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BMTC Feeder service to City Railway Stations! 06/23/10 02:41 - kbsyed61
Deccan Herald carried a news item quoting BMTC about its plans to start a feeder service connecting BMTC Bus Stand and the City Railway Station. person kbsyed61's post | forum 17 Comments | Read More
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06/22/10 09:16 - pdk
There have been discussions here on JUSCO getting the Mysore contract. 24x7 supply has been noted as a major change that this contract will achieve. Now, JUSCO has been managing the water supply in Jamshedpur. Jamshedpur is also known as just "Tata", which is not surprising since the city was founded around the Tata Iron and Steel Works factory there. person pdk's post | forum 15 Comments | Read More
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Inputs to proposed Fire Safety Legislation 06/22/10 07:49 - deepakar
I'm posting this on behalf of Vivek Reddy of the BJP Legislative cell. Vivek is gathering inputs for a reform to the current Fire-safety laws and their enforcement. He was keen on getting inputs from Praja too. I had referred the following two threads to him. http://praja.in/en/projects/2010/03/12/fire-safety-project-bring-awareness-and-seriousness
http://praja.in/en/blog/ravi-d/2010/02/24/what-can-we-learn Further inputs will be appreciated * Who are the local experts on the area that could contribute to this activity? * Are you aware of some measures and best-practices adopted successfully in other countries? * Anyone who has knowledge of the law and can critique the current legislation?
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Rethinking road-widening - Tunnels? 06/22/10 01:01 - Transmogrifier
One of the core infrastructural issues we are facing is an inability of our arterial roads and highways to provide rapid cross-town access. Globally, city and highway planners recognize and create different infrastructure for highways and city roads. See Dr. Joglekar’s posts here for a succinct description of this problem plaguing most Indian cities. A simple schematic (full size image here)and an inventory of city highways reveals the problem.
Thru Highways:
Terminal Highways: person Transmogrifier's post | forum 10 Comments | Read More
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Presentation describing Open Data pilot 06/20/10 19:35 - silkboard
Here is a presentation describing the Open Data pilot proposal. Credits to IDS, Shekhar, Rithesh and Sreeram. We have been speaking with a few government officials for their participation in the pilot and expect to 1-3 confirmations ASAP. Personally, I find the proposal very exciting. There are parallels from UK/US to borrow from, but our government systems are not as digitized yet and not everyone is used to talking transparency using real data (citizens, media or governments), so the work involved should be unique and interesting. person silkboard's post | forum 1 Comment | Read More |
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BWSSB Ultrosonic Flow meters What can they do? 06/20/10 15:45 - psaram42
I saw this leak presumably Cauvery water, during my usual morning walk to day at about 6:15 AM. Instead of picking up a telephone and putting in my complaint at some BBMP ward office I thought of putting a blog entry on Praja. The BWSSB has installed Ultrasonic flow meters all around Bangalore for detecting pilferage and or leakages.
Picture 1. The Ultrosonic Flow meter installed at 80 ft Road I am not sure whether these kinds of leakages can be detected let alone the exact location identified.
Picture 2. The Drinking Water Pipe on 80 Ft Road Indiranagar Laid beneath the foot path in front of the BSNL Telephone Exchange
Picture 3. The Water gushing at the 12th main 100 ft road Junction at Indiranagar
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Apply chennai's story in Bangalore ? 06/19/10 17:00 - thampan
Just read this blog entry on "Indian Liberals and Colour Pictures" by Amit Verma . Among other things, he talks about how colour pictures were used to transform chennai roads. Excerpt : (Emphasis mine) Cherubal works as a coordinator at Chennai City Connect, and holds the view that politicians and bureaucrats, sometimes caricatured as the villains in the piece by dogmatic liberals, are often on our side, and agree with us about the nature of the problems. But giving them abstract ideas about what to do is pointless, for they don’t have the bandwidth to take them further. The only effective approach is two-pronged: One, show them case studies to demonstrate that our solutions have worked elegantly elsewhere; Two, give them a detailed road-map of how to implement the solution. person thampan's post | forum 2 Comments | Read More
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PUPs: Alternative Approach to Governance Reforms 06/18/10 15:56 - pdk
Interesting story of an alternative vision of reform in government departments, from Tamil Nadu: person pdk's post | forum 5 Comments | Read More
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06/18/10 07:52 - psaram42
Shri. S.K.Nataraj, Worshipful Mayor , No. 144, 12th Cross,3rd Main, Sarakki Grama, Bangalore-560078 Mobile : 9845013157
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United Way of Bengaluru to hold Corporate Quiz Challenge 2010 on June 26, 2010 06/17/10 11:41 - Manoj Joshi
United Way of Bengaluru to hold Corporate Quiz Challenge 2010 on June 26, 2010
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