�Spot Fix Album

Next to the Sekhar’s Nandini Milk Booth opp. Palm Meadows

Spot fix 1 : Sept 20, 2013

• Swept up Garbage
• Scrubbed the “To be painted” surfaces with wire brushes
• Painted wall and sidewalk
• Stack up cement blocks layering cement in between and lay kadappa stone on top
• Installed a `Tere Bin’. Cemented pots down

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Cost Rs 9000

RGHALLI Bus Stop

On the Palm Meadows Side

Spot fix 2 : Sept 21, 2013

• Cleaned up garbage
• Brushed wall, transformer wall and sidewalk with brushes to prep for painting
• Begin painting. Laying of tiles and chamber cover – professionally done though residents helped
• BESCOM called to help remove an old transformer pole lying around. They brought a crane the same day!
• Time taken – 6:00 am – 6:00 pm. Up to 40 volunteers 

Cost Rs 35000

Just before the RGHALLI Bus Stop opp. Palm Meadows

Spot fix 3 : Sept 22, 2013

Cost Rs 4000

Prestige Ozone/ Chaitanya Armadale/ Brigade Harmony Access Road

Spot fix 4 : 20th Sept 2013

• 300ft long, 30 ft wide common access road in front of Prestige Ozone and Veracious Lansdale, Brigade Harmony and Chaitanya Armadale was transformed with just one week's planning and took more than 2 days to complete.
• This road located and in full view of the main areas in Whitefield had issues different from the one on the Ramagondanahalli stretch and that meant new thinking and creativity to solve their local problems.
• Several children also come out to support.   
• The work involved initial clean up of the street and sidewalk, de-weeding, solid waste removal, defining the existing curb on either side of the 30 ft road, raising the level by adding sand, pavers, and painting the curb with yellow and black stripes.

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MVJ College of Engineering

Spot fix 5 :

RMV Wines, RG Halli

Spot fix 6 : Nov 9, 2013

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• The place needed to see new use – so a park was conceived by TUI with a winding path and mounds of grass that would make it green instantly
• BESCOM/BBMP installed a lightbulb near wine shop
• RMV Wines allowed use of their sewage pipe so “wonderloos” could be installed outside
• The transformer on the footpath that took up the whole walking space became less relevant after the winding road in the park became the way to pass the transformer. The transformer too was improved with edging around it so people wouldn’t injure themselves on the iron rod that seems to always jut out – somewhere around a 10 year old’s head height.

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Wunderloo

Unity Park : Feb 2014

Cost Rs 35,000

Sigma Tech Park frontage cleaned up by ERM employees

• Clean-up. Sigma employees frequent the chai shop for tea and there were a lot of wrappers strewn which were cleaned up
• Base of the trees were spruced up by laying bricks along the sides and planting a few `lantenas’
• Pavement areas that were broken were mended and edges painted.
• A bench placed at the coconut vendors stall (near to the exit gate of Sigma) and sufficient dustbins provided.

Spot fix 7 : Dec 1, 2013

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ITPL Gate 2 on Agrahara Road

Issues

• Illegal 2-wheeler parking near Gate 2
• No footpath/ safe pedestrian walking areas
•  2-wheelers  park illegally & brazenly
• No Parking signs, barricades and Traffic Warden ineffective
• Footpaths have no slabs and are cluttered with debris, thorny plants etc
• Vendor garbage in drains and on the road
• Vendors are illegal, though service ITPL employees
• Not on BBMP’s daily garbage collection route
• Have no facility to dispose of garbage collected daily in their dustbins
• Dump contents of their dustbins in the drains every night and set fire to it. This is the root cause of the visible garbage problem
• Vendor location creating traffic bottlenecks due to customers standing on the road
• Vendors are located haphazardly, and there are no drain covers, so customers have no choice but to stand in front of the shops, on the road. As there are two-wheelers parked on the opposite side (consuming 5-6 ft of road width), and customers occupy another 5 feet of road width, an already narrow road loses 10-12 ft of width – an entire lane!

