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ವಾಹನಾಸುರನ ಯಗ್ನಪಶು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು : ಚಾಲಕರನ್ನು ನಿಯಂತ್ರಿಸಿ.


ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ೪೫೦೦ ಕಿ.ಮಿ. ರಸ್ತೆಗಳ ಉದ್ದಗಲಗಳನ್ನು   ದೊಡ್ಡದು ಮಾಡುವುದು ಸುಲಭವೇನಲ್ಲ,  ಸಾಧ್ಯವೂ ಇಲ್ಲ.

Right to response in English

Governance

From over a year now, the responses from GoK officials to queries under RTI, are being made out only in Kannada, even when raised in English, and even when specifically requested to respond in English.

Now, though I can speak Kannada fairly fluently; I can't read or write the language (Questions as to why people like me haven't bothered to learn to read and write the language can be the subject of another blog; but, please do not bring it up here). However, even true-blue Kannadiga's, to whom I have been referring these official responses, have been having difficulty figuring out the specific nuances pertaining to the issues involved.

As such, I feel this is a strategy being adopted by the babu's largely to obfuscate and prevaricate on issues. And, it is certainly having its effects - like from over a year, I have not filed a single query, though I used to be quite a regular before.

In the light of all these, on the 1st of this year, I filed a query as under:

Neta, Babu foreign jaunts

Governance

Information obtained through RTI reveals that 157 legislators and 48 officials who visited foreign countries in 2009 (costing a whopping Rs 4.3 cr) haven't bothered to prepare a study report.

Bangalore scene before computers

Note: This was published in Churumuri as once-upon a -time- before- computers- in Bangalore (http://churumuri.wordpres...)

Free service from Traffic police

Do not know if it is true but got a message today saying:

Send 'Join BTP' to 567678 to receive traffic alerts at 8am, 9am, 5pm, 7pm and 8pm... free service from traffic police.

It is a good initiative if enough people start utilizing this service.
Though I still think this service should be area specific but I do understand that can be hard.

We get such information on radio as well but most of the times everyone is listening to it while on road, stuck in traffic :)

Time to look at Proportional representation?

Governance

For as long as I can remember, I have opposed proportional representation on the usual grounds: stability, the rights of constituencies to elect their own candidates, etc. But watching the drama surrounding the British elections, I have begun to reconsider my position.

It is clear that in India, first past the post does not produce overall majorities. It is also clear that the relationship the framers of our Constitution envisaged between an MP and his constituents has remained a fantasy.

Moreover, the electoral system is being tampered with all the time. If the major political parties have their way, we will now reserve seats for women, creating sexually segregated ghettoes within our constituency map. This may or may not be a valid amendment but it has not been accompanied by any national debate. Those who support it do so on goody-goody grounds: “Let’s give women a chance, yaar”. Those who oppose it in Parliament do so because they are bigots.

Enforce traffic rules rigidly

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Traffic and IMV act violations: in Bangalore GALORE!

It is routine to see red light jumping, oneway violations, parking violations, slow moving vehicles in the outer most lanes,wheeliing which recently cost lives,  cell phone driving, overloaded 2/3 wheelers especially with young innocent children whose lives are endangered. Recently I saw a horrifying one motorcycle with SIX on it- 2 adults 1 kid in between and 3 kids on the gas tank. Under aged driving, tinted glasses, defective number plates( a new breed of glaring LED number plates combined with reflecting italics  small number plates makes identification impossible even from a 3 foot distance of an immobile 2 or 4 wheeler fitted with this kind of number plate.-video attached), kannada only number plates on autos and taxis, no side boards are all designed to evade identification and hence irresponsible behaviour.

Autorickshaw,taxi malpractices damage Bengaluru image irrevocably

Public Transport

About Autorickshaw/taxi  coolie malpractises that damage the city's image, we the citizens were very pleased to hear of transport minister's initiative to control Auto Rajas ruling the city roads  and tarnishing the city image by their rude

Ban honking - proposal

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Dear Honorable Authorities in power who can do something, You all are also victims of all these problems facing us 24/7. and you have the powers to make a difference.

Please DO.
 
Enclosed a request to Ban honking in Bangalore, submitted to prior authorities 3 years ago. without any perceptible results so far.

1) Honking: The problem has become extremely  acute because between then and now almost EIGHT LAKHS (800 per day x 1000 days) have been added in to the unchanged 4,500 kms roads of Bengaluru. These have added almost 1.5 MILLION TONS of pollutants (1500 tons/day) into the air around Bangalore.

Every honk disturbs 8000 individuals at the present rate of population density in Bangalore. Honking has been known to encourage reckless driving rather than being an index of careful driving. No accident has so far occurred due to proven failure to honk. Infact all accidents honking does happen but accidents still occur probably due to recklessness arising out of overconfidence in honking.

ಹಾರನ್ ಬಳಕೆ ನಿಷೇಧಿಸಿ

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ಈ ಕೆಳಕಂಡ ವಿಷಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಭಾವ ಬೀರಬಲ್ಲ  ಶಕ್ತಿ ಮತ್ತು  ಅಧಿಕಾರವಿರುವ ಮಾನ್ಯರೆ,
 
ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರಂತೆ ನೀವೂ  ಈ ಶಬ್ಧಾಸುರರ , ವಾಹನಸುರರ   ಕ್ರೌರ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ೨೪/೭ ಯಗ್ನಪಶುಗಳಾಗಿ
ಆಹುತಿಯಾಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದೀರಿ.
 
