Good morning, Bengaluru!
⛈️ Today’s weather: Breezy with thundershowers.
🧐 Did you know? The lowest minimum temperature ever recorded in Bengaluru was 7.8 degrees Celsius on January 13, 1884.
🚇 Modified metro schedule
From July 9 to August 10, early morning metro services on the Purple Line will be disrupted.
What’s it about? From July 9 to August 10, Namma Metro services on the Purple Line will be disrupted due to signalling and other maintenance tasks. The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has suspended metro services between Baiyappanahalli terminal and Swami Vivekananda Road Metro station and KR Puram and Kadugodi station on Whitefield from 5 am to 7 am.
- During this time, commuters can access metro services between SV Road metro station to Kengeri and vice versa.
- From 7 am, all trains are operating per the usual schedule, between Byappanahalli and Kengeri, and between KR Puram and Whitefield till 11 pm.
Missing link: The Byappanahalli-KR Puram corridor isn’t operational yet. The 13.75-km line from KR Puram to Whitefield is open for commercial operations. However, the approximately 2 km section from Byappanahalli to KR Puram is still dealing with construction delays in building an open web girder.
🥘 Deputy CM’s surprise Indira Canteen visit
During a surprise inspection, DK Shivakumar found an Indira Canteen closed.
What’s it about? On Sunday, Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister, DK Shivakumar, paid an unexpected visit to one of the Indira canteens in Bengaluru. To his dismay, he found that the canteen wasn’t functioning properly. During his interaction with the media outlet ANI, Shivakumar said he found the canteen closed in the morning.
- He had received reports of the canteen charging ₹10 for breakfast instead of ₹5, as directed.
- He assured that the government will soon take corrective measures.
Why it matters? Last month, CM Siddaramaiah issued an order to reopen the Indira canteens across Bengaluru and beyond. He instituted a fresh funding arrangement in place. In Bengaluru, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and the government will split the costs right down the middle, 50-50.
🧠 Expanding stroke care in Karnataka
The state government will expand Bengaluru’s Brain Health Initiative statewide in a hub-and-spoke model.
Systematic expansion: The success of Brain Health Initiative, a state government pilot programme in Bengaluru in collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), has prompted the government to implement it in the entire state in a hub-and-spoke model at a cost of ₹25 crore. It will aim at decentralising stroke and trauma care so that Karnataka’s patients receive timely and effective care.
- A hub-and-spoke model is any logistics network with a central hub connected to several spokes or initial contact points.
- Karnataka’s stroke care plan will have six regional neuro-trauma and stroke-ready centres, 24 step-down centres spread across the state, and NIMHANS as the command centre.
Superhub: The NIMHANS command centre will offer telemedicine-based support and training to regional stroke and trauma-care centres. That’s not all – they’re building up their capacity too.
- The central hub will have a dream team of experts, including trained neurologists, radiologists, neurosurgeons, anaesthetists, stroke nurses, and physicians.
- They will provide top-notch tertiary care for stroke and head trauma cases and sustain peripheral centres.
🏗️ Tackling urbanisation’s many challenges
At an urban management seminar, experts shed light on Bengaluru’s rising temperature and its associated costs.
Heat island: At a seminar on urban management and water supply at the Raman Research Institute (RRI) on Saturday, Prakash Chauhan, Director of the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), revealed that rapid urbanisation has led to the city’s average temperature rising by around 1.5 degrees Celsius.
- In the past two decades, Bengaluru has lost 65 lakes. Vegetation has reduced by 40%, and the area under lakes and wetlands has diminished by 30%.
- The annual temperature in Bengaluru has witnessed significant variations in this timeframe due to the Urban Heat Island effect.
Other takeaways: In the past 20-25 years, urbanisation has grown at a rapid pace of 87%. Professor Tarun Souradeep, Director of RRI, emphasised learning from past mistakes. He highlighted RRI’s commitment to sustainability, boasting a green campus and a ‘zero-waste’ policy.
- RG Nadadur, President of the Environment Association of Bangalore (EAB), shared their achievements, including installing rainwater harvesting systems in over 25 schools since their first project in 2018.
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🗞️ In other news…
- Four firms submit bids for the civil work of the Suburban Railway Project’s Kanaka Line.
- Construction gains momentum at Yeshwantpur Junction.
- The BMTC will add 2,000 buses to its fleet based on growing demand.
- Here’s what Bengaluru’s environmentalists think about Gujarat’s recycling model.
- 80 from Karnataka were stranded en route to Amarnath cave.
That’s it for today. Have a great day!