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The Car. The Bus. The India

15 January 2010 - 11:32pm — bharatm

Summary: How long a country of billion can sustain with a culture of "My car My way"? Given the situation today, we will not be able to support even a extra car on the roads during peak hour? In this article, I will highlight few of the other problems other than traffic mess to highlight where we are heading.

Monthly PRAJA Meeting - Online

15 January 2010 - 6:12pm — kbsyed61

Start: 30 Jan 2010

End: 30 Jan 2010

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

It has been a while we had a Praja meeting. Let us start the new year with more enthusiasm than previous years.

It will be a ONLINE Meeting using SKYPE. Focus of the meeting would be on the upcoming event on Feb 4th 'Bus Day'.

Right to Information (RTI) act

14 January 2010 - 12:23pm — psaram42

RTI is a powerful tool provided by the Government of India and in tern by each of the individual States. Of late TOI and many news papers have taken the RTI route to expose scams themselves. To days TOI carried the details of the RWA meet organized by the paper yesterday (Wednesday).

New Year, new contract for Whitefield Railway bridge

14 January 2010 - 9:33am — vaishvittal

Responses to the new tenders issued by the South Western Railways for completion of the Whitefield Railway overbridge project will be opened in the third week of this month, says a top official at the Railways.

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.

Poster and Publicity Material for 'Take the Bus' Campaign

13 January 2010 - 10:41pm — kbsyed61

BMTC and GOK has announced that the next Bus Day will be observed on March 4, 2010.

Here are smaples of posters available for downloads. Click on the files listed below. These can be used:

Local Train For Twin City Hubli-Dharwad

13 January 2010 - 6:21pm — Sanjeev

As Hubli & Dharwad twin city is developing with lot of efforts on the following front:
1. High Court Bench at Dharwad
2. S W R Headquarter
3. Karnataka University at Dharwad
4. K I M S Hubli
5. Agricultural University at Dharwad
7. BVB Engineering College, Hubli
8. SDM Medical / Dental / Engineering college at Dharwad

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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.

Kadugodi ROB meet

13 January 2010 - 2:05pm — sanjayv

Start: 16 Jan 2010 11:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

Meet at Kadugodi rail over bridge location. Time: 11 AM

Take pics of work progress and post
Finalize the RTI application
Plan meeting local MLA or SWR officials

Spam Control Feature

13 January 2010 - 1:09pm — tech

Lately Praja has been flooded with spam posts from people promoting irrelevant products and services. There have been times when the admins/moderators have had to clean up as many as 10 posts in a day. In view of this we have put together a filtration feature.

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