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• Born Bangalorean - love Bangalore and I want to see what I can do for the city in particular and our state to make it a better place.

I cudnt agree with you more on that - I too am Bangalore, by birth and generation and would love to see my city unfold into a better place!

To me personally, BIAL isnt UnAesthetical - its minimilistic rather than grand and I quite like that.Considering there is a Aeropolis coming up and a million other buildings competing for skyline around it, I think soon the whole area would evolve into a more visulaly stimulating area. I feel in such a case, a functional airport would be a huge advantage considering the growth rate. Its a quiestion of Form Vs Function.

Of course we do kep saying why not make it both. Unfortuantely we are constrained by budget and time to not being able to implement both to thier ultimate limits, hence we compromise on one.  After all, Aesthetics are opinions and you are never going to be in a win-win situation.

Now w.r.t BMRC, what worries more is what they are doing by showing us somehting just to get us excited then shelve the idea. Thats like showing a child a candy and then givng him boiled veggies! Its like tricking you slyly....not a nice feeling.

As a city, such big projects I personally dont feel need to be eye catching landmarks. They must be ergonomical, useful, good quality and can definately break away from the government stereotype building look. The building can be built in the same timeframe and budget, with some intelligent use of materials, use of local talent to add the final coating of beauty (Murals, art.....etc).

IMPHO (my personal humble opinion) the city has its landmarks coming up anyway by private and govt bodies, and we need to tone it down a bit so we dont over kill it on the concrete, glass and aluco bond and give it some breating space!

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NRN resigned in October 0f 2005 and BIAL's lack of dazzle was not revealed until much later. The news reports of his resignation had references to one HDDG.

http://www.rediff.com/money/2005/oct/20murthy.htm

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I read this report in today's TOI as well.  Apparently he saw all the airports in the US and realized that BIAL is not upto his standards.

I am glad he looked around in the US.  If he had spent a bit more time looking beyond airports, he would also found that the quality of governance there would also be superior.  The roads, the interstates would also be superior.  Local revenue offices would not send people running from pillar to post for every khata transfer and other documents. 

So he would do well to set his house in order before making uncharitable comments.  The government still has not finished putting lights for the full stretch of the highway from Hebbal to BIAL exit.  He if I am not mistaken was part of the government that finally got BIAL going and could have held BIAL accountable to better standards.

Anyway - politicians are known for their double talk.  See his letter to BIAL on the completion of 100 days. 

He has also patted himself on the back enough and made claims that he has fulfilled 90% of his promises.

Srivathsa

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