Project update - Namma Railu reaches Vidhana Soudha
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(Praja and CiSTUP members wait at Vidhana Soudha on September 23rd before the meeting. From left to right, Sanjeev V Dyamannavar (Praja), Prof T G Sitharam (CiSTUP), Capt Naveen Chandra (Praja), and Sathya Sankaran (Praja).)
Commuter Rail Meeting with Chief Secretary
The biggest bit of news to record during September was the progress on the Namma Railu front - the meeting called by Chief Secretary, Mr S V Ranganath, on Sept 23rd, who, at the end of the meeting, stated that he would meet with the Chairman Railway Board on his next trip to Delhi and take the board chairman along to meet the Cabinet Secretary and also Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, as also Mr K Kasturirangan, Member Planning Commission. Namma Railu project has certainly taken PRAJA into the reckoning of the top level bureaucracy in the state, the Railways, and even beyond. And, of coyurse, the biggest achievement will be if Namma Railu starts chugging along soon.
Parking Enforcement - Bringing some sense to ever growing traffic
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Another area that received lot of attention in the month was "Parking enforcement & restraining traffic growth". As a part of this, a PRAJA team met Mr Praveen Sood, the dynamic Addl Commr of Police (Traffic) to pick his fertile brains in the matter. What is now proposed is to team up with a few RWA's and Business District associations to come up with a comprehensive traffic & parking management plan for their respective areas.
Parking enforcement to restrain traffic growth
Hot on the trails of BMTC
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Delhi's bus privatization experiment
TTMCs not what-they-are-claimed-be
Motorcycles kill more than BMTC buses
Volvos doing well
No month, nay week, nay day, can be complete without some comment or the other on the BMTC and public bus transport services. September was no exception; in fact, provided more than its share. Follow BMTC discussions via this Praja tracker.
Concerns for PED infrastructure in the city
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Facilities - OMR & CMH Roads
Pedestrian amenities, rather lack of it, is of serious concern to PRAJAgalu. That got reflected this month also.
Cycle clubs
Bike lanes and tree lines frmo BBMP
KMF society and plastic-materials
The green activists amongst the PRAJAgalu pitched in with their bit - on cycling and trees, plastics
Passport seva kendra - experience
The new "passsport seva kendra" operations, through a tie-up between MEA and TCS, appears to have stabilised and came in for some praise.
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