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Food coupons - finally

HCL Infosystems' led consortium with Accor Services and Virgo Softech has bagged a contract from Madhya Pradesh government for implementing food coupon-based targeted public distribution systems (PDS) in the state.

The steeply sloping playing field

Economy

The official demand for returning the money paid by the government telecom arm, BSNL, for third-generation (3G) spectrum (turned down, for now, by the Union finance ministry) is an illustration of why the state should be kept well away from running a business — it is not possible to be both player and umpire.

Crushing bus door

Bus

A 21-year-old man was almost crushed to death when the hydraulic doors of a BMTC bus closed in on him on Sunday evening. Prannoy David Rao hurt his shoulders and chest but what hurt more was the reaction of those around: The bus conductor yelled at him and some passengers guffawed at his plight instead of rescuing him.

Straddling Bus

This is a post by Mr. Sunil of Bangalore City Connect.

K.V.Pathy

 

NHAI begins work on expressway to BIA

Source - Deccan Herald
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/85944/nhai-begins-work-expressway-bia.html

Deccan Herald carried a news report that NHAI is awarding the BAI expressway to Navyug Constructions.

Shrines on public spaces to go

Urban DevelopmentGovernance

In a courageous move, the Karnataka government has decided to crack down on unauthorized religious shrines, including temples, churches, mosques and gurdwaras, which encroach upon roads, parks, storm water drains and other public places.

Madiwala Ayyappa Temple underpass opened

 I am happy to see the Madiwala Ayyappa Temple underpass is opened for public from today 02-Aug-2010. I had indicated the start date in my Prajabytes here http://praja.in/en/statuses/259/ it was on 24-May-2010. Excellent, its almost complete in period of 9 weeks. I have not seen the completed work.

Covering of storm water drains: Useless and detrimental

Environment

I've noticed a lot of activity in our locality with the authorities covering the storm water drains in front of houses. These drains for more than 20 years, carried only storm water when it rained and otherwise were quite dry. On an average, they are about 1 1/2 feet wide and about 1 1/2 feet deep.

Where is India headed ?

China has now surpassed Japan as the No.2 economy in the world - India, whose economy was 80% of China's in 1990, is now a mere 25% of China's.

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