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Written By ramesh_mbabu - 26 December, 2008

Bangalore Namma Metro Citizen Reports Metro Rail

A visit to the Namma Metro web site http://bmrc.co.in/ shows

Account for domain bmrc.co.in has been suspended

Does one need any thing more to understand the incompetency of "another goverment department"? Ramesh

COMMENTS

And the site is back up

silkboard - 28 December, 2008 - 16:31

Its back up now. No, I didn't fix anything ;) someone at BMRC was quick enough to sort things out with the hosting provider.

BTW, I hate the chaos in "name space" of these local government websites. Just look at it - www.bmlta.org, www.bmrc.co.in. www.bmtcinfo.com, www.bcp.gov.in - its all thrown around everywhere from .org, to .co.in to .com to .gov.in. Why do all these bodies not live at some common place under kar.nic.in? I am sure that bureaucracy would be their reason - oh, the process to get a site on/under kar.nic.in is so lengthy, I just went and registered a new site myself.

What a pathetic management

mcadambi - 28 December, 2008 - 13:16

V Sivasailam's management of Bangalore Metro is pathetic to say the least. The poor soul spends most of his time blinking and not knowing what to do. This is what happens when you put IAS officers in charge of projects. They are bound to mess up as they have messed up India. 

oh come on guys

silkboard - 28 December, 2008 - 16:25

First, a message like that indicates that the account, as in the web hosting account for bmrc domain was suspedned, the domain was not.

The most likely reason for web hosting account getting suspended is bandwidth overuse. Given that bmrc had tons of documents uploaded, and most of us link to those pdf files directly (its called bandwidth leeching) may have caused the problem.

Other common reason would be that someone forgot to pay up hosting renewal charges. Too bad someone at BMRC forgot to do this. But don't use just this to say BMRC or Mr Sivasailam suck. Its rare, but even Microsoft forgot to renew hotmail.com domain a few years ago. (what a coincidence, both companies are known for running late on projects)

I am no defender of BMRC or Mr Sivasailam, but using a a teeny tiny website problem to write a blanket-bashing post or comment isn't the best thing to do.

They have been pretty good on keeping their website current and fresh - much better than other sarkaari websites, so I would let this online blemish go.

Not to say that there are no blemishes from BMRC worth scrtiny and criticism.

Shilton Hotels

santsub - 29 December, 2008 - 18:24

BMRC has its website hosted there because the company that created this amateurish site has also created shilton hotels . They possibly added it there as a back up. Good find though...

email ids dont work

blrsri - 29 December, 2008 - 11:25

The website is up but their email ID's still return errors!

The URL's for tender documents on the site point to shiltonhotels.com for some reason..has the site been hacked?

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