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swamy - 1-SEP-2008
Mr Chavan lost his son to bad road hump design. He used RTI to get information. Now he is planning to do PIL "seeking a High Court directive to the authorities to either remove the unscientific humps or relay them as per Indian Road Congress standards". Read the inspiring story on Bangalore Mirror's new website. - Parent’s war on ‘killer’ road humps |
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Ganesha Festival & Our Environment Ravi_D - 1-SEP-2008
You may not have seen some of these pictures... but this is what happens after the festival is over. This entry (see last paragraph) seems to even imply a ban by Mumbai police. |
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Roads, streets, footpaths - design to implementation Resource hub asj - 31-AUG-2008
Hi! Thought we could collect, categorise, print and hand over every resource that details good practice with regards road / pedestrian infrastructure to our authorities. Lets not leave them with any excuse for executing yet annother bad job. I know we have our IRC stuff floating about, but I find their work somehow falls short (and why wont they let people download stuff - they are limiting their ability of empowering citizens with this crazy policy). |
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Care. Participate. Know. Change tsubba - 29-AUG-2008An inspiring story from HD Kote shows why the geeks will rule the world. The Hindu A 14-km stretch connecting Bidarahalli with N. Begur in H.D. Kote wore out within a few months after it had been re-laid. The residents, led by a non-governmental organisation, filed an application under the Right to Information Act and found out that the money spent was not proportionate to the work done. They filed a complaint with the Lokayukta and we ordered the road to be re-built, Mr. Hegde said. |
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tsubba - 28-AUG-2008Website: http://www.mangaloresez.com/index.php# Launching the website on Tuesday, chairman of the Nitte Education Trust N. Vinay Hegde said: “I am a pro-SEZ person. Mangalore has no future unless we become SEZ friendly.” |
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murali772 - 28-AUG-2008
You can mark your apartment, your office, your school, the shops in your neighbourhood or elsewhere, landmarks, the roads that you know. You can state whether a road is a one-way, how many traffic lights there are on the road. Indeed, you can mark anything. For more, click on: Muralidhar Rao |
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HAL Heritage Center and Aerospace Museum blrsri - 28-AUG-2008
MIG 21, they say, created so much scare in the USA when it was launched by USSR, that they spent lot of effort to understand this warplane! Where can you find this in Bangalore? at the 'HAL Heritage Center and Aerospace Museum' The details are below: |
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Landfill unit begins operation murali772 - 27-AUG-2008
After much protest from the public, landfill site for hazardous wastes developed by the State government in Dobbespet has started its operation. Hyderabad based Ramky Environmental Management Pvt Ltd, the service provider at the site, has been collecting hazardous waste from industries, since June 19, this year. So far the service provider has collected 1,800 tonnes of hazardous waste. The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has entrusted the job of lifting the waste and dumping the same at the landfill unit in Dobbespet, to the service provider. |
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balajiolety - 27-AUG-2008There has been a lot of activity on other posts but i find the infrastructure towards yeshwanthpur and the NH-4 towards nelamngala hardly recieve any updates...can anyone update about these infrastructure projects under development or that are about to start? |
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Useful resource - Long-Life Concrete Pavements in Europe and Canada asj - 26-AUG-2008
Here is something which may be of interest and use of Praja members who want to look at local standards and compare with Western standards. http://international.fhwa.dot.gov/pubs/pl07027/index.cfm#execsumm Have not seen it in detail, seems useful. Cheers. ASJ |