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BIAL Updates

4 September 2007 - 7:13am — tsubba

Despite major mid term course revisions, BIAL will open for commercial flights on March 30, 2008. Three days before schedule. Now only 15% of the work is pending.

Raju Narayanaswamy One subtle twist in a local district collector’s official probe report and T U Kuruvila, Kerala’s land scam-tainted public works minister, could probably have hung on in office — not felled the way he was, today. But the Collector was Raju Narayanaswamy. And that is saying a lot in Kerala.

Roads and Traffic Sense - To be taught to children at school level

3 September 2007 - 11:28pm — Vasanth

Today, major problem everyone in Bangalore and even other metros people are facing is Traffic Problem. Why this is a problem - Mainly because of lack of discipline among drivers and even pedestrians. Why - because no proper knowledge and education about traffic.

Your property tax for 2005 ...

3 September 2007 - 2:40pm — silkboard

... is due! Spotted an interesting BBMP tender that tells us that you could very soon find letters like that in mail.

"BBMP requires services ... to extract data, print Demand/Collection/Balance notices of owners of the Properties in BBMP area ... for the fiscal year 2005"

Further details of scope of this work tells you a bit about the level of computerization at BBMP's end:

Automatic, but not quite

3 September 2007 - 2:09pm — silkboard

I say good job BESCOM as far as automation is concerned. Those hand-helds to instantly print out your monthly electricity bill, and these automatic payment accepting machines.

NICE Agreement Annulled

30 August 2007 - 6:52pm — tsubba

This just in. Just when things were getting boring, Star of Mysore is reporting... Bangalore, Aug. 30 (OSR) - In a far-reaching decision this morning the Sate coalition Cabinet has annulled the agreement which it had entered into in 1995 with the Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (NICE).

Parthenium

29 August 2007 - 5:31pm — karthink

Hello all, I am a resident of Jayanagar 4th T block. There is a site near my house where a lot of parthenium has grown. As this weed is a very harmful and environmental unfriendly, I wanted the BBMP guys to clean up. But even after several complaints (thru phone calls on the number 22975760)they have not done anything.

Minority Biased Junctions

29 August 2007 - 2:41pm — rajatbhatla

About 4 years ago, Bangalore got its spanking new 200 ft wide double laned with 40 feet service lanes, Outer Ring road...

One would drive up here to break free from the traffic snarls elsewhere in the city...and check if their spanky investments still worked at high speeds.

Mostly worked fine, until a small hitch started showing up first little, then some more... and these days in full measure...

Gathering pace

29 August 2007 - 10:23am — shas3n

Here is an interesting article from Frontline that gives an overview of developmental situation in Bangalore.

It talks about future plans for many organisations like BMTC.

Some excerpts.

Shops and parking - This is how it begins

28 August 2007 - 1:31pm — silkboard

Recently, while passing through Kundalahalli gate, I noticed that some shops had suddenly sprung up on an empty plot. Going by what I understand of BBMP bylaws, the construction does seem illegal. These shops are literally standing on the footpath, and bang on a major intersection. Of course, there is no place to park bikes or cars here. So once they start doing business, customers' vehicles could block some serious traffic (intersection of Varthur Road and Brookfield main road leading to ITPL).