November 2008

The Vested Interest

8 November 2008 - 2:13pm — murali772

It is learnt that a whopping 12,000 appointments were made from 2004 to 2007 when Revanna was heading the Power ministry. These included assistant engineers, junior engineers, assistant executive engineers, assistant accounts officers, linemen, station supervisors, gangmen and others.

Multiple Bus Shelters - Another Route to Money ?

8 November 2008 - 3:22pm — Naveen

Hi All,

When the scheme to build bus-shelters of 'International Standards' was first floated a few years ago, many welcomed it as the standard of shelters in the city was pathetic, similar to cattle sheds.

I got challanned

8 November 2008 - 5:42pm — murali772

While I do appreciate the recent drive by the traffic authorities at enforcing rules, their letting off the regular violators like the autos, BMTC buses, call centre vehicles, etc, and for much bigger offences, makes them susceptible to charges of partiality, or other forces at play. Do they want to do something about that?

How about a Bangalore related Projects library?...

7 November 2008 - 10:01am — Ravi_D

Imagine a single portal (a book or pages of gyan) where we could log in and see:

> A chronicled listing of all projects related to Bangalore City

BBMP excempted from calling for tenders for storm water works

5 November 2008 - 10:39am — Rithesh

In a surprising development BBMP has been exempted from calling tenders for Storm Water Drain projects. A total of around 32 crores will be spent on these projects.

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