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Electoral rolls - response from Manivannan

8 May 2009 - 10:54pm — Mani1972

Dear Friends,

Now that the posts on ‘Electoral Roll’ appear to have concluded, it’s time to respond to the issues raised. Many of the issues raised such as ‘bad system’, ‘where the buck stops?’, ‘dedicated official is an oxymoron’ etc are generic and serious in nature; let’s examine the issues with facts and figures.

Facts are important because, such a forum, having committed citizens who have time and energy to contribute positively to the state, must be exposed to facts and not subsist on the assumptions, however enticing they may be!

Need Your Presence at the Nanda Rd Event This Saturday

8 May 2009 - 3:54pm — kanishkaRCML

The protests opposing the current plans of the Bangalore Metro in the Southern Reach have been well publicized in the mainstream media. As a result, they have elicited statements from politicians across party lines supporting  the suggestion that the design and alignment of the metro be re-examined before further work is taken up.

Save Labagh & Nanda Road Protest

8 May 2009 - 3:42pm — kanishkaRCML
9 May 2009 08:00
9 May 2009 09:00
Asia/Calcutta
Location: 32nd Cross and Nanda Road, Bangalore
Time: 8 am
Date: May 9, 2009
Details: http://www.hasiruusiru.org

Chief Election Commissioner’s name missing in voters list

8 May 2009 - 10:28am — psaram42

 Mr. Navin chawla, Chief Election Commissioner of India found his name deleted in the voters list. He had gone to the polling booth with his family to cast his vote.

"Road Dividers" or "Walls"?

7 May 2009 - 2:46pm — ssnkumar

Dear Sir,

     Recently most of the important roads of Bangalore have been made double roads.
     As part of that, "Road Dividers" have been placed in the middle of roads, so that the traffic gets streamlined.
     This is a welcome move and helps.

Digging of roads and improper patch up

7 May 2009 - 9:29am — cajalal

The roads in Whitefield-ITPL area were in reasonably good condition after the last asphalting and periodic maintenance works. However the good conditioned roads were spoiled by the pits digged (and left without properly filling/repairing) for laying pipe conduits (for fiber cable ?) underground.

SC grants three months to implement high security registration plates

6 May 2009 - 7:25pm — murali772

Supreme Court on Tuesday set a three-month deadline for the Centre and the state governments to implement high security registration plates (HSRPs), removing all ambiguity about the mandatory nature of its earlier order on the issue.

Traffic Signal Modeling - Sharing a Case Study

6 May 2009 - 2:26pm — Ravi_D

Attached is an interesting case study for geeky types on Praja, related to modeling and optimization of Traffic Signal Syncronization in Bangalore.

BBMP elections, Outer ring road and Flyovers Underpasses

6 May 2009 - 2:25pm — Public Agenda

It seems the Rs 300 crs needed for 10 underpasses to raise money for which GoK formed a Land corp (sell encroached recovered Govt lands and was unsuccessful) in Oct 2008 has suddenly become 450 crs now to be used for 8 flyovers.

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