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Written By silkboard - 22 November, 2008
Bangalore Praja Meeting suggestion
A lot of activity goes on behind the scenes here that doesn't show in blogs and forums. Not that members want to keep things private, but things tend to start via emails or conversations between island groups of members, and there is just no time to post everything in detail. A few posts may have given some hints, but sample this for the things that some members are trying to do via emails and SMS'es that I know of
- A white paper on decongestion for Bangalore
- Planning a presentation/PIL on "How lack of a real LTA is hurting Bangalore"
- The BIAL-RTI effort
- Meeting with Lokayukta to pursue ways of helping him
- Road standards working group - interaction between some members
- Creating place for "tourism/recreational" type posts on the website
- That pending meeting with Mr Albert Brunner before he leaves
- Technical feature requests for website (a few threads)
- Meeting with BWSSB about their big project
- That meeting with Ashok Kheny (lost momentum, no time to do the rescheduled meeting)
- Meeting with Mr Rajeev Chandrashekhar/ABIDE (his secy said he'll get back, and slowly, we have lost momentum here as well)
Now, I am sure there are a few other activities that either I don't know of, or have forgotten to list here.
Shall we start a recurring open Praja meeting where members meet face to face to just keep the momentum going on various activities. We'd meet to update each other on our activities and ideas or may be to just know each other by meeting in person. These would be open meetings so that new members can get to meet others.
Let us see the interest levels before we plan the first meeting. Knowing the profile of most members here, how about
- Second Saturday of every month, early morning time (7:30 am). Or is once a month a bit too much? If we get to meet on the sideline of some other event, no need for a meeting that month.
- Venue: either at a volunteer-host's house, or at Lalbagh of Cubbon Park
Essentially, let us change from "we will meet for significant events" to "let us just meet regularly".
What say? One meeting a month wont hurt, is it!?
COMMENTS
ananth.bangalore - 4 December, 2008 - 07:49
ar_t_kaushik - 22 November, 2008 - 18:28
kbsyed61 - 23 November, 2008 - 02:15
SB,
Good idea. There is no substitute for a face to face meeting. Start with once a month and can always fine tune depending upon the need and progress. Please do allow users like me (Remote) also to participate in the meetings.
Second Saturday works fine with me.
Syed
Naveen - 23 November, 2008 - 04:29
SB,
This is a great thought. A meeting appx'ly once each month in some public space, convenient for all, will bring folks "closer" & go a long way in promoting these efforts.
A few (not many) are presently pursuing some efforts purely dependent on their own initiatives, interests, & above all, is subject to investment of their valuable time & many activities, as listed by you, are done mostly behind the lines. Whilst this is commendable, "group efforts" are few as participation levels are not high enough. This can be addressed better with such regular meetings.
I welcome these meetings. How about others ?
silkboard - 28 November, 2008 - 12:18
See http://bangalore.praja.in/events/open-praja-meeting
ananth, there is thing called mobile phone you know, thats how we usually connect for our meetings. but that was funny!
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