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World Bank/ GBWASP - a different conspiracy

19 January 2009 - 10:36am — murali772

There's always been a debate over whether the politician is the bigger problem, or the bureaucrat. I have always held that even bigger than the two, there's another formidable force - the Socialist (the psuedo variety - there are very few genuine ones remaining). And, the solutions to the countries problems lies in tackling him.

Unique ID for citizens, voters' list, and German registration system

18 January 2009 - 7:55pm — murali772
Governance

German registration system for citizens and aliens consists of a single data-base which is used for bringing people into the electoral rolls, tax net, into the compulsory education and vaccination systems, insurance systems, Births and deaths, etc.

Traffic Police Day

16 January 2009 - 1:33pm — murali772
17 Jan 2009
17 Jan 2009
Asia/Calcutta
Traffic

Greetings from CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT FOR CIVIC AWARENESS

You know that………Bangalore is a rapidly exploding city in terms of traffic.

You may know that………More than 33 lakh vehicles are plying on the roads and an additional 1000 new registrations are done every day.

BIAL RTI - Airport Development Overview

16 January 2009 - 7:59am — Rithesh
Aviation
Following is the overview of the airport development history.

Praja thanks Mr Nagesh, DyGM KSIIDC for having taken the pains to write this document exclusively for us.

Website structure

14 January 2009 - 9:12am — silkboard

Late in 2008, core members met and asked around on how the website should be structured. This page has the conslidated and evolved suggestions that resulted from this input gathering exercise.

Site Layout

Home Page

Landing page should be simple and designed for casual visitors, not the regular members or readers. It should have:

BIAL RTI - Steering Committee Meeting Proceedings

14 January 2009 - 12:27am — Rithesh
Aviation

The Steering committee proceedings documents were provided by KSIIDC after the meeting between Praja members and Mr. Nagesh DyGM, KSIIDC on 13th Dec 2008.  The documents were obtained from KSIIDC on the 2nd of January.

Cross the damn road - Now Feb 7

13 January 2009 - 11:36pm — silkboard
7 Feb 2009 10:00
7 Feb 2009 11:00
Asia/Calcutta
InfrastructurePedestrian Infrastructure

Venue: Foot of K R Puram cable bridge where Old Madras Road and Outer ring Road merge

Date and Time: Saturday, 31st Jan, Feb 7, 10:00 AM (I wonder whats the busiest time here on a Saturday)

The joys of crossing a road

13 January 2009 - 8:00am — silkboard
InfrastructurePedestrian Infrastructure

ORR KR Puram 4The pedestrian chaos at ORR-Old Madras Road interchange can'tt be stated in words, so I tried this video last week (find it below). The place is a live example of collaboration, lack of it rather, between multiple sarkaari bodies. Bring this up with a babu in Bangalore and instead of ideas or initiatives, you will get stories of how things can only fall between NHAI, Railways, BDA, and the Traffic Police but not improve. Oh yeah, the job of taking initiatives is best left to the citizens.

Wikimapia Coordinates out of the city!

12 January 2009 - 8:54am — Nitinjhanwar

I am posting this in the Blog entry as I would like to bring to everybody's knowledge this anomaly. Although the topic may not warrant but the consequences are important,therefore I request the co-ordinator to keep this post in the Blog category.

I have attached two .pdf files.

Metro construction and safety

12 January 2009 - 2:04am — idontspam

Really concerned how many more irresponsible accidents are going to happen before this project is completed. I get the feeling this project is being run like a govt housing construction for the EWS.



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