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Looking for a possible solution to a Town Planning Blunder

psaram42 - 24-JUL-2009

 

Learnings from Delhi's power supply privatisation

murali772 - 23-JUL-2009

DELHI has never been inviting in May and June. This summer, the capital saw its worst power crisis, and frayed tempers pushed Sheila Dikshit’s government on the back foot.

Harassed by Automen- excess fare? tampered meter? Official Help is at hand !

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 23-JUL-2009

Transport authorities and Legal Metrology Departments have provided the following email IDs for lodging complaints on harassing auto drivers.  

Are linguistic states a costly mistake?

psaram42 - 22-JUL-2009

 

eBiz platform for DIPP, Ministry of Commerce and Industry

murali772 - 22-JUL-2009

The project of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, is among the 27 Central, State and Integrated Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) under the Nati

Revamp of the Bangalore civic body.

psaram42 - 11-MAY-2009

 Recently we discussed about high dividers and roads being made “Double roads” in a forum. The truth is that, the roads are two way traffic roads by default, to start with. Normally two way roads are made one way to take care of increased traffic density. There is sometime a need to iterate to satisfy the public demands.

Outer Ring Road project - work first, tender later?

silkboard - 20-OCT-2008

ORR tenderIt was a bit puzzling to spot this tender from BDA in newspapers last week. Dated Oct 15, it called for "Improvements to Service Road of Outer Ring Road from Marathalli underpass to Central Silk Board junction (missing bits)". At least on the tenderwizard site (click for all recent BDA tenders), there is no other older tender calling for improvements to these service roads. The puzzling part however is this. Service Road improvement work is already in full swing! In fact, I have been noticing digging work for over a month now.

CAF PIL on Bangalore Master Plan 2015

admin123 - 24-AUG-2008

Vijayan Menon, resident Bangalorean and an urban planning citizen enthusiast, forwards us the documents related to the Public Interest Litigation(PIL) filed by the Citizens Action Forum(CAF), the Koramangala Initiative(KI) and several residents of Bangalore, challenging BDA's Draft Revised Master Plan - 2015. Also included is the Report of the Advisory Committee on the Draft Revised Master Plan -2015, also called the PSS Thomas Committee Report, which was set up to analyse citizens feedback.

 

"Bangalore is New to the Kannada Experience"

tsubba - 15-JUL-2008

Girish Karnad on his new play: “Bangalore is new to the Kannada experience, therefore, even-though you will find a rich Kannada tradition in writing, theatre, cinema and poetry until very recently you will find very little writing on Bangalore. Stories on the life in Bangalore — the stories of Jayanagar, RT Nagar and Indranagar are but stories not found on paper. Hence, I decided to base parts of the play in Bangalore to explore the conundrum”.

Slum re-development under JNNURM

tsubba - 24-MAR-2008