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Mixing "what" and "how" - Mysore water supply protest example

22 March 2009 - 12:25am — silkboard
Governance

Not writing this to take sides in the recently lit 'protest' over supposed privatization of water supply at Mysore. Good friend Vinay forwarded this article from Star of Mysore which goes by the title "Intellectuals oppose Tata deal"

Meeting with Prof.Ashwin Mahesh

21 March 2009 - 10:17pm — Naveen
BusPublic Transport

As part of ABIDe, Prof.Ashwin Mahesh appears to have thoroughly understood all the limitations of having to deal with issues for commencing new city transport services within the existing framework of our polity & citizenry.

He touched upon prevailing operational practices & existing mindsets within BMTC as also those of the expectations of people with regard to BMTC services. He dealt with various issues in an extremely systematic & orderly way & explained all aspects – indeed in a most impressive manner.

NICE wins court case (Gottigere)

20 March 2009 - 11:47am — s_yajaman
Infrastructure

Read this in the Hindu today.

http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/20/stories/2009032060780600.htm

"The peripheral ring road to be built around the lake "

BMTC Infrastructure Development under JnNURM!

19 March 2009 - 8:27pm — kbsyed61
Public Transport

 Interesting information about use of JnNURM funds for the BMTC infrastructure. This information is available on BMTC website.

List of questions For BMTC project

19 March 2009 - 10:22am — manjari

Before taking the BMTC project forward we should have a list of queries ready. A list of questions for BMTC RTIs are given below.  Lets finalize the list and get going.

List of questions For BMTC

19 March 2009 - 9:52am — manjari
                               
1. Fleet Details                               

KR Puram bridge area - Good going traffic police!

18 March 2009 - 1:43pm — silkboard
Traffic

OMR Ped 1I have waited to post this, 3 weeks to be precise because I want. After after our street photography adventure at OMR/ORR junction, I have been noticing a few changes at this junction of junctions.

Updated: Big10 meeting with Prof Ashwin Mahesh, *time* 2.30 pm

18 March 2009 - 10:39am — murali772
21 Mar 2009 14:30
21 Mar 2009 16:00
Asia/Calcutta
BusPublic Transport

The interaction session with Prof Ashwin Mahesh, ABIDe member, will essentially be on his team's efforts at innovations in BMTC services, more specifically the "Ho-Ho, and Big-10" services.

Date: Saturday, the 21st March;
Time: 2.30 PM;

Information Available on BMTC

17 March 2009 - 12:59pm — manjari
Information Available:

Operate 5247 schedules
Deploy a fleet of 5441 buses
Make 73240 trips
Perform 11.78 Lakhs Service Kilometres
Carry more than 38.00 Lakhs Passengers
Earn around Rs.258.54 lakhs and
Pay Rs. 14.22 lakh to the Government towards Motor Vehicle tax
Every month, about 2.36 lakhs Monthly public passes are issued


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