March 2010

Bangalore Water Index Kickoff Meeting

30 March 2010 - 3:05pm — Neha_Dar

Start: 3 Apr 2010 11:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

A few of us are meeting on Saturday to kick off and plan the water index project. Details as follows:

Date: Saturday, 3rd April

Time: 11:00 am

Venue: Alliance Francaise

Agenda: Scope of index. Best representation. Parameters to be tracked. Information sources. Partners. Next steps.

Interested Praja members are welcome to join.

P.S.: You can read about the water index idea here.

Hubli Railway Workshop

29 March 2010 - 4:40pm — Sanjeev

Rail projects on track: Muniyappa :

Complaints to MoS Shri K H Muniyappa on Hubli Railway Workshop

On complaints about decreasing work load at the Hubli workshop and reports of closing it down, General Manager of South-Western Railway Kuldeep Chaturvedi termed the reports as false and said that upgrade of the workshop was under way and once completed there would be enough work for all.

http://www.thehindu.com/2010/03/28/stories/2010032855710600.htm

Union Minister of State for Railways K H Muniyappa said that most of the announced projects for Karnataka in the Railway Budget would start soon and that survey for them would begin shortly.

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Dare they talk!!!?

29 March 2010 - 5:37pm — murali772

The poor turnout in the posh areas of the city and the general voter apathy was cause enough for several politicians to spit fire at Bangalore, and to hint that if people did not turn out to vote they had no right to criticise the ruling class. For the full report in the New Indian Express, click here

The Transport Minister in-charge of Bangalore, R Ashok, scolded people for watching films and going to restaurants instead of voting and called for making voting compulsory.“IT is a shame on part of educated people. I don’t know why these people have no time even to come to polling stations to elect a right candidate" he added.

Town Planning - Ribbon and Ring development

28 March 2010 - 1:40pm — psaram42

Towns existed many centuries before the Industrial revolution. The pre industrial towns were glorified villages in short for obvious reasons. The degree of urbanization increases sharply as industrialization increases. Even with an inherent flaw in the urban mechanism as opposed to nature, the urban way of life has definite irresistible advantages.

1. Man is a social animal

2. Economic drivers

3. Easy access to goods and services

4. Education and seat of learning

5. Safety

Separate lanes for emergency service vehicles

28 March 2010 - 7:36pm — nityashree

Often do we hear a screaming ambulance held up in traffic signals of some busy roads such as K.H. Road or Mallya Road that also lead to important hospitals (Nimhans or Mallya hospitals). I really wonder if any of these ambulances make it on time?

I dont know whether the traffic police are informed by the policemen at the previous signals or the time that the cops have to clear the traffic for the ambulance is too short?! I'm sure that they don't do it on purpose, but the strategy of handling this situation must be surely wrong! and we turnout to be helpless onlookers...

So, I think that it would be more sensible to have separate emergency lanes (similar to the existing auto lanes-that I feel are not very important though...) for ambulances and fire-brigades at least on highly congested roads leading to important hospitals...

The very thought of having our dear one in one of the ambulances that will fail to make on time to the hospital is so horrifying that this is the time to bring in the change.

With best regards,

Nityashree

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