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BWSSB Ultrosonic Flow meters What can they do?

20 June 2010 - 9:15pm — psaram42

I saw this leak presumably Cauvery water, during my usual morning walk to day at about 6:15 AM. Instead of picking up a telephone and putting in my complaint at some BBMP ward office I thought of putting a blog entry on Praja. The BWSSB has installed Ultrasonic flow meters all around Bangalore for detecting pilferage and or leakages.

Picture 1. The Ultrosonic Flow meter installed at 80 ft Road

I am not sure whether these kinds of leakages can be detected let alone the exact location identified.

Picture 2. The Drinking Water Pipe on 80 Ft Road Indiranagar Laid beneath the foot path in front of the BSNL Telephone Exchange

Picture 3. The Water gushing at the 12th main 100 ft road Junction at Indiranagar

Apply chennai's story in Bangalore ?

19 June 2010 - 10:30pm — thampan

Just read this blog entry on "Indian Liberals and Colour Pictures" by Amit Verma . Among other things, he talks about how colour pictures were used to transform chennai roads.

Excerpt : (Emphasis mine)

Cherubal works as a coordinator at Chennai City Connect, and holds the view that politicians and bureaucrats, sometimes caricatured as the villains in the piece by dogmatic liberals, are often on our side, and agree with us about the nature of the problems. But giving them abstract ideas about what to do is pointless, for they don’t have the bandwidth to take them further. The only effective approach is two-pronged: One, show them case studies to demonstrate that our solutions have worked elegantly elsewhere; Two, give them a detailed road-map of how to implement the solution.

PUPs: Alternative Approach to Governance Reforms

18 June 2010 - 9:26pm — pdk

Interesting story of an alternative vision of reform in government departments, from Tamil Nadu:

Our Worshipfull Corporaters

18 June 2010 - 1:22pm — psaram42

Shri. S.K.Nataraj, Worshipful Mayor , No. 144, 12th Cross,3rd Main, Sarakki Grama, Bangalore-560078 Mobile : 9845013157

United Way of Bengaluru to hold Corporate Quiz Challenge 2010 on June 26, 2010

17 June 2010 - 5:11pm — Manoj Joshi

Start: 17 Jun 2010 17:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

            United Way of Bengaluru to hold Corporate Quiz Challenge 2010 on June 26, 2010
            QuizCraft (of KBC fame) to conduct the competition with Charu Sharma as the quiz master
            Proceeds to support corrective eye surgeries of underprivileged adults and children

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ABIDe report on water, wasterwater and sanitation

17 June 2010 - 1:49am — n

is here (cannot attach file as the size is greater by 0.4 MB than the limit on praja). Highlights / comments below.

Double Decker Intercity Train between Bangalore to Mysore

15 June 2010 - 4:55pm — Sanjeev

SWR is planning to introduce the double decker Train between Bangalore to Mysore once the coaches are made available from Rail Coach Factory (RCF) in Kapurthala to increase the passenger capacity.

Air-conditioned double-decker coach are running on trials on the Delhi-Moradabad section a few months ago

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/double-seats-twice-fun-735

This should help passenger travelling between Mysore to Bangalore and catching flight at BIAL, by extending these trains upto BIAL. Trumpet Loop / Terminal of BIAL building.

Routes introduced after February 2010

15 June 2010 - 2:10pm — ss87

Following routes came into existence after the first bus day in Bangalore City by BMTC

Bus Day - need an anchor from Praja side

15 June 2010 - 12:58am — admin

Few members continue to work in their own ways to support BMTC on Bus Day. But after the first few Bus Days, we have missed an "anchor" from Praja community side who could spend time with BMTC (via phone, email or meetings) to get details on next Bus Day, as well as pass our feedback and suggestions.

Calling for a Bus Day anchor from Praja communtiy side. Job description and perks if you will:

Get to represent all of us (Praja members) at BMTC. Get a real opportunity to understand public transportation systems and issues.
If needed, speak to the media to convey summary of our discussions and suggestions here.
Get your own special "praja.in" email id.
Control and Manage the Bus Day corner on this web-site

This won't be a job for life or anything like that, can rotate between multiple people as well if groups of people want to do this on a shared basis.

Leave a comment here to reply (that's the true Praja way, open and public), or drop us an email (admin at praja dot in) if you would be interested.

A perfect Bus Day this time, almost!

14 June 2010 - 11:11pm — silkboard

It certainly got better for me this time. Can't take the bus regularly to work because of the last mile problem (HAL airport to CV Raman Nagar, no bus, no shuttles to rely upon). So the Bus Days for me are Auto rickshaw haggle days as well.

But not this time. 314AA, a new route, goes all the way from Whitefield to Bagmane Tech Park. Too good to be true, but I was at my bus stop at 8.25, and a 314AA showed up at 8.30 am (as was told and promised by 'someone'). Nice Marco Polo equipment, 12 Rs only all the way to Bagmane Tech Park, aha!

The route is an iffy one though. Airport Road is one thing, and Kaggadaspura Main Road another. Spent 20-25 minutes (!!) to cross the narrow stretch near Railway crossing, and reached Bagmane bus stand only at 9.40 am. Got off 314AA, and hopped on to the Tech Park shuttle which circles inside the campus every 5-10 minutes. 9.50, in my office. Route Map here, red dot is where the that 25 minute jam happened.

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