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New Year, new contract for Whitefield Railway bridge

14 January 2010 - 9:33am — vaishvittal
Infrastructure

Responses to the new tenders issued by the South Western Railways for completion of the Whitefield Railway overbridge project will be opened in the third week of this month, says a top official at the Railways.

BBMP, state government out of sync over road-widening

14 January 2010 - 9:31am — vaishvittal

Confusion continues to loom over the status of road widening projects in Bengaluru. Recent media reports suggested that all road widening projects in the city were put on hold, after a statement made by Transport Minister R Ashoka. The Minister later backtracked saying that work on only the Mysore Road-Central Silk Board corridor will be stalled.

Local Train For Twin City Hubli-Dharwad

13 January 2010 - 6:21pm — Sanjeev
Commuter RailPublic Transport

As Hubli & Dharwad twin city is developing with lot  of efforts on the following front:
1. High Court Bench at Dharwad
2. S W R Headquarter
3. Karnataka University at Dharwad
4. K I M S Hubli
5. Agricultural University at Dharwad
7. BVB Engineering College, Hubli
8. SDM Medical / Dental / Engineering college at Dharwad

JnNURM - boon or curse?

13 January 2010 - 2:52pm — murali772
Urban DevelopmentEverything elseGovernance

The Union urban development ministry has pulled up the state government for failing to implement reforms it had agreed to bring in while receiving funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for various developmental project in Bengaluru and Mysore.

Spam Control Feature

13 January 2010 - 1:09pm — tech
Praja related

Lately Praja has been flooded with spam posts from people promoting irrelevant products and services. There have been times when the admins/moderators have had to clean up as many as 10 posts in a day. In view of this we have put together a filtration feature.

Metro - try get it right the first time!

13 January 2010 - 5:33am — srinidhi
Metro RailPublic Transport

 As we know there is an 'Indian' way of doing everything!

We never seem to follow lanes or queues..even our RJ's for traffic updates use words like 'nuggisokke aagthillava'! (are you not able to squeeze throuhg?)

Transforming Urban Transportation

10 January 2010 - 5:30pm — idontspam
Commuter RailPublic Transport

Sharing a video from India Economic Summit. Very interesting to note Om Prakash Agarwals introductory comments where he says - We are very good at putting standalone facilities but never have an integrated plan and connection with other related systems. Bangalore has been reliant on a one dimensional Bus system. This cannot scale.

War memorial - some facts and questions

9 January 2010 - 9:25pm — prajasevaka
EnvironmentEverything else

The state government is planning to build a war memorial in the park where Indra Gandhi Musical Fountain is situated. This is the park opposite the planetarium on Chowdiah Road. 

Questions about Bellandur Lake

9 January 2010 - 7:12pm — akhileshmak
EnvironmentLakesEverything else

hey u all users der pls reply.......i have 4 questions on bellandur lake it would be really good if you

RWH - One Solution

9 January 2010 - 9:56am — RKCHARI
Everything else

Today's DH says the response to BWSSB's RWH drive has been poor - only 200 out of over 100,000 homes required to install RWH has apparently opted for the BWSSB promoted RWH system.

One reason cited was that house owners were finding the process expensive. Residents' Welfare Associations have sought Bank loan facilities.

Stretcher cases and our money

7 January 2010 - 5:56pm — murali772
Everything else

It is an extraordinary system where an equipment manufacturer for the telecom industry turns sick and remains sick just as an epoch-making boom takes place in the sector. Lakhs of private units make losses and are unable to cope with the market; only, they don’t have an automatic tap in the public treasury to keep going that way.

BBMP elections - People's manifesto - Mobility

6 January 2010 - 6:24pm — murali772
Governance

A group of active citizens (via HU email list) has come forward to put up what they are calling the "Jana Pranalike" or "People's Manifesto" to be placed before the candidates/ parties contesting the forth-coming BBMP elections.

Indian Society can not be happy till its governance is fixed, fast.

6 January 2010 - 9:03am — psaram42
Everything elseGovernance

 “Gurcharan Das was the CEO of Procter & Gamble India and Vice President for Procter & Gamble Far East between 1985 and 1992. He was later Vice President and Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide.

Big10 - 5 things to build upon BMTC's direction-based rework

5 January 2010 - 11:28pm — silkboard
BusPublic Transport

What's your Bangalore Bus dream? I will tell you mine. Take local area bus to get to nearest Large bus stop in your sub-urb or locality. Or take your car to the Park And Ride Plaza in your sub-urb. Then change to a Big10. Dedicated lanes at places make sure you feel good about watching the cars wait in jams and chaos.

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