September 2007

Inspired Folks

4 September 2007 - 4:20am — tsubba

Raju Narayanaswamy One subtle twist in a local district collector’s official probe report and T U Kuruvila, Kerala’s land scam-tainted public works minister, could probably have hung on in office — not felled the way he was, today. But the Collector was Raju Narayanaswamy. And that is saying a lot in Kerala.

Automatic, but not quite

3 September 2007 - 2:09pm — silkboard

I say good job BESCOM as far as automation is concerned. Those hand-helds to instantly print out your monthly electricity bill, and these automatic payment accepting machines.

Your property tax for 2005 ...

3 September 2007 - 2:40pm — silkboard

... is due! Spotted an interesting BBMP tender that tells us that you could very soon find letters like that in mail.

"BBMP requires services ... to extract data, print Demand/Collection/Balance notices of owners of the Properties in BBMP area ... for the fiscal year 2005"

Further details of scope of this work tells you a bit about the level of computerization at BBMP's end:

Roads and Traffic Sense - To be taught to children at school level

3 September 2007 - 11:28pm — Vasanth

Today, major problem everyone in Bangalore and even other metros people are facing is Traffic Problem. Why this is a problem - Mainly because of lack of discipline among drivers and even pedestrians. Why - because no proper knowledge and education about traffic.

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