Solutions

• Smart design and change in environment induced this behaviour change
• Daily garbage collection service
• After studying  garbage collection route of BBMP, a system was created, where a volunteer collects the garbage shop-to-shop between 1230-1245pm everyday and hands it all over to the BBMP Garbage Tractor that stands down the road at 1pm everyday
• All vendors are delighted with this, and they have NOT dumped their daily garbage in the drain
• Created space between vendors and ‘Safe Customer Zones’ with visibly safe & solid stone drain slabs (not plywood as before)
•  Customers naturally gravitate towards these areas, and stay off the road
•  By placing dustbins near the customer, the dustbins get used

Spot fix 8 : Dec 1, 2013

Spot fix 8 : Dec 1, 2013

ITPL Gate 2 on Agrahara Road

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ITPL Gate 2 on Agrahara Road

Spot fix 8 : Dec 1, 2013

• Dell sponsored cleanup and brought their volunteers. Brigade sponsored civil work. BESCOM ensured folks were safe and powered down the transformer while BBMP and BTP did their bit.
• Whitefield Club opened their gates for the transit area .
• Artwork of art on the wall took inspiration from the old stained glass and tile patters from the church

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Team 

• White Field Rising 10 people�Dell. 50 people and Sponsors�The Brigade Group. 8 people and Sponsors�Brigade contractor. 5 people�BBMP. 8 people�BESCOM. 4 people

Memorial Church

Spot fix 9 : Dec 20, 2013

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Cost Rs.28000

Spot fix 10 : Feb 2, 2014

Sobha Rose

• 100 meters+ stretch with 6 difficult spots fixed by 30 residents in 4 hours flat. 
• Frontage with an eyesore of a fallen tree-trunk ridden with termite was used as a dumping ground by pedestrians. Two adjacent properties - Water tank and an unfinished building were also abandoned dumping areas which needed special attention. 
• Although an easier choice was to settle with cleaning the frontage alone, but the residents took a stretch target to clean the complete 100 meter stretch with the adjacent 2 spots too. 

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Spot fix 11 : Feb 22, 2014

Whitefield Inner Circle Park

A motley group of volunteers came forward to clean a part of the drain running outside the periphery of the park. They unearthed the signage for the park lying under the drain. Trees were planted and several garbage dumps were cleared with the help of a JCB.

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Spot fix 12 : March 8, 2014

Women’s Day Spot Fix

Opp. Waterwoods

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Spot fix 13 : Mar 22, 2014

Digital Library, Thubrahalli

Change is on their own hands.

Regent Place, Pride Orchid, Paradise Nest showed true community spirit and cleaning frontage of Digital Library.

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Cost Rs 60,000

Spot fix 14 : July 27, 2014

Govt. School, Ramagondanahalli

Introducing the segregation bins and pamphlet in 3 languages to about 100 residents in RGH, understand what problems people have which is preventing them from fixing.

Fixing two tree spots where all the rubbish has won the battle so far.

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Spot fix 14: Oct 12, 2014

ITPL

Spot Fix : Nov 8th 2014

Varthur Kodi

ECC Road, Whitefield, Bangalore Spotfix

15-Feb-2015

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Volunteers from various campuses on GR-ECC and Agrahara-ECC Roads transformed a garbage heap as well as nearby stretch into a clean and green place.

We appreciate residents who removed posters, plastic, paper, glass, stones; planted shrubs and a tree; painting the wall and wrote slogans. Soumya, Ruma, Farzana took the lead, Mridula created a brand-new E2RF logo.

Reduce, reuse, recycle was the mantra: reusable gloves, minimum use of disposable masks, use of existing brushes, water in steel tumblers, tea in earthen kulhad... no disposable plates either.

BWSSB contractor helped us to procure bricks, BBMP contractor with pick-up van, Aamod Centre and Ecumenical Christian Centre and Prestige Bougainvillea with plants, Praveen Gowda with permission. Citilights Rustique and Gopalan Atlantis also contributed funds for procurement of paint, masks, etc.

Shailaja helped with tools, paintbrush, paint, bins, shovels, etc. The Ugly Indians were the original inspiration, and 'kaam chalu mooh bandh the guiding motto'.

Together everyone achieves more (TEAM) was evident at every stage of preparation and today from 6:30 to 10:30. Representatives of following deserve a big applause:

1. Whitefield Ville 2. Gopalan Atlantis 3. Citilights Rustique 4. Prestige Palms 5. Prestige Langleigh 6. Prestige Silver Oak 7. DSR Green Vista 8. Prithvi Layout

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Nellurhalli Rising

13th April at Victoria View gate, Borewell Road