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08/25/08 15:55 - Vasanth
India is a growing economy with emerging intelligent and talented people who are rendering their services mostly to the west either directly staying there or offline from India, particularly Bangalore. Lot of Bangalore IT companies develop software for American, UK or German insurance companies. But, our own country is deprived of these kind of insurance to all. People who work in IT are covered by their companies. Government employees are covered by some schemes or the other. Few factories are covered by CGHS scheme. person Vasanth's post | forum 2 Comments | Read More
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Bangalore Traffic Woes, avoid ad hoc solutions please! 08/25/08 09:18 - psaram42
Bangalore, keeping in pace with other cities in the world, has grown exponentially over the past half a century. The Key question while planning traffic solutions for such a growing city obviously would be “how to account for possible future growth?” Bangalore has a very good example in the Kempe Gouda Towers. Kempe Gouda had in his wisdom estimated the boundaries of Bangalore and built the Towers known after him. person psaram42's post | forum 11 Comments | Read More
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08/25/08 08:58 - murali772
THE Right to Information Act makes it obligatory on the part of the Government to educate the public about RTI. By this time the Central and State Governments should have published user guides to help citizens use RTI effectively. Now after three years, there is talk of introducing RTI in the school syllabus. For more, click on: Muralidhar Rao person murali772's post | Read More |
08/24/08 03:27 - kbsyed61
Respected Prajagale, The BIAL-RTI efforts workgroup is working in the back preparing the ground for filing the applications. In fact today we had the first Telephonic Meeting to discuss the further actions on this front. As of now, this is the status on BIAL-RTI efforts (see original post): person kbsyed61's post | forum 8 Comments | Read More
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Living example - city infrastructure development 08/25/08 04:07 - Ravi_D
A successful unique story in analysing, planning, developing and executing a city development plan of sorts. This exercise has to be one very good example to come out in the modern times... The Beijing Olympics 2008, and related infrastructure development. Here is the Beijing Olympic Action Plan. And to highlight the achievement, here is an extract from Section I.4. person Ravi_D's post | Read More |
08/24/08 01:43 - tsubba
Consultant appointed for Metro Phase II Anil Kumar Sastry, The Hindu Electronics City-Yelahanka, Indiranagar-Whitefield link to be important routes under second phase BMRCL confident of completing the work under first phase by 2011 person tsubba's post | forum 18 Comments | Read More
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NHAI: Hebbal - Yelahanka - BIAL 08/23/08 23:36 - tsubbaWork on road to BIA from Nov DH News Service, Bangalore Work on the much awaited six-lane elevated road between Hebbal and Yelahanka bypass to facilitate smooth traffic to and from the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) will start from November this year. person tsubba's post | forum 8 Comments | Read More
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Bangalore Non-IT Industries and Economy 08/23/08 15:07 - tsubbaKASSIA proposes varsity for small enterprises The Hindu. To create a trained and skilled workforce for small-scale industries, the Karnataka Small Scale Industries’ Association (KASSIA) has suggested to the State Government to establish micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) university on the lines of agricultural university. person tsubba's post | forum 1 Comment | Read More |
CAF PIL on Bangalore Master Plan 2015 08/24/08 13:27 - admin123
Vijayan Menon, resident Bangalorean and an urban planning citizen enthusiast, forwards us the documents related to the Public Interest Litigation(PIL) filed by the Citizens Action Forum(CAF), the Koramangala Initiative(KI) and several residents of Bangalore, challenging BDA's Draft Revised Master Plan - 2015. Also included is the Report of the Advisory Committee on the Draft Revised Master Plan -2015, also called the PSS Thomas Committee Report, which was set up to analyse citizens feedback.
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08/22/08 10:42 - murali772
Voices From The Waters is a water film festival in Bangalore, India, currently in its third edition. The first edition of the festival was held in 2005 followed by the second in 2007. person murali772's post | Read More |
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