STUCK IN TRAFFIC: Today, it may be beneath no person’s control actually but the visitors mess in the city is on everyone’s minds and lips. Even brief movies are being made at the lengthy snarls. Thousands of mins are lost on a daily basis, caught bumper to bumper and Bengaluru is hungry for answers. Politicians wooing voters will want to do more than point to the Metro tracks.
OPAQUE ADMINISTRATION: The civic society in Bengaluru is aware and energetic and ready to hit the streets or gherao the place of job. By right, it expects to be incorporated in the choice making on vital issues and doesn’t like surprises. It doesn’t respect secretive skywalks or initiatives being palmed off to companions of the ones in power. It demands transparency and has zero tolerance for opacity.
ARE WE SAFE? Be it terror, crime or attacks on girls, each fashionable city is taking a look at protection past policing. And at preventing such incidents fairly than reacting to them. An activist being shot at her doorstep jolts the faith each citizen has in the gadget. Citizens wish to pay attention what applicants plan to do to cause them to feel secure.
PARCHED CITY: The timing couldn’t had been worse for the khadi-clad extended family to move with their arms stretched to voters. With temperatures hovering, water tankers are running amok in the bylanes of several Bengaluru localities. Water is a sensitive factor, not just in the Cauvery basin or North Karnataka but additionally in the state capital. The failure of successive governments to ensure water provide in the city, especially in north, southeast Bengaluru and the more recent spaces, will rankle with voters.
LAST MILE LAG: Notwithstanding the bludgeoning enlargement in the number of private automobiles, a majority of Bengaluru still will depend on public transport, with BMTC alone catering to no less than 45 lakh other folks daily. The metro rail service too has come as a breather in different portions of the city but the total public transport gadget, especially the lack of final mile connectivity, is a priority for each city commuter on a daily basis.
FOUL AIR AND FROTH: Sweetsmelling roads with plants kissing bitumen in autumn has turn out to be reminiscence for old-timers and fiction for the new migrants. Mounds of rubbish and frothing lakes is more find it irresistible. How a garden city was a stink bomb is a story for some other day; the focal point is now at the incapability of the ones in place of job to switch the situation.
GET A NIGHTLIFE: Traditionally, the city has been a pensioners’ paradise, with the typical Bengalurean operating 9 to five in one PSU or the opposite, coming home to coffee and tindi and calling it a day via 9pm max. The new millennium modified all that. Now the typical Bengalurean is in all probability a techie pulling in lengthy hours and hitting the pub at evening to unwind. But bars and pubs are allowed to stay open till 1am handiest on weekends; younger Bengaluru says nightlife can’t be a weekend phenomenon.
BLACKED OUT: Compared to a decade ago, the power situation in the tech city has advanced considerably, from time to time at the price of other regions in the state, but lengthy unscheduled power cuts still haunt electorate. Generators buzz into motion throughout residences and highrises but that’s hardly ever the answer.
BILLS, BILLS, BILLS: Cost of dwelling has been one of Bengaluru’s bugbears for lengthy. From petrol and diesel to food costs and rent, Bengalureans pay more than their opposite numbers in different places. And their source of revenue can’t stay alongside of the costs, they feel. While this is not totally the result of policies and actions via the state govt, electorate will still wish to know what it plans to do to ease their misery.
SWACHH SYSTEM: Growing literacy charges, expanding digitisation and enhanced exposure makes Bengaluru one of the spoken-about cities on the planet. But its electorate are still spending hours and days to even get elementary govt services and products. They demand that their officialdom paintings for them efficiently and truthfully, which brings their political bosses into focus too.
OPAQUE ADMINISTRATION: The civic society in Bengaluru is aware and energetic and ready to hit the streets or gherao the place of job. By right, it expects to be incorporated in the choice making on vital issues and doesn’t like surprises. It doesn’t respect secretive skywalks or initiatives being palmed off to companions of the ones in power. It demands transparency and has zero tolerance for opacity.
ARE WE SAFE? Be it terror, crime or attacks on girls, each fashionable city is taking a look at protection past policing. And at preventing such incidents fairly than reacting to them. An activist being shot at her doorstep jolts the faith each citizen has in the gadget. Citizens wish to pay attention what applicants plan to do to cause them to feel secure.
PARCHED CITY: The timing couldn’t had been worse for the khadi-clad extended family to move with their arms stretched to voters. With temperatures hovering, water tankers are running amok in the bylanes of several Bengaluru localities. Water is a sensitive factor, not just in the Cauvery basin or North Karnataka but additionally in the state capital. The failure of successive governments to ensure water provide in the city, especially in north, southeast Bengaluru and the more recent spaces, will rankle with voters.
LAST MILE LAG: Notwithstanding the bludgeoning enlargement in the number of private automobiles, a majority of Bengaluru still will depend on public transport, with BMTC alone catering to no less than 45 lakh other folks daily. The metro rail service too has come as a breather in different portions of the city but the total public transport gadget, especially the lack of final mile connectivity, is a priority for each city commuter on a daily basis.
FOUL AIR AND FROTH: Sweetsmelling roads with plants kissing bitumen in autumn has turn out to be reminiscence for old-timers and fiction for the new migrants. Mounds of rubbish and frothing lakes is more find it irresistible. How a garden city was a stink bomb is a story for some other day; the focal point is now at the incapability of the ones in place of job to switch the situation.
GET A NIGHTLIFE: Traditionally, the city has been a pensioners’ paradise, with the typical Bengalurean operating 9 to five in one PSU or the opposite, coming home to coffee and tindi and calling it a day via 9pm max. The new millennium modified all that. Now the typical Bengalurean is in all probability a techie pulling in lengthy hours and hitting the pub at evening to unwind. But bars and pubs are allowed to stay open till 1am handiest on weekends; younger Bengaluru says nightlife can’t be a weekend phenomenon.
BLACKED OUT: Compared to a decade ago, the power situation in the tech city has advanced considerably, from time to time at the price of other regions in the state, but lengthy unscheduled power cuts still haunt electorate. Generators buzz into motion throughout residences and highrises but that’s hardly ever the answer.
BILLS, BILLS, BILLS: Cost of dwelling has been one of Bengaluru’s bugbears for lengthy. From petrol and diesel to food costs and rent, Bengalureans pay more than their opposite numbers in different places. And their source of revenue can’t stay alongside of the costs, they feel. While this is not totally the result of policies and actions via the state govt, electorate will still wish to know what it plans to do to ease their misery.
SWACHH SYSTEM: Growing literacy charges, expanding digitisation and enhanced exposure makes Bengaluru one of the spoken-about cities on the planet. But its electorate are still spending hours and days to even get elementary govt services and products. They demand that their officialdom paintings for them efficiently and truthfully, which brings their political bosses into focus too.
Karnataka polls 2018: 10 things Bengalureans have on mind
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