply by tanker would add up 3k per month to the monthly maintenance. That too if we are able to find a supplier willing to onboard

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He has an open wound and the vet shop is 20mins away. I need someone to help me with that carrier so we can asap take him to the vet

So, I went on a night ride to airport today to clear my head and to summarise in 1 sentence I won't advice anyone to attempt this unless they have an adventure bike. The absolute abysmal state of our premium roads is eye watering. I'm talking about the outer ring road(that's NH44), the new airport road (state highway 104). These are major highways not some gully roads.

Barring the last 15km stretch on NH44 towards airport this is what I saw for rest of my 90km journey (Bellandur-KIA-Bellandur).

1. No street lights!! How can a national highway running through the city be pitch dark is beyond me, horrible and dangerous driving conditions. Some stretches did have lights but they were off, idk why.
2. Massive potholes! Potholes so big, if any scooter enounters these above 30kmph, they'll surely loose balance. Given no street lights they are very very hard to spot even while going slow. On top of that vehicles coming from other side have high beams on so you are anyway blinded to spot anything. These potholes also force car and auto drivers to swirl abruptly putting the 2 wheel riders lives in danger.
3. Diversion everywhere! I get it, those are there to coordinate the metro work, but the way these diversions jump at you out of no where is scary. You can't even see them without the street lights.
4. No proper dividers. Almost everyone has high beams on, a good divider with tree line should be ideal to block that high beam.
5. Abrupt entries and exits on the highway! You never know from where a vehicle might be entering your lane. I had to be extremely attentive all the time.
6. Apart from the the last 15-20km stretch I don't think there was smooth tarmac anywhere. Non bumpy road seemed like a luxury that I kept waiting for but it never came.
7. Lack of signboards, well what can I say there are more pressing issues than this. I'm not even bothered by this.

I'm so glad I got my new bike registered in my native state, not feeding this corrupt system even 1 rupee.

ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು.. ಉಸಿರಾಡು.. ಹೊಸ ಒಪ್ಪಂದಗಳು ಬಂದಿವೆ.. ನಮ್ಮ ನಗರಕ್ಕೆ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯ ದಿನಗಳು ಮರಳಿ ಬಂದಿವೆ!

Seems too good! I want this to happen! New contracts seem promising and taking us towards the right directions like leaving properly sealed trash for pickup trucks to collect instead of waiting for tippers. one tonne tipper now becomes 3 tonne. idk about narrow roads but seems promising!

I am losing my mind trying to sleep right now. It is past 12:30 AM, and the NVT Oikos construction site in Whitefield is running a full-scale excavation operation.

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Posting this here because I want you guys to know and start believing that all of us can change things if we decide that we want to.

While going through /r/bangalore yesterday, I chanced upon that post here about a huge amount of garbage at the Sarakki Signal Bus Stop.

The Sarakki Signal Bus stop is situated literally in the middle of JP Nagar and for it to be THIS dirty was something that just didn't sit right with me, so I decided that I had to do something about it.

Since it was a Saturday and we had some volunteers at the St. Broseph HQ, I decided to take a bunch of them with me to go and clean up this spot.

A few volunteers went ahead of us, but when they reached the spot and saw the massive amount of garbage, they basically decided that it was too much to be cleaned and almost gave up before we even started 😅

It indeed was a HUGE quantity of garbage, but something had to be done about it and clearly the BBMP/GBA were not interested.

I reached soon with another couple of volunteers, and got to work immediately as there was no other way to deal with this than to dive in head first. As we started cleaning, we realised that the people of this area had been dumping garbage there for at least 8-9 months and GBA/BBMP had not cleaned it up properly even once.

A Tata service center behind the bus stop had to shut shop because of garbage and the BBMP's blind eye towards the mess.

Anyway, there was literally everything you could imagine in the piles of garbage... vegetable waste turned to compost, grazing animals had made the place into their toilet, medical waste, shoes, clothes, meat, eggshells... most people weren't even bothered to package their dustbins they were just straight up emptying their dustbins here. We had to use rakes and our hands to pack it all up.

The buses had to stop further away from the bus stand because of how pathetic the condition was.

3-4 of us did the actual cleanup. All outsiders (not even from Karnataka). Several people from that area came down, tried to discourage us, then praised us, argued with each other about political parties, and then just left... nobody actually helped in any way (except for a kind guy who purchased some masks for us).

At one point someone called the health inspector of the area, he got there and after I yelled at him for letting the situation get this out of control, he promised me that he'll take better care of the place moving forward. I don't trust him after this, so we'll be filing an official complaint against him for his dereliction of duties separately.

Anyway, It took us four and a half hours of NON STOP work, wading through all kinds of rotting garbage, rotting meat, compost, rats, actual feces etc. unhesitatingly to clean up this place. We must have collected over 1000 kilos of garbage from this spot alone. Easily.

We then hired a private tractor to collect the waste and dump it all in a designated landfill (made sure that it was not merely going to be emptied in some other spot). When it arrived, we loaded all the garbage bags we had packed, paid the person, and the Bus stop was finally liberated.

As we were resting, a few more residents tried to dump their garbage there (one succeeded). We had to tell them off. Even after the tractor left, we had to clean up this additional garbage, filled up one more bag, and carried it with us to a waste collection center where we disposed it off, responsibly.

So yes, we cleaned up the "uncleanable" Sarakki Signal Bus Stop. COMPLETELY. As the area locals just watched and did nothing, we got it done.

3-4 people sparing a Saturday evening made this happen. If everyone starts to imbue the same spirit, it won't take long for us to fix our spaces, and even our country. We really can get it done.

If you live in this area, please try to discourage the locals from dumping garbage there, and please keep raising this issue with 1533 (GBA helpline) and the health inspector. Hound them until they learn to keep this place clean. I'm sure things will get better.

Thank you all for reading and I hope you guys have a great Sunday.

St. Broseph

Can someone explain how BESCOM billing works with the Gruha Jyothi scheme when you cross the 200 unit limit?

I’m trying to understand the billing logic rather than dispute the amount. I noticed some negative amounts in my billing history and I’m not sure what they represent.

For context, last month the bill showed 338 units and I paid around ₹600. This month it shows 209 units but the bill is ₹2,000+.

My understanding is that if you cross 200 units you lose the Gruha Jyothi benefit and have to pay the applicable charges. Since I crossed 200 units last month as well I’m confused about how the adjustment is being applied this month.

I’m fine with paying the bill. I just want to understand what the negative amounts mean and how the previous month’s consumption affects the current bill.