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Inputs to proposed Fire Safety Legislation

22 June 2010 - 1:19pm — deepakar

I'm posting this on behalf of Vivek Reddy of the BJP Legislative cell. Vivek is gathering inputs for a reform to the current Fire-safety laws and their enforcement. He was keen on getting inputs from Praja too. I had referred the following two threads to him.

http://praja.in/en/projects/2010/03/12/fire-safety-project-bring-awareness-and-seriousness

http://praja.in/en/blog/r...

Further inputs will be appreciated

* Who are the local experts on the area that could contribute to this activity?

* Are you aware of some measures and best-practices adopted successfully in other countries?

* Anyone who has knowledge of the law and can critique the current legislation?

 

Rethinking road-widening - Tunnels?

22 June 2010 - 6:31am — Transmogrifier
Infrastructure

One of the core infrastructural issues we are facing is an inability of our arterial roads and highways to provide rapid cross-town access. Globally, city and highway planners recognize and create different infrastructure for highways and city roads. See Dr. Joglekar’s posts here for a succinct description of this problem plaguing most Indian cities. A simple schematic (full size image here)and an inventory of city highways reveals the problem.

Thru Highways:

  1. NH7 (in blue)
  2. NH4 (in red)

Terminal Highways:

Presentation describing Open Data pilot

21 June 2010 - 1:05am — silkboard
Governance

Here is a presentation describing the Open Data pilot proposal. Credits to IDS, Shekhar, Rithesh and Sreeram. We have been speaking with a few government officials for their participation in the pilot and expect to 1-3 confirmations ASAP.

Personally, I find the proposal very exciting. There are parallels from UK/US to borrow from, but our government systems are not as digitized yet and not everyone is used to talking transparency using real data (citizens, media or governments), so the work involved should be unique and interesting.

Open Data for Karnataka - Pilot

21 June 2010 - 12:55am — admin
Project number:3532
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Opened on:Monday, 21 June 2010 - 12:55am
Last modified:Wednesday, 6 October 2010 - 9:30am
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Open Data initiative for state of Karnataka

Not the usual Praja type project, but here is a different and potentially high impact project we are putting up for your support.

BWSSB Ultrosonic Flow meters What can they do?

20 June 2010 - 9:15pm — psaram42
Water

I saw this leak presumably Cauvery water, during my usual morning walk to day at about 6:15 AM. Instead of picking up a telephone and putting in my complaint at some BBMP  ward office I thought of putting a blog entry on Praja. The BWSSB has installed Ultrasonic flow meters all around Bangalore  for detecting pilferage and or leakages.

   Picture 1. The Ultrosonic Flow meter installed at 80 ft Road

I am not sure whether these kinds of leakages can be detected let alone the exact location identified.

Picture 2. The Drinking Water Pipe on 80 Ft Road Indiranagar Laid beneath the foot path in front of the BSNL Telephone Exchange

Picture 3. The Water gushing at the 12th main 100 ft road Junction at Indiranagar

 

Apply chennai's story in Bangalore ?

19 June 2010 - 10:30pm — thampan

Just read this blog entry  on "Indian Liberals and Colour Pictures" by Amit Verma . Among other things, he talks about how colour pictures were used to transform chennai roads.

Excerpt : (Emphasis mine)

Cherubal works as a coordinator at Chennai City Connect, and holds the view that politicians and bureaucrats, sometimes caricatured as the villains in the piece by dogmatic liberals, are often on our side, and agree with us about the nature of the problems. But giving them abstract ideas about what to do is pointless, for they don’t have the bandwidth to take them further. The only effective approach is two-pronged: One, show them case studies to demonstrate that our solutions have worked elegantly elsewhere; Two, give them a detailed road-map of how to implement the solution.

PUPs: Alternative Approach to Governance Reforms

18 June 2010 - 9:26pm — pdk
Water

Interesting story of an alternative vision of reform in government departments, from Tamil Nadu:

Our Worshipfull Corporaters

18 June 2010 - 1:22pm — psaram42

 

Shri. S.K.Nataraj, Worshipful Mayor , No. 144, 12th Cross,3rd Main, Sarakki Grama, Bangalore-560078 Mobile : 9845013157

 

United Way of Bengaluru to hold Corporate Quiz Challenge 2010 on June 26, 2010

17 June 2010 - 5:11pm — Manoj Joshi
17 Jun 2010 17:00
Asia/Calcutta
Everything else

            United Way of Bengaluru to hold Corporate Quiz Challenge 2010 on June 26, 2010
            QuizCraft (of KBC fame) to conduct the competition with Charu Sharma as the quiz master
            Proceeds to support corrective eye surgeries of underprivileged adults and children 

            United Way of Bengaluru to hold Corporate Quiz Challenge 2010 on June 26, 2010
            QuizCraft (of KBC fame) to conduct the competition with Charu Sharma as the quiz master
            Proceeds to support corrective eye surgeries of underprivileged adults and children 

ABIDe report on water, wasterwater and sanitation

17 June 2010 - 1:49am — n
Water

is here (cannot attach file as the size is greater by 0.4 MB than the limit on praja). Highlights / comments below.



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