Hasire Usiru
Campaign to Reclaim Bangalore's Commons
Public Action
- Road Widening FAQ - Common questions about road widening answered.
- Workshop on July 4th, 2009: "What's Happening in Bangalore? Meeting the challenge of Protecting Lives, Livelihoods, Public spaces and Our Commons!" Download invitation. Read report.
- Padayatra by Citizens in Protest of Metro Rail Construction Plans in South Bangalore - Sunday Apr 26, 10:30 am Lalbagh West Gate (view poster) (download PDF of poster: English - 109 KB, Kannada - 95 KB)
- Support an Appeal to Stop, Consult and Redesign Bangalore Metro - 23 April 2009
- Report on the Heritage Walk organised on 08 February 2009, by Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritagev (INTACH)-Bangalore Chapter in collaboration with Environment Support Group (ESG) and The Avenue Road Commercial Association (TARCA). (Download PDF - 61.2 KB)
- Report on the Cycle Inclusive Workshop organised on 31st January 2009, by Bangalore Metropolitan Land Transport Authority (BMLTA), EMBARQ, Interface for Cycling Expertise (I-CE), City Connect and RideACycle Foundation (RAC-F). (Download PDF - 84.7 KB)
- Report on the November 29th, 2008 "Campaign to Reclaim Bengaluru." PDF file.
- Flyer (PDF file) for and call to join the Namma Raste protest on November 29th, 2008 at Town Hall.
- Namma Raste newsletter, including a report on November 9th's walk and press clippings of the same. (November 10th, 2008) Download PDF
- Report of the workshop held on July 19th, 2008 entitled "Namma Raste: Reclaiming Bangalore's roads." (Download PDF - 1.48 MB) Open letter to take the intiative forward. (PDF - 490 KB)
- Report of the Public Consultation on Road Widening - Dec 20th 2007. Download the PDF
- Letter to the BMP Comissioner regarding tree felling; April 11, 2005
- Petition to the Governor and CM; April 2005
- Response of the BMRCL regarding tree felling permission - November 19th, 2008
- Representation to the Urban Ministry, requesting that it look into the impacts of road widening - March 20th, 2008
- Representation to the administrator of the BBMP, requesting that Hasire Usiru be involved with the BMLTA - March 19th, 2008
- Representation to the Commissioner of Urban Land Transport - March 18th, 2008
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