BBMP, state government out of sync over road-widening

01/14/10 04:01 - vaishvittal

Confusion continues to loom over the status of road widening projects in Bengaluru. Recent media reports suggested that all road widening projects in the city were put on hold, after a statement made by Transport Minister R Ashoka. The Minister later backtracked saying that work on only the Mysore Road-Central Silk Board corridor will be stalled.

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Poster and Publicity Material for 'Take the Bus' Campaign

01/13/10 17:11 - kbsyed61

BMTC and GOK has announced that the next Bus Day will be observed on March 4, 2010.

Here are smaples of posters available for downloads. Click on the files listed below. These can be used:

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Local Train For Twin City Hubli-Dharwad

01/13/10 12:51 - Sanjeev

As Hubli & Dharwad twin city is developing with lot  of efforts on the following front:
1. High Court Bench at Dharwad
2. S W R Headquarter
3. Karnataka University at Dharwad
4. K I M S Hubli
5. Agricultural University at Dharwad
7. BVB Engineering College, Hubli
8. SDM Medical / Dental / Engineering college at Dharwad

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JnNURM - boon or curse?

01/13/10 09:22 - murali772

The Union urban development ministry has pulled up the state government for failing to implement reforms it had agreed to bring in while receiving funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for various developmental project in Bengaluru and Mysore.

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Kadugodi ROB meet

01/13/10 08:35 - sanjayv

 Meet at Kadugodi rail over bridge location. Time: 11 AM

• Take pics of work progress and post
• Finalize the RTI application
• Plan meeting local MLA or SWR officials

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Spam Control Feature

01/13/10 07:39 - tech

Lately Praja has been flooded with spam posts from people promoting irrelevant products and services. There have been times when the admins/moderators have had to clean up as many as 10 posts in a day. In view of this we have put together a filtration feature.

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Training for BBMP corporatorship aspirants

01/13/10 02:08 - murali772

Urban Research Centre (URC) is a registered society, a non-profit organization – action-researching on decentralization, governance, globalization and environment. Urban Research Centre (URC) is working in the Coastal cities, Mangalore and Udupi towns with Civil society, Corporators (elected representatives) and the Urban local governments on participatory governance.

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Metro - try get it right the first time!

01/13/10 00:03 - srinidhi

 As we know there is an 'Indian' way of doing everything!

We never seem to follow lanes or queues..even our RJ's for traffic updates use words like 'nuggisokke aagthillava'! (are you not able to squeeze throuhg?)

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On Feb 4th, will you be taking the Bus to work?

01/11/10 07:58 - kbsyed61

* Yes - I take the bus daily to the work * Yes - I will take the bus on Feb 4th * No

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Need route info before Bus Day

01/11/10 02:36 - silkboard

This is from last weekend. Convinced my family to take a Vajra to go across town from Whitefield to Mahalakshmi Layout. I told them don't worry, there are buses (333Z, 335EP, 335T) that go in that direction. We decided we will leave around 10 AM.

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