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Madiwala Market - Footpath encroachment, parking at no-parking, not even 1 lane left for vehicles out of 3 lanes, illegal vendor

14 June 2011 - 12:18am — dvsquare

I am not a regular visitor in general of the madiwala sabji market and even don't ride/drive/walk through the madiwala market road.

About receipts in private schools

13 June 2011 - 5:42pm — Bheema.Upadhyaya

Today I have sent a query to Section Officer,education department. Matter is self-explanatory. Corruption is eberywhere.

Hello sir/madam,

Wouldn't PRAJA have been a better option for BTP?

12 June 2011 - 3:17pm — murali772

The Facebook page of the traffic police, set up two months ago, is a much-needed forum for Bangaloreans to bring the violator in uniform to book. More than 3,000 have already joined the page to share information and make evidence public. Many others are adding their comments.

RTO - Fountainhead of Traffic woes

10 June 2011 - 1:37pm — idontspam

five permits were issued in different names against a photo of a single person (by the RTO)

... It is hard to believe that such a thing happens in a city like Bangalore

6 new elevated roads from BDA

9 June 2011 - 11:26pm — silkboard

Few folks spotted a tender from BDA calling for pre-qualification of contractors for 6 elevated roads in the city.

Efficacy of RTI Act

6 June 2011 - 8:53pm — murali772

My repeated representations to the Police Commissioner, the Additional Commissioner-Traffic, as well as the Transport Commissioner, both written as well as oral, in the matter of strict enforcement of the M V Act, specifically with regard to display of vehicle registration number plates in English letterings/ Arabic numerals, as per prescribed standard, had all met with responses which essentia

Moral Policing just in the front of Actual police, Mr. Mirji, Is your effect over?

5 June 2011 - 11:36pm — dvsquare

Saturday evening, I was in Apollo hospital to collect my health check-up reports, the apollo hospital in front of Jyoti Nivas College, Koramangala. When I was coming out, what I saw was very sad. Moral policing by NSUI just in the front of City police, It was like police was supporting NSUI members (law breaker or members of taking-law-in-own-hands).

Developed or underdeveloped?

4 June 2011 - 5:01pm — E.R. Ramachandran

I met My friend Ace Political Expert ( APE) at the University Library who had come to return Abdul Kalam’s book ‘2020 – A Vision for the New Millennium ’ .

In his book, Dr. Kalam had predicted India would be a developed country by 2020.

Meeting the gang finally after so many years

4 June 2011 - 10:36am — santsub

Thanks for the meet

It was really very surreal to meet the praja gang (some of them) today in Bengaluru. I took a volvo bus to Old airport road and finally got to see the faces behind this success called praja.

Clock wise in the pic

Pranav
Sathya
me (Santosh)
Srinidhi

2011 census - Karnataka population data

2 June 2011 - 8:23pm — silkboard

Vinay mailed these over, provisional data on Karnataka from 2011 Census. Thought it would be worth sharing at this data hungry portal.

Somethings that caught my eye

Population density of Bangalore district, 2001: 2985, NOW? 4378

Any correlation here?

Bangalore too high on road air pollution?

2 June 2011 - 7:24am — silkboard

Delhi and Ahmedabad have already done it. Chandigarh too I beleive. But going purely by observations (can't find any published information from RTO), 40-50% of autorickshaws still seemed to be on petrol.

Towards more professionalism in governance

1 June 2011 - 8:13pm — murali772

While the number of persons paying online may have doubled this year - from 32,000 to 71,000 - many more may have logged on, and then logged off in frustration. Property owners in several parts of the city were in for a shock, when the computer refused to accept their payment, saying they had not paid the previous year’s tax.

Bus Stop design

30 May 2011 - 5:06pm — idontspam

DULT is on the lookout for suggestions on bus stop (shelter) design to suggest to relevant authorities. So please post as comments to this post & suggest what you wuld like to see in a bus stop shelter & also what additional features should a bus stop shelter have that will make it an attractive place.

Hat's off to BMTC conductor and Driver of Airport route in Bangalore

25 May 2011 - 8:38pm — srinivas.muddap...

I would like to sincerely Thank Conductor and Driver of the bus route No 9/8 Bus No. FA 1762 for their humanity and promptness in returning my bag that I forgot when I got down at Kammanahalli stop without collecting my bag which had my certificates and other valuables more than items my certificates was most important without which I would have struggled a lot.

Plan Approved by CMC but now BBMP only authority not CMC

24 May 2011 - 11:10pm — prutha

Hi All

I am searching for a flat to buy. The one in question is near Bomanahalli and came under CMC when construction began.

It still is under construction

Builder is not showing any approvals from bbmp.

he shows bbmp encumberance certificate till dec 2010.

what are the essential things i need to verify before going to buy the flat.

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