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Campaign against so-called 'privatisation' of water

26 February 2011 - 10:55am — murali772

In a meeting organised with the Karnataka Urban Development Minister Mr.

CRS is not in the railway budget of 2011-12

26 February 2011 - 3:29am — kbsyed61

This morning I woke up to a bad or sad news about Bengaluru CRS. Spoke with IDS over the phone and he broke the news that Mamta's budget didn't had anything to say about Bengaluru CRS. That was really heart breaking. That too after so much work put down by Namma Railu team, Bengaluru CRS was nowhere to be heard in entire budget speech.

benefits to construction workers

25 February 2011 - 8:21pm — ssheragu

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I came across a news item in the DECCAN HERALD dated February 13, 2011 regarding benefits that are due by law to construction workers and which do not require any expenditure  on the part of the contractor or agency.

In fact, it is a win win situation for both the construction worker and the contractor

Commuter Rail mentioned in the Karnataka State Budget by CM

24 February 2011 - 5:24pm — Sanjeev

55.  The Comprehensive Traffic and Transportation Plan for Bangalore has identified the need to take up commuter rail system within the city.

State Budget Populist? or just full of hot air?

24 February 2011 - 5:15pm — srinidhi

 BSY has created history of sorts by announcing a budget before the Union one!

Lot of juicy information related to infra for blr! Mono..metro..brts..you name it and its listed!

DDC Quiz - 1

24 February 2011 - 9:17am — Bheema.Upadhyaya

Well having practiced for few weeks now DDs must have come across various situations scenarios. Whatever I faced , I am asking you as quiz so that we know how a DDs would react to specific scene. For example today, I came across a scenario which I am asking DDs , how would you react.

Who is reponsible for transformer maintenance

23 February 2011 - 3:16pm — sanjayv

I live in an apartment community.  We have a few transformers.  One of the things we realized recently is that our transformers really need some maintenance - oil level, dessicant cartridge, gaskets, oil filteration etc.  Then a question was posed - (a) Who owns the transformers - us or BESCOM.  Who is responsible for servicing them?

HC intervenes to check tree felling

23 February 2011 - 1:12pm — murali772

The High Court on Friday directed the State government to file objections in connection with the indiscriminate felling of trees in the City.

TransRetail : Idea for Public Transport

22 February 2011 - 4:21pm — bharatm

Summary:  The growing metro cities in India are in dire need of better transportation system. There are lot of proposed solutions which talks about more infrastructure ( Metro , Flyovers ) or talks about priority infrastructure for public transport like BRT ( and others).

Dr U V Singh, IFS - my next year's nominee for Bangalore Ratna

22 February 2011 - 3:56pm — murali772

His only aim was to save the lake from pollution. U V Singh, chief conservator of forests, who heads the Lake Development Authority (LDA), was assaulted on Sunday by a corporator. But this is not his first such encounter — Singh was attacked by mining lords and the eucalyptus mafia earlier.



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