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Bangalore future with no landfills

Public Health

Came upon this ad in the ToI today.

Thereafter, I browsed through

Safety of old age people

I would like to share my todays experience.

A courier boy came to deliver.

today these days being very unsafe to invite any strangers inside, I usually take any such things to verify through a window and take delivery through it.

I was suspisious on the courier on few counts

 

V and U needed for metro?

Metro Rail

Hindu today carried a front page news item about the metro allignment on the Byp PH II extension to Whitefield. It was more a report based on renewed outcry from certain sections of public..below is the map of contention from the paper:

CAG report on allotment of sites by BDA - action take so far?

Governance

I notice that there is a lot of halla in newspapers this morning on a new CAG report on financial performance of BBMP. This reminded me of the other report release last year on "Denotification of land by Government and Allotment of sites by BDA". embedding the report through scribd below.

How to make footpaths free of transformers - your suggestions

Pedestrian Infrastructure

Guys, BESCOM is seeking ideas on how to make Bangalore footpaths free of transformers. I think newspaper ads are out today. Was wondering if we can collect some ideas via this post and share with BESCOM.

update: First up, a list of previous posts on the subject, as this is not new.

Now that rains have saved Bangalore, forget about it?

Water

We came "this" close to going dry this summer. How close? Don't really know, but the word is that if rains had arrived 10 days later, we would have hit that point. But now that rains are here, newspapers, BWSSB, KNNL (Neeravari Nigam) will all move on and wait for a crisis to approach next year or year after depending on when we would have the next monsoon shortfall.

End of bellandur / rise of concrete

Lakes

The two media links below are fairly self explanatory of what can be called a potentiol ecologocal disaster right here in banglore. The strories of bellandur lake are based on an IISc report  that is attached to this post.

Tractors in Urban Limits and Rural

Enforcement

I am facing atleast 10 mins delay every day on my way to office because of Tractors blocking the road.

I would like to know from people in the forum what are the policy on use of tractor. My question is more specific to JP Nagar area.

1. Are tractors allowed in road any time of day ?

2. Can tractors carry any kind of load or is there any load restrictions ?

Whither green activism?

Environment

Green activists and local villagers have taken serious exception to proposals from defence and research institutions to build sensitive projects on the 10,000 acres of Amrit Mahal Kaval land allotted to them in Challakere taluk of Chitradurga district. Among the sensitive projects are a Defence Research Development Organization proposal to start an aeronaut

K R Puram Station

Commuter Rail

In this thread,  we will share or update  on the K R Purma station related news,  tenders & info.

Better days ahead for KR Puram railway station

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