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Urban development - the skill gap

2 December 2008 - 11:49pm — silkboard

Time for a boring post. A habitual visitor to MoUD website, I was waiting to put up a small summary of a policy paper that showed up recently. Its called "Capacity building scheme for urban ...". If that was all greek and latin to you, jump to section 3 (page 9) on that pdf, and under "specific capacity gaps", find things that you and me complain about everyday - they don't know how to plan, how to run projects, how to handle public relations etc etc etc.

The Real Problem

2 December 2008 - 5:26pm — murali772

But not a single politician spoke of the real problem. There can be no change unless India is able to strengthen not its laws, as we have more than enough of these its security network. For this only two steps are necessary: end politicisation and rid the police and the intelligence and security agencies of corruption.

India Shining

2 December 2008 - 8:01am — psaram42

I bought the Booker Award winning book by Arundhati Roy in 1997, but could not complete reading it. However I did not realize this Man Booker award winning "white Tiger" by Arvind Adiga was something different. It is not just different but earth shaking.

Brand IIT the only way, or Karnataka Inst. of Tech possible?

1 December 2008 - 7:34am — silkboard

This is a reaction to "Demand for IIT rejected again". It seems the main reason KA's request was turned down was because the state already has IISc and IIM here. Is getting a central govt sponsored, IIT branded institute the best way of setting up a premier education institution in the state?

Delhi BRT - much to learn

30 November 2008 - 2:06am — asj
Much to learn from this experience -

http://www.itdp.org/documents/Analysis%20of%20Delhi%20BRT.pdf

ASJ

Wide & elevated rendered useless

29 November 2008 - 10:37pm — asj

For those who think wide roads, elevated routes et al is the solution - this is Hampton, zone 4 outskirts of London. I get caught in this rut each time I decide to drop my daughter off by car during morning rush hour.

View this image http://better.pune.googlepages.com/queues.jpg


ASJ

Bangalore: Open Praja meeting

28 November 2008 - 5:47pm — admin
13 Dec 2008 07:30
13 Dec 2008 09:00
Asia/Calcutta

Trying to start recurring Praja meetings, see this post for background. Venue Lalbagh West Gate. Agenda: update each other on things we are into, think how to make our virtual group do more and help members collaborate better.

Praja.in : about moving ahead on actionables

28 November 2008 - 11:55am — ananth.bangalore

Hey SB and naveen, Thanks for your replies (to this comment), please find my inputs below..

"Anant sir, If you are willing to come forward and help carry out this survey, some of us here are willing to fund it."

How petrol pumps cheat you

28 November 2008 - 10:26am — bijeshkrishnadas
I had written about this some years back and forwarded it to as many people as I know. These practices that I mention below still continue. Do your part and spread awareness to everyone you know.

id proof and address proof

27 November 2008 - 4:10pm — seenivisesh
i am a bit confused. different authorities ask different prrofs for ID and adress the government is to regularise the issue of voters id as well as the reation card,otherwise it is very difficult for middle class families who run their lively hood partly by loans only. no registration for gas unless there is ration card.how to go further. narayanan

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