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Meeting with Commercial Street (CSt) Merchants Association

28 April 2009 - 9:40am — psaram42

The meeting with Mr. Shyam Melwani and Mr. Nazim Sait the President and Vice presidents of the association respectively, took place at their board room situated at the Dispensary Road.

Bangalore, and water - urgency?

28 April 2009 - 8:54am — silkboard

Building up on their last report, Jayshree Nandi (with S Kushala) had yet another report in TOI yesterday to highlight Bangalore's water woes.

Walk to Vote (Mysore)

27 April 2009 - 3:07pm — Vasanthkumar My...

Start: 28 Apr 2009 10:00

End: 28 Apr 2009 11:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

COME ONE, COME ALL, JOIN THE WALK TO VOTE CAMPAIGN, MYSOREANS, CREATE HISTORY,

Round Table India has organised a walk for creating awareness in the minds of voters of Mysoreans

Date: 28-4-2009 - Tuesday

Time: 10 AM

Starting point: Kote Anjaneya Swamy Temple (Palace Compound), Mysoru

End point: - DC OFFICE via Devraj Urs Road

Bangalore pedestrianization projects

27 April 2009 - 2:44pm — das

Project to push for pedestrianization of some popular stretches of roads in shopping districts of Bengaluru.

There is much talk about the urban middle class’s apathy and how they intentionally stayed away from the polling booths despite initiatives like Lead India and Jaago Re. But, actually, problem isn’t voters’ apathy - it's the flawed electoral system.

What is the reason for pathetic voting % in Bangalore south?

27 April 2009 - 11:47am — E.R. Ramachandran

What is the reason for abysmal voting pattern in Bangalore which must be rated from 'poor' to 'terrible'. Despite tremendous efforts on creating awareness on 'Need to vote' in both electronic and Print media, voters especially the urban middle and upper middle class , who complain' maximum 'on any issue ,have stayed away from exercising their right to vote.

A dangerous Strain of corruption

26 April 2009 - 1:09pm — psaram42

Peenya in Bangalore is a renowned Industrial area of the IT city. Being an Industrial area processing of polluting Industrial wastes is a crucial issue. There are set standards for classifying any industry’s pollution factor in three zones A, B, C etc, in decreasing order of polution.

Success Story of a Street Committee at Mysore

26 April 2009 - 12:59pm — Vasanthkumar My...

Success Story of a street committee - C.I.V.I.L with G.I.S

Planning numbers - don't take them at face value

26 April 2009 - 12:47pm — das

The true costs of a project (economic, environmental, whatever) are never evident till the project is done. There is a beautiful (and very well known) study on the issue. Some excerpts from it :

Save 1,800 trees in Lalbagh from Bangalore Metro - Petition

25 April 2009 - 9:39pm — indian

On 16 March 2009, the Hon'ble High Court of Karnataka issued a direction to all agencies involved in management and implementation of urban projects that they would "strictly follow" the provisions of the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act and Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act (in WP No. 7107/2008, Environment Support and ors., vs State of Karnataka).

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