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SWR Plans improvements to Bengaluru City Railway Station

24 October 2010 - 5:49pm — kbsyed61

The Hindu carried a news item on newly renovated UN-RESERVED ticket counters at the city railway station. Along with that it also carried a news about SWR plan to improve the station facilities.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article843393.ece

Commuter Rail meeting with Chief Secretary, GoK

23 September 2010 - 5:53pm — idontspam

Meeting was called today by Chief Secretary SV Ranganath on request from V Madhu, Principal Secretary to GoK, Infrastructure Development Department to move forward commuter rail for Bangalore.

Namma Railu - Terms of Reference

15 September 2010 - 1:09pm — Naveen

At the end of the meeting on Namma Railu at IISc on 30-Aug-2010, we had agreed to work on a Terms of Reference (TOR) for raising a demand for DPR (Detailed Project Report) for Namma Railu.

[update] Revised TOR submitted to CiSTUP from Praja

Working group on railways - 11th 5-yr plan (2007–2012)

11 September 2010 - 2:54pm — Naveen

“Report of the working group on railway programmes for 11^th 5-year plan (2007–2012)” has the following salient points with regard to suburban rail. Due to file size, the entire report is not attached to this post.

Yeddyurappa will ride high-speed trains in China

10 September 2010 - 9:50am — idontspam

Your chief minister will soon be zooming away in the high-speed trains of Beijing

NammaRailu 2010 Roundtable - Press Release

8 September 2010 - 6:12pm — idontspam

Press Release

Monday, Aug 30, 2010: CiSTUP, IISc, and Praja.in organized a round table event, Namma Railu 2010 to discuss Commuter Rail System (CRS) as a mobility solution to enable growth of Bengaluru Metropolitan Region (BMR). The event was chaired by Dr A Ravindra, Advisor to the CM.

Namma Railu Round Table - Minutes of the meeting

30 August 2010 - 7:09pm — Naveen

Praja thanks all participants for making it to the meeting & sharing their opinions. Special thanks to Prof.Sitharam (Chairman, CiSTUP) & staff of CiSTUP for their hospitality & for graciously hosting the event.

PPP's of Indian Railways - A Report

24 August 2010 - 10:00pm — idontspam

Attached is a report on PPP projects of Indian Railways over the years. Thanks to CiSTUP for sharing this with/for Praja with permission from G Raghuram. Please do not redistribute without permission from authors as it may infringe copyrights. It makes a very interesting reading

Let me know what you think, after reading?

Thousand Cities - Growth Center Phenomenon!

24 August 2010 - 2:23am — kbsyed61

Namma Railu - Call to action report rightly places the empahsis of developing the towns around Bengaluru as Growth center. The same spirit has been articulated in today's editorial piece of Indian Express.

RTI response from SWR on Commuter Rail

13 August 2010 - 12:11pm — Rithesh

[Posting this on behalf of Ritesh who filed the RTI]

Attached with this blog is the response from SWR to the RTI queries posed on Commuter Rail for Bengaluru. If you have any further questions based on this response, leave them as comments here so we can include them in the next RTI to SWR.

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