MoM - Meeting with Mr. Thippeswamy

Neha_Dar - 12-APR-2010

Attendees: Shekhar Mittal, Jim Gowda, Zenrainman Sir, Manjari Vishnoi, Neha Dar

We met Mr Thippeswamy, Retd. Chief Engineer (BWSSB) on Saturday at IISc. Meeting minutes captured below.

• Mr. Thippeswamy reviewed our initial list of parameters and had the following remarks:       

             (1) Coverage - As per the Act, BWSSB must provide water supply to Bangalore Metropolitan Area. Only 50% has been covered.

             (2) Unaccounted for Water: This is really a subset of Non-revenue water. Both physical and commercial. Water is also lost due to cleaning of reservoirs, unexpected pipe bursts, supply to fire hydrants, etc.

             (3) Slum Coverage: It is not the BWSSB 's prerogative to proactively provide coverage to slums. Slum Clearance Boards/BBMP/BDA come to them with proposals, which they then implement.

Local Train / Commuter Rail Inputs uploaded

Sanjeev - 10-APR-2010

Following Files uploaded regarding the Local Trains / Commuter Rail for Bangalore  city.

1. Existing  Railway Stations and New Railway Stations needed.

2. Existing  61 + 4 services  of  DEMU / Passanger Trains running arround Bangalore City

3. Bangalore City Railway Track with METRO alignment

4. Approach to be followed for Starting Local Trains

5. Capacity Exists with Bangalore Railway Tracks

6. To be Proposed  11 Alignments  of Local Trains for Bangalore City

7. Changes needed for Local Trains Yesvanthour to Hosur with more Frequency

8. Need for Local Trains and its struggel for Bangalore city.

Other can suggest for changes needed on this so that we can build on this.

College bans private vehicles!!!

Arun - 20-AUG-2009

Meeting Mr Tippeswamy

shekhar_mittal - 9-APR-2010

A meeting has been set up with Mr Tippeswamy (Ex-Bwssb) tomorrow. Thanks to Swati.

The venue is the IISc Cafeteria.

Time is 11am.

Kindly confirm who all are coming.

BMTC - S1 Route (Vijayanagar to Vijayanagar)

Ravi_D - 9-APR-2010

Saw these buses plying on outer ring road near BTM layout yesterday & today.

Looks like an extension of Big10 concept, Big10 to Circle Routes to S (not sure what it stands for) routes?

Surprisingly, while the BMTC call center did not have any detail to offer, the buses seemed to quite fully loaded!. I got bumped from the call center guy to the control room to Vijayanagar Bus Stand (22952362). All were cordial, willing to help, but had no info to offer.

Courses offered by NIOS

vinod_shankar - 8-APR-2010

The NIOS - National of Open Schooling offers the following courses through various modes. See PPT attachment for all academic courses except vocational courses.

Local Trains vs Circular Rail For Bangalore

Sanjeev - 8-APR-2010

Analysis of  last three months discussion and media briefing by Shri MoS K H Muniyappa and CM Yeddiyurappa  shows  that MoS is favouring Circular Rail and CM is talking of Local Trains similar to Mumbai.

Now we will see one more round of study by SWR / Railways for Circular Railway and wasting time on this. RITES study on  Local Trains is not considered by MoS K H Muniyappa and no one is talking of this.

Do any one have the details on Circular Rail what MoS K H Muniyappa is talking.  We from Praja need  to do some serious work so that both proposal Local Trains and Circular Train services are sanctioned for Bangalore.

Karnataka State pollution control board (KSPCB) - active?

manjari - 8-APR-2010

They have 10 offices in Bangalore alone (isnt that good news ;)
They have a lot of laboratories which are set up for KSPCB for data analysis and data gathering.
  
The site says "Samples collected by the Regional Offices of the Board, Industries, Organizations and from general public are analysed."
When i read this I only get evil ideas (evil because it might not be fun for a lot of people)

They have listed a number of parameter that they analyze.
Industrial waste water has: 41 parameters
Air: 6 parameters
Water: 26 parameters.

They have things like "monthly avg result of national ambient air quality" and "classification of river water quality as per GEMS and MINARS"
The only small, tiny winy problem is they have failed to update any new reports and the last one is of 2007.

The last annual plan has been put up for year 2006-2007.

So I have a simple question, what happened to KSPCB? Does it exist? If it does then where are the reports?
If they have reports then cant we file RTI to get it?

Renewing DL at the RTO without touts/bribes

s_yajaman - 8-APR-2010

 My wife and I went yesterday to the Indiranagar RTO to renew her DL.  As soon as we stepped into "the zone" there were touts offering help.  We, of course, ignored them and walked up to the RTO.  

As we walked up we realized that my wife's DL said "RTO BNG CENTRAL" (Koramangala) and we wondered what trouble that would mean.  But we decided to check anyway.

There was a helpdesk there.  It was operational.  We asked the lady there if we could renew the license here.  She gave us the forms and asked us to check at Window 3 if it was possible.  We also realized there was a medical fitness certificate (completely in Kannada) to be got from a doctor.

At Window 3 there was a reasonably helpful lady.  She told my wife that it was possible to do it there.  She confirmed if the address remained unchanged.  She asked us to write a letter requesting that the license be renewed there.   

We paid the Rs.250 fee at the cash counter and my wife went to get her MC done.

Traffic alerts on signboards - Variable Message Signboards (VMS)

vlnarayan - 8-APR-2010

DH Reports :

Bangalore, the first City in the country to have Variable Message Signboards (VMS) on roads and junctions.

Four VMS were commissioned at Raja Ram Mohan Roy Road, Airport Road at Hebbal (two signboards - one towards airport and another towards City) and K R Puram (towards City). These boards are connected to Traffic Management Centre (TMC).