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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.

JnNURM - boon or curse?

13 January 2010 - 2:52pm — murali772

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.

Training for BBMP corporatorship aspirants

13 January 2010 - 7:38am — murali772

Start: 27 Jan 2010 09:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

Urban Research Centre (URC) is a registered society, a non-profit organization – action-researching on decentralization, governance, globalization and environment. Urban Research Centre (URC) is working in the Coastal cities, Mangalore and Udupi towns with Civil society, Corporators (elected representatives) and the Urban local governments on participatory governance.

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War memorial - some facts and questions

9 January 2010 - 9:25pm — prajasevaka

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

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

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

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.

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

6 January 2010 - 9:03am — psaram42

“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.

Exemplary deed @ Kollegal

31 December 2009 - 12:18pm — murali772

Nothing could have made a better Christmas gift from Santa for jumbos! A crucial corridor used by more than a thousand elephants in Kollegal was purchased by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and transferred to the state government on Thursday.

Why Tata still doesn’t get it?

30 December 2009 - 3:26pm — murali772

Ratan Tata had this to say on the Singur debacle: “More often than not, conflicts related to land are promoted by individuals who do not belong to that area, but who have other political motives.” Quite so, but this, interestingly enough, was the exact position taken by British planters to stop Mahatma Gandhi’s first mass movement in India, the anti-indigo cultivation

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