Bengaluru parks to stay open during the day: Great move but who will check?

Varini G was a BA LLB (Batch of 2023) graduate from the School of Law, Christ University, Bengaluru. She currently works as a Research Fellow with the Karnataka team assisting various departments and local governments in Karnataka. Her primary interests are local governance, devolution of power, urbanism and socio-economic rights through critical and feminist approaches to the law, policy and governance. She believes in participatory approaches, radical decentralisation and equitable access to cities. Her nonacademic interests are reading speculative fiction and exploring different music cultures. She enjoys a history of everything, the outdoors, nature and spicy food.

Sneha Priya Yanappa is a Senior Project Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, where she currently works on legal and institutional frameworks for urban heat resilience and climate governance. Her current work focuses on identifying legal and institutional solutions to the impacts of extreme heat across sectors including urban governance, public health, labour and education, with the aim of embedding climate resilience into laws and policies. Formerly the Team Lead for Vidhi Karnataka, she has advised the Government of Karnataka on legislative drafting and regulatory reforms across urban governance, climate change, environmental governance, education and rights-based policy. Her work examines how law, governance and institutional reform can make cities more equitable, liveable and sustainable. Her interests span climate change, urban governance, constitutional law, public international law and public policy. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from the University of Oxford and a B.A. LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School, Pune.