Skip to Content

BBMP

  • Guess who is running your city

    24 August 2010 - 12:23pm — idontspam

    No its not engineers

  • Covering of storm water drains: Useless and detrimental

    2 August 2010 - 12:21pm — vneevarp
    Environment

    I've noticed a lot of activity in our locality with the authorities covering the storm water drains in front of houses. These drains for more than 20 years, carried only storm water when it rained and otherwise were quite dry. On an average, they are about 1 1/2 feet wide and about 1 1/2 feet deep.

  • Incompetent BBMP?

    2 August 2010 - 8:55am — kbsyed61
    Urban DevelopmentGovernance

    It is time to ask some tough questions on BBMPs competencies to maintain the Bengaluru City's civic infrastructure. Looking at various mishaps and neglect by BBMP becomes very apparent that BBMP does not have the technical and administrative competencies to create and maintain the civic infrastructure.

  • The cable tangle - free ride?

    2 August 2010 - 12:22am — silkboard
    Governance

    It might sound like a trivial crib to many of you, but the freedom with which Cable TV operators ride on City's infrastructure conveys something to us. It might be a ignorable case of lax enforcement, and umpteen such small small things add up to promote the feeling that anyone can do anything with city's walls, pavements, poles, roads etc etc.

  • ROB at between Whitefield KR Puram and Byappanhalli approved in BBMP

    30 July 2010 - 9:11am — Sanjeev
    Infrastructure

    Palike approves nine projects without debate :

  • BBMP and Mosquitoes

    16 July 2010 - 10:06am — Ravi_D
    Public Health

    Taking a deviation to discuss a less fancy but important topic. Public Health.

    According to today's DH Report, "Mosquito Control Project Director" Dr Lokesh says:

    The Palike is spraying pesticides, carrying out fogging and has launched several health awareness camps to educate the public about maintaining cleanliness in and around their houses.

    ...has assigned three people to spray pesticides in each ward.

    ...has also undertaken a publicity drive to inform every citizen about the precautionary measures.

     

    So the story goes. I haven't seen a single fogging machine or guys spraying pesticides at work. If DH wouldn't report it, I wouldn't have a clue there was a 'publicity drive'. But everything stated implies things that have either happened in the past or presently ongoing. 

    Do I live in a different Bangalore? Have you seen any of the above in your ward?

     

  • BBMP and Road Widening

    12 July 2010 - 8:19am — admin

    Most aware citizens say that widening roads to fight traffic congestion is like buying larger clothes to fight obesity. BBMP and some others feel that some arterial roads are choked, and road widening is a must.

    Such direct focus on roads, and so little on mobility has been a problem with Bangalore's planners for a decade now. But its only in early 2010, when a large road widening scheme from BBMP threatened to touch thousands of private properties that the debate has hit common citizens of Bengaluru.

    Scientifically speaking, city roads needs consistent width - 4 lanes would do just fine - in corridors, better management of stopping and parking along the ribbons of corridors, width for pedestrians to keep them off the tar, and improvement at junctions to manage the flow.

  • Road Widening hits a road block?

    11 July 2010 - 9:23am — psaram42
    Infrastructure

    Today’s Sunday times had the head line on road widening ahead of Food Ball news for a change.

    Your house cannot be taken forcibly under TDR.

    “As per the rules, BBMP can take up road widening only under the Transferable Developments Rights Scheme (TDR). If the private property owner does not cooperate in giving away his land for road widening the process cannot be taken up legally”

    The only option for BBMP is to forcibly acquire the property by paying current market rate under Karnataka land acquisition act. What then was the relevance of BBMP TDR in the first place? Was it to take away the property without proper compensation? 

  • Say no to road widening in Bangalore - Petitions

    5 July 2010 - 12:54pm — indian
    InfrastructurePedestrian Infrastructure

    40,000 properties in Bangalore are likely to be demolished to widen 227 roads by displacing 38,000 to 2 lakh people for private vehicles. Pedestrians have no footpaths to walk. Road widenings must be stopped. Homes, properties and livelihoods of the citizens must be saved. Roads should be accessible for all sections of society.

    http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/no-to-road-widening-in-bangalore

    (Fully featured and comprehensive version)

    http://www.petitiononline.com/roadwide/

    (Patially featured and condensed version)

    Twitter Tweet
    http://bit.ly/d8EaOI http://petol.org/roadwide - Say no to road widening in Bangalore - Petitions

  • Bangalore and Signal Free Corridors

    30 June 2010 - 9:02am — silkboard

    Public transport die hards don't want any of this. Car lovers want them. But many believe that some solution is required in Bangalore to improve radial connectivity across ends of Outer Ring Road.

    • BBMP has been trying to improve radial connectivity by widening some corridors, and planning more flyovers etc at busy signals.
    • BBMP has tried doing this on Belary Road via Magic Boxes.
    • Some people have proposed tunnel roads to connect CBD with Outer areas.
    • BDA is converting Outer Ring Road to a signal free corridor
    • CTTP 2007 had proposed long elevated roads above 4 key radial corridors.

    Let us outline detailed posts on the subject under this book. This is a wiki post anyway, so if anyone wants to add more to this page itself, just edit it instead of adding comments.

Syndicate content

Praja.in comment guidelines

Posting Guidelines apply for comments as well. No foul language, hate mongering or personal attacks. If criticizing third person or an authority, you must be fact based, as constructive as possible, and use gentle words. Avoid going off-topic no matter how nice your comment is. Moderators reserve the right to either edit or simply delete comments that don't meet these guidelines. If you are nice enough to realize you violated the guidelines, please save Moderators some time by editing and fixing yourself. Thanks!



about seo