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Screening of the documentary - Water and a City

6 Mar 2010 16:30
Asia/Calcutta
Water

 Screening of the documentary - Water and a City by filmmaker Swati Dandekar

Date: March 6th 2010

Time: 4:30 pm

 

Centre for Education and Documentation

No. 7, 8th Main , 3rd phase
Domlur 2nd Stage
Bangalore – 560071

Map to CED (PDF)

Skype Meeting - Plans for April Bus Day support

BusPublic Transport
9 Mar 2010
Asia/Calcutta

The Bus Day is an interesting event that presents wonderful opportunity for communities like PRAJA to grab and show case their concern and willingness to take 2 steps forward.

April Bus Day - date changed to 7th

BusPublic Transport
7 Apr 2010
Asia/Calcutta

Can we try something different this time? Get celebrities in? Request some radio channels to publicize the event?

Watch for and join some planing meetings prior to this Bus Day. If you been watching so far, BMTC is here to help, listen and act. Use Bus Day as the medium to give constructive feedback.

Take the Bus, its your city, and your environment.

March 4 Bus Day - New shuttles - Bagmane, Indiranagar, Domlur, Koramangala

BusPublic Transport

BMTC is announcing new local shuttle routes for March 4 Bus Day. Instead of smaller multiple local feeder loops, we have a largish loop covering Indiranagar, Domlur and Koramangala. Frequency promised is 10 minutes, so that will help.

BTRAC, it is 2010 - report card for Traffic?

Traffic

BTRAC-2010, does the phrase ring a bell? It is a Rs 350 crore (max) worth project funded 2006 through 2010 to reduce congestion and better manage traffic in the city.

Compound wall crack due to neighbour' s borewell digging - issued resolved

Governance

Crack in the compound wall issue seems to be resolved, temporarily.

Other RTI + Lok Ayuktha files, will have be be followed up in due course.

Another huge grey area seems to be that very few citizens are aware of permissions that are / are not needed before a borewell can be sunk. The 'consultant's digging the borewell of course make all the rules up...!

Land Acquisition for Metro UG Stretch - expect more delays?

Metro RailPublic Transport

Just noticed the numbers for land acquisition in the Feb Newsletter

UG NS Stretch - Proposed: 14, Possession Taken: 8, Demolished: 7

UG EW Stretch - Proposed: 129, Possession Taken:0 (!), Demolished: 0 (!).

Analyzing Karnataka's Census data

Governance

Come 2011, and we will have our once in a decade census done. If the projections prove right (http://censusindia.gov.in...), then Karnataka would be pegged at ~ 5.94 crore people.

Commuter / Local Trains for Bangalore from March

Commuter RailPublic Transport

Finally KH Muniyappa, union minister of state for railways, announced that the South Western Railway’s train services from the city to Devanahalli will commence in March 2010 as per schedule. He said on Saturday that train services to Anekal would also start
by March

Railway Budget Disappointing for Karnataka

Commuter RailPublic Transport

Rail Budget 2010-11 from the outset looks good for Karnataka, its  good job done by Mamtha & K H Muniyappa as Window Dressing for Karnataka. PPP model is no finalised & will require Cabinet approval, so nothing will come in next 1-2 years on this.

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