Metro Feeder Gyaan

11/02/11 03:01 - silkboard

Project wiki to capture project team's thoughts, can structure this for the eventual report.

General Strategy

The Target Commuters

There are two types of commuters to target and please

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Recce ride report - BMTC connects

11/01/11 05:49 - silkboard

Lets keep this post for BMTC related observations from our morning ride. Noticed a few things during the test ride this morning.

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Metro Recce - Tue 1st Nov

10/31/11 08:34 - srinidhi

To travel the reach 1 stretch to check on last mile connectivity..

Will start from MG road station at around 8 :30 AM and travel to BYp

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Mid-Day Meals - Philanthropy to the rescue of inept government service!

10/31/11 02:04 - kbsyed61

A day before on my departure to US, I had the good fortune to visit "Mohsin Shariff Education & Charitable Trust Mid-Day Meals Programme" operations located in K R Puram. This trust every day prepares and delivers the 'Mid-Day Meals" for the government schools students in and around Bengaluru.

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Mr Farook vs MLA Sampangi @ Kolar - story trail

10/29/11 05:51 - silkboard

This is an interesting one from Lokayukta's list. Not sure if all of you remember the case of Kolar MLA caught taking bribe. The story here is different from Land conversions or bloated tenders. read the trail

The Hindu, Jan 30, 2009 - KGF MLA caught after 'accepting' bribe (link)

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Prostitution in Bangalore CITY - on the rise?

10/28/11 18:12 - ranjith86

I wonder how are we all silent about this sensitive topic, Call girls / gigolos are in raise in bangalore, and speaking of which I am a victim of it too, indirectly I must say, My story goes this way;

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Karnataka, Corruption and Numbers

10/27/11 07:05 - silkboard

A book to hold together numbers regarding corruption in Karnataka. Thanks to Lokayukta and the likes, there are a good number of corruption related cases against high profile politicians in courts of Karnataka. Since actual investigations are on, fir the first time, we are seeing a lot of numbers being put to this "elephant in the room" called corruption.

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Bengaluru Ministers & Corruption - in numbers

10/27/11 04:06 - silkboard

With so many high profile guys in jail, or at the door steps, one good thing that I see is that Media is becoming more and more comfortable carrying numbers in their reports on corruption. What we knew and heard through the 'grapevine', now has concrete numbers. But this is probably because of well documented and researched Lokayukta reports.

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Bus Breakdowns Plaguing BMTC

10/26/11 07:03 - sanjayv

My 25 km one way daily commute for the past 10 months has meant covering a swathe of Bangalore's suburuban areas.  A common observation during this time has been seeing 2-3 BMTC buses broken down every day.  This includes buses across the spectrum.  Ordinary buses ranging from old to the relatively new JNNURM ones, Janti Vahanas (trailer buses), Volvos, Marco Polos etc.

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Pre-announcing upcoming projects - contact us if interested

10/23/11 07:34 - silkboard

On behalf of Praja RAAG, wanted to pre-announce a few projects in the area of public transportation (most popular subject here) that are on the anvil. We will take a couple of these forward depending on interest levels and availability of enthusiastic individuals who have been driving such projects.

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