Bangalore Political Action Committee

2. Dr. Ashwath Narayan CN

3. BPAC Questionnaire

4. 1. What measures will you take to make your constituency crime free and
safe for women?
• Encourage Societal participation through regular citizen interaction
with each other and with law enforcement authorities
• Adopt “Know your Neighbour” programs
• Implement “Neighbourhood Watch / Eye” initiatives
• Ensure usage of GPRS and visible patrolling by law enforcement
• Make police stations people friendly
• Create awareness about various self-defence techniques for women
• Illuminate streets well
• Provide mobile safety applications especially for women, teens and elders in society
• Enforce laws and repose faith in the system

5. 2. What steps will you take towards road improvement as well as traffic
improvement?
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Make out an integrated traffic management plan
Reduce street parking as much as possible by providing multilevel (overnight also) parking lots
Prevent road encroachments
Regulate street vendors
Decongest traffic by improving junctions and improving public transportation
Establish synchronized traffic signals
Demarcate / make arterial and sub arterial roads

6. 3. What are your plans for waste management and garbage segregation in
your constituency?
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Established “My Clean Malleshwaram” forum
Implement Source Segregation of waste
Create awareness about innovative waste disposals, at source
Encourage societal participation
Offer several solutions like Bulk Generators, Aerobic composting, etc.
Decentralize waste management units

7. 4. What is your proposed action plan to provide drinking
water to the citizens in your constituency?
Short term measures:
• Provide additional quota of water
• Enforce strictly Rain Water Harvesting
• Recharge Bore wells
• Recycle water
Long term measures:
• Create Operation and Maintenance policy to reduce wastage from present
40% to 15%
• Bring accountability and measurability to both water supply/water
distribution
• Reduce, Recycle and Reuse

8. 5. Do you have any solutions to address the power outage that affects
citizens in your city?
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Increase Solar generation and energy efficiency
Connect excess power generated back to Grid
Reduce consumption and transmission losses by using bundled cables
Encourage use of Renewable energies
Reduce cost of implementing alternate sources of power generation at household level.

9. 6. Have you worked out any other development plans that will improve your
constituency? Eg. Slums, health care, education, etc.
Towards improving the overall quality of life of the common man, several schemes
have been implemented under my leadership over the past 5 years at Malleswaram constituency.
(Ref. www.drashwath.in for complete details).
Specifically development plans for Slums would be:
• Government funded low cost housing
• Organized development of rehoused slum dwellers by
providing all basic amenities
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10. 6. Have you worked out any other development plans that will improve your
constituency? Eg. Slums, health care, education, etc.
Specifically development plans for Healthcare would be:
•Push for preventive healthcare
•Imbibe fitness in all
•Educate public on better nutrition
•Screen health for all – especially the vulnerable in society
•Create a primary health care centre for each ward
•Maintain Public Parks and playgrounds established
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11. 6. Have you worked out any other development plans that will improve your
constituency? Eg. Slums, health care, education, etc.
Specifically, development plans for Education would be:
• Skill and need based education
• Establish Community Colleges
• Improve overall quality of education
• Develop government schools to be on par with private schools
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12. 6. Have you worked out any other development plans that will improve your
constituency? Eg. Slums, health care, education, etc.
Contribution to the Revenue side of BBMP through implementations of key projects which
have resulted in more than 1000 crores of revenue to BBMP:
• Implemented Optic Fibre (OFC policy)
• Streamlined e-procurements,
• Creation of Road History project
• Launched Property mapping (PID project)
• Brought about accountability of civic agencies
• Replaced entire arterial sanitation and water supply pipelines with enhanced
capacity-with a futuristic view to avoid clogging

13. THANK YOU
For any clarifications or further information visit www.drashwath.in