What we do

Since its inception in 1992 CIVIC’s (Citizen’s Voluntary Initiative for the City) work has revolved around urban issues, specially realizing social equity in growth of Bengaluru through the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act (Or the Nagarapalika Act, an act under the constitution of India that defines how cities/towns in India need to be governed). Its current focus is on addressing corruption by building transparency, accountability and people’s participation in urban governance through the Right to Information Act (RTI). It also uses RTI to empower the poor and access government services. CIVIC works at two levels – field level and policy level. It uses the experiences gathered at the field level to bring policy changes needed at the government level.