December 2012

Risks of Entrepreneurship in Bangalore

13 December 2012 - 5:49pm — idontspam

This is how small business is encouraged in Bangalore. The world needs to see how we encourage people to do business & create jobs. And if you thought this was a one off case, talk to any small business owner about how many people come to their doorstep & feel entitled to take money from them without any compunction.

Videos on Garbage Recycling Technologies

12 December 2012 - 11:18am — psaram42

Handling the normal house hold garbage is not a herculian task as it is made out to be in our city of Bangalore. If one looks at how the problem is being tackled at various cities of the world we can be relived by the realization that it not that herculian after all!

BRT with bike rentals!

12 December 2012 - 8:39am — srinidhi

Hindu carried a full page article on Sunday 9th Dec about cycling and its usage all over India. A very interesting article in there was about the Delhi BRT system and the bike rental program that has been setup along with it..

Extortion - the three way squeeze on street vendors & hawkers

12 December 2012 - 8:22am — silkboard

Hope you all read about the BBMP councillor extorting Rs 15000 / month from an eatery at Kalasipalya. Here is the news report in DH. I cross checked to find same version in Hindu also, so its not a one off tabloid type story:

CRS - Minutes of Nov 17th Meeting (Shared by PS, IDD) !

11 December 2012 - 9:21pm — kbsyed61

Dear Prajagale,

I would like to share the minutes of the meeting held under the chairmanship of Dr. Amita Prasad, IAS, Principal Secretary, UDD to examine the RITES report on "Implementation of Commuter Rail Service in Banaglore.

Thanks to Dr. Rajkumar Khatri, IAS, for sharing this meeting minutes with me in response to my email request.