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Grade Separation with a “Magic” Box: reality and myths

Traffic

 The Magic Box is in the news especially in Bangalore for good and bad reasons.

Waste Water Management (WWM)

Water-carried wastes, in either solution or suspension form, that flows in sewage pipes from any house hold, commercial enterprise or an industry is called waste water in general. If it contains mainly human excreta and other organic matter it is called sewage.

Sanitary Drainage System the bane of Bangalore Lakes

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 The Sanitary Drainage System in a Mega city like Bombay, and our own Bangalore for an instance, is a source of persistent annoyance leading to exasperation.

Monthly Praja meet 20 June 2009

The meeting at Ravi_D’s office at Cunningham Rd was well attended by 15+ members including a couple of new Praja members.

It was good to see Pranav after his well deserved Holiday

He briefed us about a concrete road map for taking Praja forward. In a nut shell it is

The Black Gold of Bangalore

Water

 When we visited the KC Valley sewage water treatment plant on Monday the 15th June 2009 the one thought that struck me was that the product of this treatment plant is infact a black gold. We were told that this material is transported by trucks free of cost. obviously, I thought. 

BBMP Site needs to be user friendly

While complimenting the BBMP for their effort in computerizing their working on to the computer and the web, their web site needs attention urgently.

Ideas, Inventions and innovation

 Idea is a thought or conception which actually exists only in the mind. An idea when the thought is converted into an object, process or technique which displays an element of novelty becomes an invention. However, some inventions also represent a radical breakthrough in science or technology which extends the boundaries of human knowledge.

Maintenance of the storm water drainage system

When the boy Abhishake died BBMP attracted the ire of whole Bangalore. Subramanya some how was always in a fighting mood. He even put a case against the Loka Aukata himself, which attracted the wrath of the CM Mr. Yediyurappa.

India now In NFS Radar for US Fellowships

 To days TOI has reported the recognition accorded by US-Based National Science Foundation (NFS) for the following institutions in India:-

Importance of Bellandur Lake in the ecosystem of Bangalore

Lakes

Bellandur Lake is the biggest water body in Bangalore. In our metro we are depending heavily water bodies as wet lands in Nitrogen cycling. Bellandur Lake thus plays an important role in this cycle as a natural wetland. The three main streams of sewage are

Say no to corrupt Ministers

 Corruption has become endemic.

The changing face of Bengalooru lakes over a 9 year period - a study

 The latest version of Google earth has introduced a new feature of viewing the earth at different periods of time, starting with the year 2000. This allows us to see the changes on any part of the earth over a given period of time starting with the year 2000. I had listed in my earlier blog entry about 48 lakes as on May 15, 2009.

Importance of Lakes in and around Bengalooru for drinking water needs of the city

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 The city of Bengalooru had plenty of lakes earlier. Unfortunately due to lack of concern and unabashed greed, a lot of them are extinct now. Lakes are a very important aspect in the over all water management for a city like Bengalooru. (Some rivers were flowing through the city of Bangalore, I believe).

Revamp of the Bangalore civic body.

Everything else

 Recently we discussed about high dividers and roads being made “Double roads” in a forum. The truth is that, the roads are two way traffic roads by default, to start with. Normally two way roads are made one way to take care of increased traffic density. There is sometime a need to iterate to satisfy the public demands.

Monthly Praja Meet at Mr. Ravi's office in Cunningham Road

Pedestrian Infrastructure

 The meeting was at Mr. Ravi’s Office which is at Cunningham road. It started at scheduled hour. The following were presnt:

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