June 2009

Green cess

11 June 2009 - 12:44pm — murali772

You’ve paid infrastructure and education cesses. Now, get ready to shell out a green cess of 5 paise per kWh electricity. If the Karnataka government has its way, for the first time, the state will levy this on industrial and commercial establishments to raise funds for renewable energy.

Rainwater Harvesting - Preaching without practicing ?

11 June 2009 - 4:05pm — Vasanthkumar My...

Some observations/solutions for making RWH compulsory.

Men in authority are more interested in preaching than practicing.

There are huge government buildings and lands/waste lands in urban/rural areas - still there is no semblance of utilizing such golden areas for creating rain water harvesting facilities by those in occupation of such lands.

India now In NFS Radar for US Fellowships

10 June 2009 - 9:35am — psaram42

To days TOI has reported the recognition accorded by US-Based National Science Foundation (NFS) for the following institutions in India:-

Namma Metro Phase 2 Soil Testing

10 June 2009 - 4:55pm — Vasanth

Today morning I saw soil testing of Namma Metro Phase 2 in Bank Colony near Udupi Upahar hotel. Boards had written "namma metro phase 2 soil testing".

We didn't hear anywhere officially about the alignment of Phase 2 Namma Metro. Surprised to see this!!

Water Body encroachment opposite to Agara Lake

9 June 2009 - 9:44pm — check

Hi Everyone,

I am a new entrant to Praja.in. For the last 2-3 years I have been following Silkboard's blogs and now I thought may be I will add my observations.