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Tale of CWG website - 112 Crore spent?

10 October 2010 - 8:09am — kbsyed61
Governance

We all boast of being keepers and makers of world's back office solutions and IT systems. The list includes designing the Boeing's dream-liner to Bosch's washer-dryer. Recently concluded Soccer world cup's IT systems were supposed to have been supported by Mahindra Satyam team. Compare to this when we step down on our local website's, are left with disappointments and nothing else.

The de-notification racket

9 October 2010 - 5:08pm — murali772
Urban DevelopmentGovernance

On February 5, 2010, ABIDe had written to the CM, anticipating problems likely to arise from the slew of denotification orders issued by the urban development department. It had termed these denotifications as ‘non-transparent’. The letter had also recommended that “the ad hoc denotification of notified property be stopped completely.

Bangalore Meter Jam (say no to Autos)

8 October 2010 - 1:57pm — bansal
12 Oct 2010
Asia/Calcutta
EnforcementTraffic

  

Limited stop volvos to ITPL

8 October 2010 - 12:01pm — Anithasunil
BusPublic Transport

The idea of having limited stop buses for routes such as Banashankari - ITPL has been discussed a lot in Praja. I have a new suggestion for the same.

BBMP systematically encouraged illegal buildings

8 October 2010 - 1:34am — kbsyed61
Urban DevelopmentGovernance

Source - Cititen Matters:

New scam brewing at BBMP, their infra website, and a simple advice

7 October 2010 - 9:21am — silkboard
Governance

Recent reports in local dailies suggest that there may have been bogus or excess-spend projects to swindle money at BBMP. Apparently, some works were carried out without following all procedures, and good number of such projects involved road digging or similar work along the Metro corridor (where one would assume Metro itself would have taken up such work). Anyway, nothing new there.

'October Revolution' round the corner

6 October 2010 - 5:44pm — Naveen
Politics

Times of India reports:

20 MLAs have withdrawn support to the BSY government, according to rebel leader P M Narendraswamy after meeting Governor H R Bhardwaj. The Governor has asked Yeddyurappa to prove majority by Oct 12.  ...

Talk of bribery:

Open Data Project - putting on hold

6 October 2010 - 9:15am — silkboard
Governance

Give the current state of digitization, automation, and storage and access within most government departments, some of us have realized that this project requires far more bandwidth than we can afford at this point of time.

Possible priority bus corridors

5 October 2010 - 11:38am — Naveen
BusPublic Transport

Continuing from previous discussion, possible routes...

1) St.Patricks, Brigade Rd to ITPL (on Old Airport rd) ==> focus for our project here.

2) RM Guttahalli to Yelahanka (along Bellary Rd)



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