Meeting with Mr. T. Venkatraju, Chief Engineer, BWSSB

11/12/11 06:16 - psaram42

Mr. T Venkata Raju. Chief Engineer BWSSB,  was contacted to day. He has agreed for a Saturday meeting at BWSSB Office at Indira Nager II stage, Bangalore.

The Tentative programme is

Venue : BWSSB Office at Water tank behind Indiranagar Club

Date  : 26 Nov 2011

Time : 10:00 AM

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de-cattle-class-ifying bus services

11/11/11 14:40 - murali772

Recently, I was required to make a few trips to Kochi. The options before me, and what each implied are listed below:

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Cost for getting an Electric Connection in India and abroad!

11/08/11 21:50 - kbsyed61

I am sure you all have gone through this one time or other directly or indeirectly of exeperincing the plaesure of getting an electricity connection. Do We know how much it cost to get an elcetricity connection to our homes, offices, businesses, industry?

Here is an comparison of cost and efforts to get an Electricity connection in India with other countries in the world.

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Karnataka Right to Services - Feedback. Summary - need money & IT

11/06/11 20:14 - silkboard

GoK may have pushed it to score points, may be that they rushed through the ordinance, but this is THE MOST important development in recent years on governance front. We all need to just get in on this to make sure this happens, and happens right.

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Karnataka - Right to Services Act Bill proposal

11/05/11 02:17 - Public Agenda

Here is the full bill proposed by the GoK

THE KARNATAKA (RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO TIME BOUND DELIVERY OF SERVICES) ACT, 2011

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City Buses in PPP mode - Bhubaneswar. Why not Mysore?

11/03/11 17:43 - silkboard

Did you know that Bhubaneswar operates Buses in PPP model? They may be planning a BRT too in PPP or outsourced model (see another post for details). Any idea on population and size of Bbsr? 9 lakhs, 135 sqkm. Mysooru? Almost the same, close to 10 lakhs, 130 sqkm.

Clippings from an attached ppt attributed to Mr Saurabh Garg, an IAS officer from Orissa (Odissa?)

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Bhubaneswar going Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) - see RFP

11/03/11 16:59 - silkboard

They have been talking BRTS for at least 3 years now. Orissa government announced the intent earlier this year in July. This week, BDA (Bhuwaneshwar Development Authority, not our BDA) floated tenders for doing detailed technical project report for BRT for total 49 km long, 6 corridors of BRT.

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Smart Cities - Can Bangalore become one?

11/03/11 12:41 - idontspam

How can Bangalore leverage technology to outsmart corrupt & outdated practices? 

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Time for Comments - Citizens Grievance Redressal Bill 2011

11/02/11 21:31 - kbsyed61

Time for review of the proposed "CITIZENS RIGHT TO GRIEVANCE REDRESS BILL, 2011" drafted by the Government Of India.

Source - GOIs Deaprtment of Administrative Reforms Na d Public Grievances

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Bellandur lake revival!! Who killed it in the first place?

11/02/11 04:16 - psaram42

When Sunita Rao called me yesterday evening, about Bellandur Lake, we talked about diverting the storm water drain sewage water being discharged into the Lake. I must admit of my folly. The basic question is why is the sewage water flowing in the Storm water Drain in the first place?!!!! The reason is obvious!

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