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Some handy tourism stats - entry count at Hampi etc

8 August 2011 - 10:14am — silkboard

Its generally pretty hard to get stats on domestic tourism. The subject needs to be of high interest to us as many believe that domestic tourism is one of the things that can help close the urban rural, or big city-hinterland gap. And we are talking Karnataka, with solid tourism potential, and huge base of Bangalore to tap into.

New Notification on Fire Safety

7 August 2011 - 7:10pm — murali772

Mr Uday Vijayan of "Beyond Carlton", who is working with 'Namma Bengaluru Foundation' to further the Fire Safety message sent me these copies of the latest (7th July, '11) notification issued by the Karnataka Fire and Emergency Services wing of the Home Department.

Srinivagilu village road motorability

6 August 2011 - 7:27pm — murali772

The Srinivagilu village road, which is an ideal link to Intermediate Ring Road (IRR) for S T Bed layout residents heading towards Indiranagar side, is becoming more and more unmotorable. The road, which was concreted a few years back, has got dug up at so many places along the length and breadth, resulting in its reverting to a regular village road, once again.

Traffic Congestion at Tavarekere and Hosur road

6 August 2011 - 1:34pm — psaram42
13 Aug 2011 10:00
Asia/Calcutta

Venue   : Forum mall at Koramangala

Agenda : To Visit and deliberate about 

                 1. Hapazard Development at Tavarekere area

                 2. Traffic congestion at

a petition being sent to the minister

6 August 2011 - 8:23am — murali772

A petition as per attachment is being sent by to Sri S Suresh Kumar, Hon’ble Minister for Law, Govt of Karnataka, in the coming week. If he continues to hold the portfolio (assuming he continues as a minister), an attempt will be made to meet him soon.

Petition being sent to minister

6 August 2011 - 8:18am — murali772

A petition as per attachment is being sent by to Sri S Suresh Kumar, Hon’ble Minister for Law, Govt of Karnataka, in the coming week. If he continues to hold the portfolio (assuming he continues as a minister), an attempt will be made to meet him soon.

Single RR Number, Multiple gas connections- Can BBMP make use of data?

5 August 2011 - 8:55pm — Nags123

Food & Civil supplies collected data abour RR Number of all LPG gas holders. It has found 1 to many i.e 1 RR Number to Multiple gas connections.

BBMP is always falling short of property tax collections. Above data can be very useful data for BBMP to enhance revenue collection, if this data shared with BBMP.

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Do we have the rule of law at all?

5 August 2011 - 2:39pm — murali772

The report captioned "Whose lake is it any way?" in the Bangalore Mirror made for some amazing reading. Some excerpts are reproduced below (the full text may be accessed here):

Anomalies in stamp duty valuation

4 August 2011 - 10:58am — murali772
Project number:4449
Opened by:murali772
Opened on:Thursday, 4 August 2011 - 10:58am
Last modified:Saturday, 6 August 2011 - 9:32am
Operations:add Case | view all project cases
Highlight lack of fair and just methodology for determining the stamp duty leviable on property transactions
Initiator: 
Praja RAAG

Whenever a property transaction takes place, there exists a fair and just methodology for determining the stamp duty leviable, taking care of buyer's, seller's, developer's, as well as government's revenue interests, in the form of the 'guideline market value', published by the government, in accordance with the Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957.



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