June 2013

V and U needed for metro?

8 June 2013 - 7:44am — srinidhi

Hindu today carried a front page news item about the metro allignment on the Byp PH II extension to Whitefield. It was more a report based on renewed outcry from certain sections of public..below is the map of contention from the paper:

Safety of old age people

8 June 2013 - 9:39pm — hemaraj

I would like to share my todays experience.

A courier boy came to deliver.

today these days being very unsafe to invite any strangers inside, I usually take any such things to verify through a window and take delivery through it.

I was suspisious on the courier on few counts

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CAG report on allotment of sites by BDA - action take so far?

7 June 2013 - 8:27am — silkboard

I notice that there is a lot of halla in newspapers this morning on a new CAG report on financial performance of BBMP. This reminded me of the other report release last year on "Denotification of land by Government and Allotment of sites by BDA". embedding the report through scribd below.

How to make footpaths free of transformers - your suggestions

5 June 2013 - 8:32am — silkboard

Guys, BESCOM is seeking ideas on how to make Bangalore footpaths free of transformers. I think newspaper ads are out today. Was wondering if we can collect some ideas via this post and share with BESCOM.

update: First up, a list of previous posts on the subject, as this is not new.

Now that rains have saved Bangalore, forget about it?

4 June 2013 - 9:16am — silkboard

We came "this" close to going dry this summer. How close? Don't really know, but the word is that if rains had arrived 10 days later, we would have hit that point. But now that rains are here, newspapers, BWSSB, KNNL (Neeravari Nigam) will all move on and wait for a crisis to approach next year or year after depending on when we would have the next monsoon shortfall.

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