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Protest Against Closure of HAL Airport

15 May 2008 - 4:38pm — Devesh

Dear Praja Friends

Below is a message from Lead India winner Rajendra Misra for your perusal. I hope you can make the time to come.

Regards

Devesh R. Agarwal

Driving - what are the chances ...

15 May 2008 - 10:11am — fightcorruption...

What are the chances of you reaching the destination in time and alive if you are driving and followed all traffic rules?

Do read: An FAQ about Praja.in

15 May 2008 - 8:20am — admin

[Please Note: Contents of this post have been moved to a page under "About" section of the website. The FAQ will be maintained there]

In defence of the traffic police!!

14 May 2008 - 5:49pm — vmenon
EnvironmentTraffic

In the "unlocking bangalore" debate I come from 2 or 3 contexts.

a) I believe there is at least 30% capacity on our roads which are wasted by non adherence and non implementation of the law( both traffic laws and a myriad of civic laws )

b) I believe that of the various enforcers/government bodies out there ,the traffic police is one of the better ones , but who are are always at the worst end of the stick, tremendously underresourced and unempowered.

UP state - Road to prosperity

14 May 2008 - 4:03pm — murali772
Public Transport

Road to Prosperity - UP offers investment opportunities in Transport Sector.

That's the caption to the half page ad by the Transport Commissioner, UP, in today's leading newspapers (page 15, TOI).

Salient points (as appearing in the ad), and my comments are as below:

BMIC updates - Guv proposes, EC disposes

14 May 2008 - 12:34am — silkboard
Traffic


It probably started in late March (28/3/08), when Supreme Court issued notices asking Karnataka government to respond as to why the SC order on BMIC is not implemented. The notice was returnable in six weeks. Fast forward that much time, and on May 7, we were told (TOI - typically pro NICE) that government has issued a go ahead on BMIC:

"... the government has paved the way for completion of the peripheral and link roads, which were stalled by the H D Kumaraswamy government. Besides, an empowered committee headed by chief secretary Sudhakar Rao has been asked to take all necessary steps for early completion of NICE's projects ..."

BIAL to open on May 23 night

14 May 2008 - 12:20am — Devesh

http://aviation.deveshaga...

The opening date for the new Bengaluru International Airport of BIAL is scheduled to open on May 23 night, May 24th morning.

Taking the bus: Pick up routes

13 May 2008 - 5:46pm — tsubba


data courtesy navshot.

Case Study: Taking the Bus

13 May 2008 - 5:33pm — admin
Navshot, digs into his company's efforts at providing a bus service to its employees and comes with some very interesting insights. Amongst other things, he discusses issues in route planning, user expectation, working with BMTC, scalability, quality of service issues and factors influencing them.

 

Banking in Bengaluru

13 May 2008 - 4:02pm — vivek_shankar153

Hello Friends,

Banking an integral part of our lives and we all use some or the other bank.

but Banks in Bengaluru or for that matter Karnataka do not use Kannada to the extent it should be.

the private banks dont use Kannada at all either in customer service, ATM's and so on by and large.

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