March 2008

Cauvery junction underpass - maintenance?

15 March 2008 - 12:00pm — silkboard

Now that the underpass is ready, its time to maintain it. So BBMP is asking for private parties to undertake maintenance of Cauvery junction underpass on BOT basis (tender here). Private parties keeping the underpass clean and painted etc while they make money displaying advertisements, that is fine. But after reading the document, I was confused as to what is the "build" part of BOT (build, operate transfer) here. I thought the underpass was ready. BBMP has mentioned a penalty clause for delay in construction:

Signature and lobbying Campaign for a smooth start to BIAL !

14 March 2008 - 8:27pm — kbsyed61

To All the Well Wishers of BIAL, Greetings !

It is time all those who wish to see BIAL starts functioning from May 11, to come to gether and start a campaign that could pull all the starings that we can, right from PM, Congress Party President, Governer, Civil Aviation ministry, DGCA, AAI, BIAL, BBMP, anybody and everybody that matters for BIAL.

Bangalore's Water: 38% is not "accounted" for!

14 March 2008 - 12:48pm — silkboard

Some newspaper reports (Hindu, ToI) this week mentioned that:

"... water supply to Bangalore is ... 694 million litres a day ... consumption which is actually billed ... around 429 million litres a day. The unaccounted for water comes to an alarming 38.2 per cent"

Wow, 38.2 percent (quoted from Hindu)! This would include two types of losses, 1) distribution loss: damages, leakages etc, and 2) water that is not getting billed. There is no clear mention or estimates of split between the two categories. Assuming distribution loss (leaks) to be 20% (double the 10% developed world aims for, google "Water Management Act US"), 18% of water could be going unbilled. That guesswork tells us that 1 in 6 of us, Bangalore citizens, isn't paying for his/her water.

Anand Nagar MagicBox

14 March 2008 - 5:05pm — Photoyogi

Yesterday while I drove down RT Nagar - Anandnagar I noticed that the service road is almost complete and the magic boxes are in place too. However I did find the boxes much narrow. Does any one have the sketch / model of this junction with dimentions? It looks to me like a bottle neck for Anandnagar residents.

New Building Byelaws

14 March 2008 - 7:26pm — tsubba

A technical committee comprising of town planners, structural engineers, architects, representatives from the Fire Force, Airports Authority of India, Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority (BMRDA), BDA and other service providers of the city is working on the revision of building bylaws for Bangalore based on the recommendations of the masterplan 2015. It will take atleast 3 months for the committee to work on the changes, then a draft will be sent to govt for approval. After this there is a month's time for citizens to file any objections. (Source: Building bylaws being revised, DH )

I think it might be useful to track this carefully.

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