April 2010

Public screening in Bangalore of 'The Truth About Tigers' April 23rd

20 April 2010 - 12:27pm — shekhar_mittal

Start: 23 Apr 2010 19:30

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

Dear all:

This is a must see for all people interested in wildlife conservation. Details below. Can you please pass it on the entire wildlife community (students, researchers, scientists, NGOs, etc.)?

THE TRUTH ABOUT TIGERS

A film by Shekar Dattatri, Duration: 40 minutes

Screening on Friday 23rd April at 7:30pm sharp at Alliance Française Bangalore. There are limited seats so please take yours by 7:15pm. The screening will be followed by an interactive Q&A with renowned tiger scientist Dr. Ullas Karanth and Shekar Dattatri.

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Public screening of " Water and A City": April 22nd 2010

20 April 2010 - 12:30pm — shekhar_mittal

Start: 22 Apr 2010 15:30

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

CiSTUP and a few folks at praja.in are organising a public screening of the documentary "Water and a City". Everyone is cordially invited.

Please spread the word and inform who ever you think will be interested.

Date: 22nd April 2010

Time: 5.30 pm

Venue: Golden Jubilee Seminar Hall, Civil Engineering Dept, IISc, Bangalore

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion. The confirmed panelists are

Prof Mohan Kumar, Deptt of Civil Engineering
Mr Thangaraj, Former Principal Secretary, Urban Development

How about an RTI Club on Praja?

19 April 2010 - 12:28am — silkboard

Wanted to float a suggestion, just to check on feasibility and response from other users on this e-community. Many discussions, as well as projects here get into a situation where we need official records or status from local government or public agencies. In few cases, we get such information by just asking for it (email to BMTC, BMRCL etc). But in many cases, we end up with needs for RTI (Right to Information) applications. Almost every project here on Praja too needs support in terms of RTI filings.

How about we create an RTI Club here on Praja? Members of this club would basically "assembly line" the RTI filing process in domain neutral way. Let me list the mechanics:

Meeting with Gautham Ravichander from WISA-Janaagraha

18 April 2010 - 2:44pm — shekhar_mittal

I met Gautham Ravichandar who is co-ordinating the new WISA project at Janagrahaaa. I wanted to find out the extent to which they are tracking water in their index and see if there is any way we can collaborate.

So, WISA has hired around 50 people who are going to each and every ward to collect the required info. Once TOI publishes the data they plan to make it open for everyone. I am not sure whether they will make it online but people can go to their office and access that data.

Their focus is more on creating some sort of a quality of life index. The categories they are going to cover are

1. BWSSB Supply - 1 thing to notice is that the plan to track the BIS Benchmarks measuring with the help of a NABH accredited lab.

2. Parks and Playgrounds

3. Sewage and Sanitation - Public Toilets

4. Mobility

5. Environment - Air Pollution, Green Cover

Need Volunteers for Sample Collection

18 April 2010 - 3:10pm — shekhar_mittal

Building on to the post made here and here

Janaagraha is collecting collecting info related to BWSSB water supply in all the wards. They need volunteers who agree to get pressure meters installed in their houses and provide water samples to Janagrahaa. Janagrahaa folks will come to your house and install the meter themselves. You won't have to do anything.

The data generated will be useful for the water index which we are doing at Praja as well.

Volunteering for this requires no effort at all so I hope anybody who sees this post should agree to doing it.

Kindly make a comment giving your details: Area of Residence, Ward Number if you know it, contact details etc.

Thanks

Shekhar Mittal

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