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  • Bangalore, demolitions, media etc

    15 October 2007 - 8:37am — silkboard

    Demolitions have been making news every other week, looks like BBMP is going to keep their razors up even after the rains are gone.

    Papers report today (online link unavailable) that BBMP is set to demolish parts of the club-house of Koramangala National Games village. It was reported earlier that the club-house was situated atop Raja Kaluve.

    I found this news report - Portions of nine buildings demolished in Puttenahalli - interesting for the last paragraph it carries.

  • The middle-class slums?

    30 September 2007 - 11:59pm — silkboard

    Literally no peace or silence. Hear it all loud and clear when any of your neighbors talk. So called 'individual' houses, most of them joined with one another at hips. No air or space between them. 8 to 10 feet wide roads (practically speaking), dotted with cars, and cobwebbed with cables of all sorts - tv, telephone and electricity in that order.

  • Choked Bangalore - Heart of the matter?

    23 September 2007 - 4:08pm — silkboard

    The best piece of news I have heard this month came last week. It goes "BBMP to book crook engineers". Its something we all know and suspect to be true for ever now, and the plan to break the so called 'nexus' is ambitious:

    "BBMP will book the engineers of the erstwhile CMCs and TMC who have sanctioned projects on storm water drains, valleys, in agricultural lands etc. ... Taking a serious note of rampant violation of zoning regulations and building bylaws, the BBMP ... will trace these officials ... and recommend action against them ... In the wake of demolitions being carried out across the city, the BBMP has stumbled on several cases where engineers have encouraged encroachments in exchange for kickbacks running into lakhs of rupees."

    Not that we haven't heard similar language before, but there is an interesting twist to BBMP's threat this time.

  • Who is it - city government or us?

    12 September 2007 - 8:19am — silkboard
    Governance

    How interesting to see different media houses use varying headlines to describe one same PriceWaterhouseCooper (PWC) survey on Bangalore city and governance.

    - "We're to blame for city's woes" says Times of India Bangalore

    - "Bangaloreans rue city governance" goes NDTV

    - "B'lore citizens seek better urban governance" went the source at PTI

    Here are some interesting notings from this PWC survey:

  • Passing the Muck

    11 September 2007 - 5:53pm — Vijay

    Once every month this BWSSB truck comes in and cleans out the septic tanks in the area. All the dirt and the grime are cleaned out and put on the road in a heap. It is then the work of the BBMP cleaners to clear that mess. This has led to many showdowns between the two, the latest being this morning when the two almost came to blows.

  • Hoardings - can BBMP do it?

    9 September 2007 - 7:30am — silkboard

    You must have missed this ad BBMP put in newspapers 2 weeks ago. It is an aggressive sounding notice talking about unauthorized hoardings and signboards:

    "As per the rules ... exhibitors of illegal advertisements ... banners ... are punishable. Action will be taken against ... by lodging FIR at ... police stations"

  • Your property tax for 2005 ...

    3 September 2007 - 2:40pm — silkboard

    ... is due! Spotted an interesting BBMP tender that tells us that you could very soon find letters like that in mail.

    "BBMP requires services ... to extract data, print Demand/Collection/Balance notices of owners of the Properties in BBMP area ... for the fiscal year 2005"

    Further details of scope of this work tells you a bit about the level of computerization at BBMP's end:

  • Gathering pace

    29 August 2007 - 10:23am — shas3n

    Here is an interesting article from Frontline that gives an overview of developmental situation in Bangalore.

    It talks about future plans for many organisations like BMTC.

    Some excerpts.

  • Let us ask BDA/BBMP?

    24 August 2007 - 9:08am — admin

    Our long term goal at Praja is to do more than blogs and discussions. For that, we first have to grow into a larger community of like minded concerned residents of this city. While we are not there yet, how about we try this experiment on the subject of alternate routes from Bannerghatta Road to Hosur Road.

    What we need is a good connection somewhere between NICE Peripheral Road and Outer Ring Road. For a start, how about we post a suggestion cum question to BDA/BBMP, and do it this way:

    - frame one short and precise paragraph on this - find email id or sarkaari website where we could post this - at least 20-30 of us will post this exact query

  • Whitefield suburb - upcoming road work

    14 August 2007 - 3:47pm — silkboard

    Spotted this tender recently on BBMP website. Have a look, a lot of roadwork coming up in Mahadevapura, Marathahalli and Whitefield sub-divisions - about 6 crore worth of work for each.

    How about we track this work? Basically, write to BBMP and ask them to publish the deadlines, actual money spent, what standards will be used to determine completion of work etc? Anyone interested? 3-4 of us can try do this together as an experiement to see how much effort it takes for citizens to really be in the know.

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