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CAF's inter-active work-shop on Property Taxes, Water & SWM – A citizens’ Perspective

17 February 2011 - 12:00pm — murali772
19 Feb 2011 15:30
Asia/Calcutta
Governance

Citizens Action Forum, #31/1, 1st Floor, M K Puttalingaiah Road, Padmanabhanagar, Bangalore-560070, cordially invites you to an interactive workshop on
 
Property Taxes, Water & Solid Waste Management – A citizens’ Perspective
 

HU study on "equity and access in Bangalore bus system"

16 February 2011 - 1:58pm — murali772
Bus

DULT has commissioned Hasiru Usiru (HU) to undertake a study on "equity and access in Bangalore bus system". A concept note prepared in this connection, and submitted to the Commissioner, is attached.

Amongst other things, the Concept note says that:

BWSSB emulating the Mysore example?

16 February 2011 - 12:52pm — murali772

BWSSB is going for a complete overhaul of its pipelines to check water leakage; 60,000 of the 1.05 lakh water meters in Bangalore South will be replaced; 145 km length of pipelines will be replaced for this pilot project. The target is to bring down the leakage from the current 36% to 16%. Work will begin in three months.

Need for road divider on St Johns Church Road

16 February 2011 - 10:42am — balu036
EnforcementTraffic

St Johns Church Road is a major road leading to Mekhri Circle, Peenya and BIAL. The stretch from Bharatinagar Police Station to Coles Park is a crucial stretch with a lot of schools in the nearby location. Unfortunately due to lack of a road divider, there is no lane discipline on this stretch.

Inter Modal Transit Center

16 February 2011 - 10:40am — Ravi_D
Infrastructure

The (45 Storey?) Inter Modal Transit Center seems to be taking some shape. Snippets from today's DH Report.

Metro Pillars used as parking slots obstructing traffic

16 February 2011 - 10:33am — balu036
EnforcementTraffic

Bangaloreans have done it again! The namma metro towers which run right in middle of the road are being used as parking slots by vehicles in CMH especially in the Lakshmipuram slot. The traffic police for some reason is not curbing this menace. They obstruct smooth flow of traffic and causing a lot of snarls. Will somebody take action to rectify it

Water Stress and scarcity!

16 February 2011 - 9:08am — kbsyed61
LakesWater

We have heard about the word "Stress". Those of us who commute long distances often use this word to describe our frustrations on daily basis. Have we thought of phrase "Water Stress"?

Prices do the trick to control traffic

15 February 2011 - 12:10pm — mcadambi
EnforcementTraffic

Prices do what we can't other wise do!

http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/15/stories/2011021557200200.htm

Three cheers to higher fuel prices! :-)

Common Bus System (CBS)

15 February 2011 - 12:41am — Sanjeev
BusPublic Transport

BMTC cuts Volvo deal for IT majors on ORR

This week, another attempt to get well-heeled infotech sector commuters to drop their vehicles and use buses began. BMTC and the Outer Ring Road Companies Association put this together.

Praja Blogathon - your review and support please!

14 February 2011 - 6:48pm — Nisha Thompson
Praja related

Hi Everyone,

We have started the initial planning stages of the Praja Blogathon. The goal of the blogathan is to bring more people to Praja, and expand the content of the site and to bring more projects to the site.

We are aiming to have this event in July, current date is July 16th. The date isn't set it stone but we figured it is a good place to start. 



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