October 2010

The de-notification racket

9 October 2010 - 5:08pm — murali772

On February 5, 2010, ABIDe had written to the CM, anticipating problems likely to arise from the slew of denotification orders issued by the urban development department. It had termed these denotifications as ‘non-transparent’. The letter had also recommended that “the ad hoc denotification of notified property be stopped completely.

Limited stop volvos to ITPL

8 October 2010 - 12:01pm — Anithasunil

The idea of having limited stop buses for routes such as Banashankari - ITPL has been discussed a lot in Praja. I have a new suggestion for the same.

Bangalore Meter Jam (say no to Autos)

8 October 2010 - 1:57pm — bansal

Start: 12 Oct 2010

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

BBMP systematically encouraged illegal buildings

8 October 2010 - 1:34am — kbsyed61

Source - Cititen Matters:

New scam brewing at BBMP, their infra website, and a simple advice

7 October 2010 - 9:21am — silkboard

Recent reports in local dailies suggest that there may have been bogus or excess-spend projects to swindle money at BBMP. Apparently, some works were carried out without following all procedures, and good number of such projects involved road digging or similar work along the Metro corridor (where one would assume Metro itself would have taken up such work). Anyway, nothing new there.

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