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psaram42 - 14-MAR-2010
India has a total land area of 328 Million Hectare (MH), out of which 162 MH have already come in to cultivation. This is a high percentage of 51% of the total land of the country. The forest and natural vegetation area is about 19.25%, which is less than an optimum of about 33.33%. Photographic proof from satellite imaginary seems to have proved this beyond doubt. Forest (green) is important for keeping the CO2 balance in the atmosphere. |
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BBMP election - candidate information hemaraj - 14-MAR-2010
The election for the bbmp is around the corner, at this point of time giving ideas is late,but atleast the future elctions can take up these actions. Election commision should also go into latest technology by promoting a website,saving paper, allowing every candidate some particular byte space to write about himself, this accessible to all citizens. We citizens have never heard of the candidate who contests and the busy professionals dont take time to find out about the candidate. I suggest that all the candidates contesting, 1) mention the ward he is contesting,born and eduated place and institution. with his family details and his motto. 2) the party he is representing 3) Brief history when he enterd the politics, year to year which party he was in, his position from which party he held, reason for leaving the party to join the next party, 4) disclosure of his assets, what is his business, what is his income, what are the servces he has achieved during his tenure. 5) what are his administration skills, |
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49-O : option to vote for nobody hemaraj - 14-MAR-2010
every one who is grieving about the civic problems not addressed in your area . take action. this is the only cahnce in four years you get to address the problem. read this article. |
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sanjayv - 13-MAR-2010
I came across this interesting document while surfing around on the BBMP website for Qtr2 09-10. It is a fairly large report sent to quarterly to the central government on the status of various JNNURM projects implemented by the BBMP. It makes interesting reading. I think a careful perusla and analysis will shed a lot of light on how projects are run and the attitude of the govt officials towards the public. Here is a snapshot from the item on the Tagore circle underpass. Tender release date: 25/09/2007, Scheduled date: October 2008 Budget: 2318 lakhs Reason for delay: Project not started due to non-cooperation by the public.MLA intervention is sought. Issue is being "solved".
Eh? The public is an impediment. in the path of progress. A problem! Link to the report here. |
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murali772 - 13-MAR-2010
Amid protests and dharna from the opposition Congress and the JD(S), the Legislative Assembly on Friday adopted the Azim Premji University Bill, 2010, thus paving the way for the state’s first private university aimed at improving the quality of primary and higher education by providing training to teachers. The Alliance University Bill, 2010, another private university Bill, was also passed in the Assembly. |
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Chikka Circle Buses (K service) ss87 - 13-MAR-2010
There has been sightings of new route prefixed with "K" near Koramangla. The same has been confirmed by http://btis.in K service or the Chikka Circle service has been started recently by BMTC. Following are the routes:
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Fire Safety - project to bring awareness and seriousness Ravi_D - 13-MAR-2010
This project is coming out comments like these (Awareness, Citizen's audit) from Major Kapur, Ravi_D and others on the discussions we had about incidents at Carlton Tower. Remember, it could be the mall you visit, or your office building next, and fire breakout is always one accident away. |
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Safety at Elevated Hosur Road (BETL) Bheema.Upadhyaya - 13-MAR-2010
Believe it or not, Hosur Road Flyover witnessed multiple vehicle accidents at least 2 times involving 4 or more vehicles. Few accidents even caused damage to median, any one can see it clearly. 2 Fatal accidents have also occured. Pity ! - A local "breaking news" channel did not get these news, while they get news within minutes from any part of city. I suspect their mouth was shut by "Kaibisi"(Some offer) . When I drove I felt like driving in tunnel, not comfortable. I saw average speed of 90+Km when I drew. Ironically during a test of VMS(variable message system) it read "All is well. Drive slowly" !!! Now I am scared to drive even below flyover in regular road, as I heard of an accident where a biker flew above side-guards and fell below onto road( and died of course). I always drive exactly below the flyover(rightmost lane) to be safe from falling objects, call me whatever.. To BETL : All the best for your toll collection which is going to start "soon" (Soon - Answer I got when I asked some people at toll. No dates, no certainity) . Make sure your customers reach other end for sure. |
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Bheema.Upadhyaya - 12-MAR-2010
[Cross posted from my suggestion to BMTC via their website.] If KSRTC can issue the travel e-ticket using credit card and ID card combination, why can not issue daily/weekly/monthly pass electronically? I am sure many people will opt for it and reselling will reduce though not to great extent. |
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srinidhi - 11-MAR-2010
Naveen presented a good summary of his meeting with BMRCL One thing that came of that was the DPR for the phase II was in the final stages and would be out soon..there are already questions on |