Rachit Vats

Every school day, about 40,000 children travel on #SH35 between Whitefield and Sarjapur Road. This week, two students, one in primary school and one in senior school, show us the road through their eyes. Tomorrow, we meet them. Same alarm: 5:15. Two different roads. #OurMobilityOurVoice #BetterBengaluru @krishnabgowda @PriyankKharge @GBAChiefComm @blrcitytraffic @wftrps @CPBlr @Jointcptraffic @DCPTrEastBCP @GBA_office @BPACofficial @dcpwhitefield @WFRising @sarjapuraps @SarjapuraRWA @rk_misra @MansoorKhanINC @PCMohanMP @MALimbavali @ArvindLBJP @MLAShivanna

Every school day, our future - 40,000 children and their teachers use the #SH35 corridor. We all share these roads. We all have a part in making the journey better. From Monday, see it through one child’s eyes. Follow his journey from 6 AM #OurMobilityOurVoice #SH35 #BetterBengaluru @krishnabgowda @PriyankKharge @GBAChiefComm @blrcitytraffic @wftrps @CPBlr @Jointcptraffic @DCPTrEastBCP @GBA_office @BPACofficial @dcpwhitefield @WFRising @sarjapuraps @SarjapuraRWA @rk_misra @MansoorKhanINC @PCMohanMP @MALimbavali @ArvindLBJP @MLAShivanna

As China becomes less welcoming to British schools, India is emerging as a new market for their expansion. Having worked at Reuters for nine years across multiple countries, I learnt that understanding local context takes time & that an institution’s culture is critical to its success. Partnerships make it more challenging It will be interesting to see how these partnership models evolve in India - how they combine UK experience with an understanding of local aspirations, culture & community. Ultimately, the differentiator will be the quality of the faculty & the head of School: educators who are truly invested in their learners & in the growth of the communities they serve. And that may be more challenging to import! @PMOIndia @EWPortal @Madhu_Bangarapp @NEP_HRD @SruthySUllasTOI @EduMinOfIndia @TOIBengaluru education.economictimes.indi…

With all due respect to you & @MALimbavali for winning consecutive elections - have to ask what you have done to contribute towards this problem in the first place? Every year it’s the same story … I have been working / living in the area for the last 22 years & frankly shocked with the transformation of a beautiful serene area to a poster child for unplanned urbanisation, unsustainable development & misgovernance I can only hope that voters will recognise the difference between voting for candidates that work for their constituents & those that don’t And the difference between voting for a candidate vs political ideology or party leadership! Until we as voters don’t do that and don’t hold our elected reps accountable- we have to be ok poor infrastructure & facilities

#SimplyAshustMaadi makes implementation challenging for a #BetterBengaluru A difficult morning again on the #SH35 school corridor. 35 of our 61 school bus routes arrived late today, averaging 7.2 minutes behind schedule, our worst morning in over a week. R17, from Prestige Shantiniketan (yes also in Whitefield) was 42 minutes late. Today's delays appear to be a combination of factors: Gunjur Club Road is closed, diverting more traffic onto the already strained Dommasandra–Gunjur–Varthur–Whitefield stretch; waterlogging is adding to the problem; and we are once again seeing heavy vehicles on the Varthur–Gunjur stretch. @wftrps has formally acknowledged the disruption and deployed additional personnel at key junctions, thank you for responding quickly. But today is also a reminder of a pattern. Heavy vehicles weren't meant to be back on this stretch at all. Enforcement must be consistent, and the agencies responsible for enforcing the rules must also be held accountable. None of this happens by accident — "simply adjust maadi" has become a way of life, and when people are frustrated by a free-for-all, they will look for and exploit every loophole! The last two weeks have shown us what is possible when relatively simple traffic-management measures, including restricting heavy vehicles during school hours, are consistently enforced. Most mornings, we had fewer than 20 late routes. The real test now is consistency. This corridor carries thousands of children to school every morning. We need to ensure that the measures that work are institutionalised and enforced every day, alongside the longer-term road and infrastructure fixes this corridor urgently needs. We'll continue sharing our 61-route GPS data and what we see on the ground, so we can collectively understand what works, and sustain it. @krishnabgowda @GBAChiefComm @blrcitytraffic @wftrps @CPBlr @Jointcptraffic @DCPTrEastBCP @GBA_office @BPACofficial @dcpwhitefield @WFRising @sarjapuraps @SarjapuraRWA @rk_misra @MansoorKhanINC @ArvindLBJP @MAlimbavali @PCMohanMP #SH35 #Bengaluru #BengaluruTraffic #Varthur #Gunjur #Dommasandra #OurMobilityOurVoice #InventureAcademy #CivicAction #BetterBengaluru