 
ಆದರೆ ನಿಮಗೆಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಇದನ್ನು ತತ್ಕ್ಷಣ ಬದಲಾಯಿಸುವ ಸಾಮರ್ಥ್ಯವಿರುವುದರಿಂದ ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನೂ ಪಾರುಗಳಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು , ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರನ್ನೂ (೧೦೦ ಜನಗಳಿಗೆ  ಕೇವಲ ೫ ದೇ   ವಾಹನ ಉಪಯೋಗಕರಿರುವಾಗ ) ಉಳಿಸಿರಿ ಎಂದು  ಈ ಮೂಲಕ ಪ್ರಾರ್ಥಿಸುತ್ತೇವೆ.
 
೧)  ಹಾರ್ನ್ ಗದ್ದಲ: ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತಿನಿತ್ಯ ೮೦೦ ವಾಹನಗಳು ರಸ್ತೆ ಎಂಬ  ಯುದ್ಧಭೂಮಿಗೆ  ಇಳಿಯುತ್ತಿವೆ.
ನನ್ನ ೨೦೦೬  ರ ಮನವಿಯಿಂದ ಈಗಿನತನಕ ಸುಮಾರು ೮ ಲಕ್ಷ ವಾಹನಗಳು ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ಸುಮಾರು ೩ ಮಿಲ್ಲ್ಯನ್
೪೫೦೦ ಕಿಲೋ ಮೀಟರ್ ರಸ್ತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತುಂಬಿಕೊಂಡಿವೆ. ಅಂದರೆ ಪ್ರತಿ ಕಿಲೋಮೀಟರಿಗೆ  ಸುಮಾರು  ೭೦೦ ವಾಹನಗಳಾಗುತ್ತವೆ. ಇವು ಪ್ರತಿನಿತ್ಯ ನಮ್ಮ ಪರಿಸರಕ್ಕೆ ೧೫೦೦ ಟನ್ ವಿಷಾನಿಲಗಳನ್ನು ಉಗುಳಿ ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರ ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಹಾನಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿವೆ. ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ  ಪ್ರತಿ ಚದರ ಕಿ.ಮಿ. ೨೩೦೦೦ ಜನದಟ್ಟಣೆಯಿಂದ   ಒಂದೇ ಒಂದು  ಹಾಂಕ್ ನಿಂದ  16000 ನಿರಪರಾಧಿ ಕಿವಿಗಳು ನೊಂದುತ್ತವೆ.

ವಾಹನಾಸುರನ ಬಲಿ ಪಶು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ೧: ತಡೆಯುವುದೆಂತು ?

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ವಾಹನಗಳಿಗೆ ಜೀವ ಇಲ್ಲ ದಾನವತ್ವ ದೈವತ್ವ ಚೇತನ ತುಂಬುವ ಶಕ್ತಿ  ಅದನ್ನು ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಮಾನವನಿಗೆ ಇದೆ..

Implement Delhi High Court directives to end stray cattle menace - Petition

EnvironmentPollution

Implement Delhi High Court directives to end stray cattle menace - Petition

The presence of unauthorized / illegal / unregistered dairies / dairy colonies / cattle sheds in the urbanized areas is/was the main reason for the stray cattle menace faced by the citizens. The dairies / cattle sheds  are operating / running illegally / unauthorizedly and without any licenses.

The civic bodies ought to have felt embarrassed and apologetic for being unable to implement the policy in an honest and efficient manner.

It unfortunately seems like authorities have no will to enforce closure or relocation of such illegal / unauthorized / unregistered dairies / cattle sheds and are/were in fact interested in such dairies / cattle sheds continuing in the urban areas in total defiance of the provisions of law.

New email notifications from Praja

Praja related

 The Praja Tech team is happy to introduce new and improved email notifications system on Praja.

What

Praja users have the option of receiving email notifications when there is a comment on a post they are interested in. It can be a post authored by you, or a post you commented on. While the existing notification system was working, it was not perfect and we have now rolled out a new notification system.

Why

The old notification system was restricted in terms of its functionality and scalability. As Praja grows, we wanted to have the ability to send notifications to a larger number of users, send notifications through SMS etc. We will now also have ways to make the notifications better formatted and more useful. In addition, with the new system, it will also be possible to receive notifications for any activity within a project group, which is a critical functionality for project teams.

Are Bangaloreans losing their good nature and civic sense?

Everything else

 This is about an incident that i witnessed in Bangalore few weeks ago.

I had been to a single screen theatre few weeks back to watch a Kannada movie. The theatre was crowded since it was a Sunday. The problem arised when the movie started. The "fans" of the movie hero, started chanting his name and shouting slogans of praise for him when the movie name was displayed. This never stopped till the end of the movie, not even for a minute! They might have watched the movie before, but how is it right to spoil the movie for the others?? They were so loud that we could not hear the dialogues properly, none of us could tell them anything lest they charge at us for being so un-fanly.. I am a fan of the star too, but shouting the slogans inside the movie hall and disturbing everyone really upset most of the other audience.

The other thing I generally notice is the habit of many people in Bangalore these days to spit on roads for no reason at all! They dont chew tobacco/pan, still they spit on roads, on pavements, from bus windows etc. There should be some strict legislation to curb such bad habits so that Bangalore stays a clean city.

Say no to widening of trees-lined Sankey Road Petition

Environment

The proposed six-lane corridor is expected to result in chopping of about 150 well-grown trees. The widening entails felling of about 150 trees on both sides of the stretch, besides occupying a good portion of the historic tank. It'll/It'd destroy the beauty of one of the posh localities of the City.

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