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The Namma Bengaluru Awards 2011

15 November 2011 - 6:21pm — murali772
15 Nov 2011
30 Nov 2011
Asia/Calcutta

The Namma Bengaluru Awards 2011 has been launched and we invite you to nominate an Individual/Group/Organization/Social Entrepreneur/Elected Representatives/Government Departments of Bengaluru, working for the city and its causes.

Illiberal India

14 November 2011 - 4:50pm — murali772

Elite journals like Economic and Political Weekly are full of articles describing Indian economic policy as neo-liberal. This might lead readers to think that India has become a haven of economic freedom, a business paradise. Anybody who has actually tried to start and run a business will tell you this is a pack of lies, but the fiction continues unabated.  

defanging the LokAyukta

14 November 2011 - 11:21am — murali772

Chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Sunday blamed former PM H D Deve Gowda for the transfer of Lokayukta ADGP Jeevan Kumar Gaonkar, prompting the latter to dismiss it as ‘‘utter nonsense’’.

Meeting with Mr. T. Venkatraju, Chief Engineer, BWSSB

12 November 2011 - 11:46am — psaram42
26 Nov 2011 10:00
Asia/Calcutta

 

Mr. T Venkata Raju. Chief Engineer BWSSB,  was contacted to day. He has agreed for a Saturday meeting at BWSSB Office at Indira Nager II stage, Bangalore.

The Tentative programme is

Venue : BWSSB Office at Water tank behind Indiranagar Club

Date  : 26 Nov 2011

Time : 10:00 AM

de-cattle-class-ifying bus services

11 November 2011 - 8:10pm — murali772

Recently, I was required to make a few trips to Kochi. The options before me, and what each implied are listed below:

Cost for getting an Electric Connection in India and abroad!

9 November 2011 - 3:20am — kbsyed61

I am sure you all have gone through this one time or other directly or indeirectly of exeperincing the plaesure of getting an electricity connection. Do We know how much it cost to get an elcetricity connection to our homes, offices, businesses, industry?

Here is an comparison of cost and efforts to get an Electricity connection in India with other countries in the world.

Karnataka Right to Services - Feedback. Summary - need money & IT

7 November 2011 - 1:44am — silkboard

GoK may have pushed it to score points, may be that they rushed through the ordinance, but this is THE MOST important development in recent years on governance front. We all need to just get in on this to make sure this happens, and happens right.

Karnataka - Right to Services Act Bill proposal

5 November 2011 - 7:47am — Public Agenda

Here is the full bill proposed by the GoK

THE KARNATAKA (RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO TIME BOUND DELIVERY OF SERVICES) ACT, 2011

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City Buses in PPP mode - Bhubaneswar. Why not Mysore?

3 November 2011 - 11:13pm — silkboard

Did you know that Bhubaneswar operates Buses in PPP model? They may be planning a BRT too in PPP or outsourced model (see another post for details). Any idea on population and size of Bbsr? 9 lakhs, 135 sqkm. Mysooru? Almost the same, close to 10 lakhs, 130 sqkm.

Clippings from an attached ppt attributed to Mr Saurabh Garg, an IAS officer from Orissa (Odissa?)

Bhubaneswar going Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) - see RFP

3 November 2011 - 10:29pm — silkboard

They have been talking BRTS for at least 3 years now. Orissa government announced the intent earlier this year in July. This week, BDA (Bhuwaneshwar Development Authority, not our BDA) floated tenders for doing detailed technical project report for BRT for total 49 km long, 6 corridors of BRT.



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