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'Suggestions for BESCOM'

Action seems to be picking up at BESCOM, with a new Power Minister few months ago, and a new commissioner now. Pasting below, from an email exchange, some ideas for BESCOM and Energy situation in Bangalore, from Mr. MC.

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Re-Imagining the World-Class City

3 Jan 2011 13:30
9 Jan 2011 13:30
Asia/Calcutta

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements [www.iihs.ac.in] announces an Institute on 'Re-Imagining the World-Class City' at Bengaluru from the 3rd to the 9th of January 2011.

MMTS Service Improvements and what about Bangalore Commuter Rail

MMTS services of  Hyderabad  has doing great improvements, you can see here how the services have been improved over the last few months. For Bangalore & its suburbs  Commuter Rail is still distant dream unless we push our Politicians hard either BJP / Congress

digital tree census

A group of students have been working on a street tree census in Bangalore. This team has now completed a count of all the street trees in one particular ward and put up the details online - here.

Worthwhile effort, I should think - may be prajagalu would like to join in.

Muralidhar Rao

Bicycling infrastructure for Last mile & Intermodal connectivity

Introduction

Need

{1} Diminishing mobility and accessibility, worsening health and environmental situation, lack of transport facilities and infrastructure, poor planning and traffic management and neglect of  multi-modal transport systems. In Indian cities the share of NMT at peak hours ranges from 30 up to 70%; trips undertaken by bicycle acco

CBD Bike sharing route & locations

 Number: Approx 20 bikes at each location to start with and increase on uptake

Intermodal Bicycle Connectivity

Project number:3916
Opened by:idontspam
Opened on:Wednesday, 17 November 2010 - 8:51am
Last modified:Sunday, 12 May 2013 - 10:34pm
Operations:add Case | view all project cases
Program to enable citizens of Bangalore to use Bicycle for last mile and intermodal connectivity
Initiator: 
Praja RAAG

This program consolidates all proposals related to enabling bicycle infrastructure in Bangalore. We started with Bike sharing proposal in the Central Business District (CBD). We then worked on getting the CBD proposal extended to other areas.

Local wastewater (or mini sewerage) treatment plant

Jayadeva institute built their own treatment plant. full article (DH source http://www.deccanherald.com/content/111788/now-jayadeva-institute-has-another.html) below.

Business-Standard's double standards - worse than Tata's?

Since I read almost all editorials carried by Business Standard, read their (Mr T N Ninnan's?) take today on Tata's Rs 15 cr remark as well. To quote the editorial:

Mr. Tata has neither been brave nor has he served the cause of good governance. His tangential remarks this week ... make him look smaller.

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