Overloaded trucks of Mangalore

silkboard - 19-AUG-2008

Was in Mangalore recently, and witnessed the famous overloaded ming trucks first hand. Can someone from the area enlighten us - how does this thing work? Some questions I got are

Ban on iron ore export likely

mcadambi - 19-AUG-2008

We in Karnataka know very well how our feudal Reddy brothers control the mining mafia and the transport mafia as well. Our miners prefer to travel by helicopters.

What BDA spent on Abide

silkboard - 16-AUG-2008

Mr A pulled out BDA's expense report on Abide (remember this event?). He found that BDA spent Rs.21,86,487 for that full day session at IISc. See a similar news reported about BBMP (Biscuits worth Rs 50000). That small event has allegedly been over-accounted. The same can't be said about Abide event, this is pure information for public consumption.

Jayanagar 5th Block RWA interacts with MLA and officials

blr_editor - 13-AUG-2008

Mr Mukund shares with us the following piece of news :

Hope for green belt? - breaking news

murali772 - 13-AUG-2008

CAF's counsel in their "Master Plan PIL" has informed as below:

After hearing the arguments at length, the Division Bench of the Hon'ble Chief Justice and Justice V Gopalagowda was today pleased to pass an interim order that any approvals in the Green Belt of 714 km under the '95 CDP shall be subject to further orders of the Court.

Concession agreements vis-a-vis MRTP

mcadambi - 12-AUG-2008

Concession agreements for infrastructure should be within the frame work of the Competition Act (previously MRTP Act):

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/11/29/stories/2006112900880700.htm

Benniganahalli Railway Bridge Protest , K R Puram

santoshshetty39 - 8-AUG-2008

The 7 th of August 2008 , Near Benniganahalli Railway Bridge , K R Puram ,Bangalore - 36 Regarding the issue of Widening the road , Mr .N.S.Nandeesh Reddy , MLA ,K R Puram Constituency met with the public ,as they were protesting for the widening of road .

Mr .N.S.Nandeesh Reddy himself participated in the protest and called the NATIONAL HIGHWAY DEV AUTHORITY people and told that they will call a Tender for widening this road within this 25 th of August 2008 .

As he insisted the people regarding the issue , the public gathered took back the protest.

BMTC and Rs 750 crores

silkboard - 7-AUG-2008

BMTC has postponed its Rs 750 crore IPO for the time being due to volatile market conditions. But its never too late to look at their plans. BMTC had submitted a Rs 3000 crore plan tothe center under JNNURM to "modernize and expand its network to meet the public transport demands of a growing city.". The plan is (source: Livemint) "to raise money from the public to add luxury buses on newer routes".

Ignoratia Juris Non-Excusat

mcadambi - 6-AUG-2008

Title sound latin to you? Well, thats because it is! It means "Ignorance of laws and procedures is not an excuse".

Namma Raste - road use efficiency

silkboard - 5-AUG-2008

Read in an email this morning that on 19th July 2008, a workshop on “Reclaiming Bangalore’s roads: Namma Raste” was jointly organized by Environment Support Group (ESG), CIVIC Bangalore and Alternative Law Forum at Vidyadeep, Ulsoor Road, Bangalore.

The context for this meeting was the PIL against BBMP over widening of 91 roads. Apparently, the claim is that the widening projects will increase average vehicle speeds from 8-10 km/hr to 40 km/hr (ref: material from ESG/HU - these should soon be up on ESG website, so I will save myself copy paste jobs here).