Idling under the Neem Tree

  Idling under the Neem Tree By Malini Shankar Digital Discourse Foundation While the transition from Bangalore Municipal Corporation or Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike to Greater Bangalore Authority has grabbed headlines, the transition has not been fantastic in the less glamorous areas: servers, officers and their terms of reference…Worse there is still no will to set right the mess created by lack of discipline in solid waste management. Standardised packaging ware? Being the avant garde city that Bengaluru is, - reputed to be the Silicon city its administrators and politicians have not shown either the will or political support in introducing standards in manufacture and packaging material itself. Standardised packaging ware will make a huge reduction in waste generation as it conforms to recyclable standards. No protocols defined, much less monitored in supplanting trees that are felled in urban areas for “development”. Before you know it Bangalore / Bengaluru will be shea...