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Traffic Advisory Committee

20 December 2011 - 12:58pm — murali772

The new Additional Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Dr Saleem, IPS, has instituted a Traffic Advisory Committee (TAC), comprising traffic 'experts' from across the city, which incidentally includes three PRAJA members - Pranav, Sathya, and myself - to interact with the traffic police at the highest level on a monthly basis, with a view to finding solutions for the city&

Banashankari TTMC Creating more trouble than convenience

18 December 2011 - 10:53pm — Vasanth

Recently inaguarated TTMC is causing hassles to all the buses travelling from Western Portion of Bangalore towards East such as the 201, 201R, 500 K etc.. All the buses are now forced to enter and exit the Banashankari TTMC. The entrance and exit being narrower, as well as capacity being lower is resulting in pile up of Buses.

Drunk drivers of Bengaluru = 4 Crore worth black money?

17 December 2011 - 9:23pm — silkboard

Now that I have had 10 second hand reports on this, its time to do some math on the black money generated by drunken drivers of Bangalore. I am yet to experience this first hand (hope never to), those who have, say that they pay anywhere from Rs 1500 - 2500 in all after they get booked for drunken driving.

birth of a footpath

17 December 2011 - 7:02am — bialterminal

I had the privilege of watching the construction of a footpath in Southern California recently and capture some images over the few days the construction was in progress. I had always wondered how these good quality footpaths were constructed.

Buying an apartment in Karnataka? Read this

14 December 2011 - 1:26pm — sanjayv

Rev 1. by Murali772 and Sanjayv

There are plenty of articles discussing aspects of buying an apartment in Karnataka, and Bangalore specifically.  This blog posting has a different flavour from most.  We want to focus on some very overlooked aspects which are fundamental as well as important. 

Banana Republic

13 December 2011 - 11:13pm — murali772

It is highly unlikely that all the directors of AMRI, Kolkata, were in charge of day-to-day functioning of the hospital. It was the same when the Bhopal disaster happened.

Dangerous Hospitals this time

12 December 2011 - 12:51pm — psaram42

Recently a fire tragedy killed many patients at a Kolkata hospital. The trusties of the hospital were arrested.

Socio-Economic Challenges of smart cities in India IISc meet

10 December 2011 - 8:14pm — psaram42

 

The Seminar was attended by five Praja 1)Venu, 2)PSA, 3)Pathy, 4)Satya and 5)Pranav. A smart Agenda and Speaker Profiles were available along with a nice bag given to each of the delegates.

Most of the talk went overboard for me. The following were exceptions

1.      Mr. Suresh Heblikar,

Hazardous installations

10 December 2011 - 7:48pm — murali772

This picture was taken on the footpath opposite Aadishwar showroom on the intermediate ring road (some 50M before the start of the Domlur fly-over ramp - approaching from Koramangala side). While such instances are not isolated across the city, what I found unique about this particular installation was its cross-arm covering almost the entire width of the footpath.

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