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No park in Social amenities site but only parking!

28 January 2013 - 7:01pm — psaram42

The present Jeevan Bima Nagar stands on the 460 acres land allotted by BDA to Life Insurance Corporation housing society way back in 1966. LIC colony as it is called now has model houses built and distributed by LIC of India to policy holders. Each applicant had to give a deposit of Rs10000/- along with application.

Discussions on Establishing Ward Committees in all 198 Wards in Bangalore

17 January 2013 - 11:52am — psaram42

We saw Vidyadhar Taniappa, Member Janaagraha, who writes in DNA and TOI on the dais, actively running around.

Scientific Land fills

5 January 2013 - 3:02pm — psaram42

To days TOI article pertaining to the Bangalore garbage crisis by Asha Rai was interesting as always.

Confederation of Indian Industries [CII] conference at Lalith Ashok

19 December 2012 - 8:56pm — psaram42

The day long conference started with the welcome address by Mr. L Krishnan, Chairman CII Karnataka State Council. The irony of rapid urbanization according to him was that we expect different results with identical actions. The vehicles to people ratio has increased rapidly which is holding the environment to ransom. Some disturbing news does make us sit up and think.

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!

New 40mld Cauvery Water 4th stage 2nd phase

10 December 2012 - 5:10pm — psaram42

This new Cauvery water line laying is completed. To day there was a ceremony organized by MLA Raghu in his constituency. This water tank is situated on the Suranjandas road. Click here [1]

A lecture on promoting good governance

9 December 2012 - 4:42pm — psaram42

Public Affairs Centre click [1] has been promoting good governance since 1994 through

A welcome Initiative by Mr. Manivannan BESCOM MD

3 December 2012 - 11:13am — psaram42

In Bangalore Trees pruning by BESCOM task force is a familiar sight. Often the sore point is “Who should clear the debris” I was delighted and impressed while reading to day’s Bangalore Mirror article. Below is an excerpt of the same:-

Relevance of Shivaji and Maharashtra

30 November 2012 - 2:41pm — psaram42

Shivaji was a chieftain in the Pune area in Aurangzeb’s time. Aurangzeb as one can recall, was the last of mogul emperors whom the English defeated to take over the country. For the Wikipedia article click here [1]

Gated communities and town planning

28 November 2012 - 11:11am — psaram42

Living in Indiranagar or any other BDA locality in Bangalore is like living in wilderness devoid an identity. One cannot blame BDA entirely for this a seeming short sightedness. After all engineers are supposed to put to practice the engineering what they have learnt by rote.

Sustainable economic practices for a healthy democracy

24 November 2012 - 12:04pm — psaram42

The meet started at 6:00 PM sharp with the following four on the dais:-

1. Gautam Padmanabhan CEO westlands,

2. Rev Father Dr. Vijay Kumar Prabhu Pricipal, St. Josephs College of Commers

Face to Face meet with BBMP Joint Commissioner on Garbage issue

23 October 2012 - 8:55am — psaram42

The Joint Commissioner Sri Venkateshappa KAS along with Mr. PM John executive Engineer were held up at Mandur. As a result the meet started an hour late. Mr. A Ravindra Advisor Urban Affairs to CM Karnataka chaired the session along with Sri Ramamurthy Secretary, CCRWA and Sri Venkateshappa.

Daily TOI coverage on Garbage Crisis “The Muck stops here”

14 September 2012 - 1:45pm — psaram42

TOI has a daily coverage of the Garbage crisis for the past 23 days. To day’s TOI have 2 articles relating to Bangalore Garbage crisis.

The muck stops here Day 24 article by Sunita Rao
BSY Ananthkumar Tug of war

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Dry vs Oil type Power Transformers

12 September 2012 - 2:51pm — psaram42

To minimize the iron loss during transmission, power needs to be transmitted at a very high voltage. Series of transformers reduce the voltage of the electricity supplied by the towers to a level suitable for use by the electric equipment in the city [220 domestic / 440 Industry].

Prakash Belwadi on Bangalore Garbage crisis

8 September 2012 - 3:49pm — psaram42

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