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Third party to monitor civic works

8 February 2010 - 1:49pm — murali772

In order to ensure quality and speedy implementation of the works undertaken by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the civic body has hired a third party at a cost of over Rs 4 crore. Civil Aid Techno Clinic Pvt Limited has been chosen by the BBMP to monitor all projects undertaken by it in the city.

Houses for slum dwellers by Dec 2010

5 February 2010 - 2:42pm — murali772

Speaking after laying the foundation stone for construction of 1,500 houses in the Ragigudda slum at JP Nagar 2nd phase, the Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa said, “All 570 slums in the City will be rehabilitated under the JNNURM-BSUP scheme by Dec 2010 to make Bangalore a slum-free City".

Right model from the left?

2 February 2010 - 6:48pm — murali772

When even die-hard Socialists seem to be reconciled to letting perennially sick public sector units (PSUs) being either privatised or left to waste away, Kerala is showing another way. The state is not just propping up haemorrhaging PSUs but is pulling them out of the red; some are even making decent profits.

Don’t teach English to your children in Class I

31 January 2010 - 9:22am — murali772

Global research shows that children should learn reading and writing in their mother tongue first. Only after they can read fluently at a minimum of 45-60 words per minute can they absorb what they are reading. Such fluency is most easily achieved in the mother tongue. Once that is established, learning a second language becomes much easier.

English as social leveller

20 January 2010 - 12:44pm — murali772

The Supreme Court may have touted English as the flagbearer of knowledge economy but the role of the Queen's language as a "social leveller" is witnessing a renewed push for English education among weaker sections.

Exploitation of mineral wealth

18 January 2010 - 5:00pm — murali772

Jeffrey Lee in Australia is sitting on Uranium deosits which can provide 'clean' energy to the entire country for decades together and beyond. But, he is not interested in selling out even if it will make him amongst the richest men in the world (check this report in Daily Good).

JnNURM - boon or curse?

13 January 2010 - 2:52pm — murali772

The Union urban development ministry has pulled up the state government for failing to implement reforms it had agreed to bring in while receiving funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for various developmental project in Bengaluru and Mysore.

Stretcher cases and our money

7 January 2010 - 5:56pm — murali772

It is an extraordinary system where an equipment manufacturer for the telecom industry turns sick and remains sick just as an epoch-making boom takes place in the sector. Lakhs of private units make losses and are unable to cope with the market; only, they don’t have an automatic tap in the public treasury to keep going that way.

BBMP elections - People's manifesto - Mobility

6 January 2010 - 6:24pm — murali772

A group of active citizens (via HU email list) has come forward to put up what they are calling the "Jana Pranalike" or "People's Manifesto" to be placed before the candidates/ parties contesting the forth-coming BBMP elections.

Exemplary deed @ Kollegal

31 December 2009 - 12:18pm — murali772

Nothing could have made a better Christmas gift from Santa for jumbos! A crucial corridor used by more than a thousand elephants in Kollegal was purchased by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and transferred to the state government on Thursday.

Why Tata still doesn’t get it?

30 December 2009 - 3:26pm — murali772

Ratan Tata had this to say on the Singur debacle: “More often than not, conflicts related to land are promoted by individuals who do not belong to that area, but who have other political motives.” Quite so, but this, interestingly enough, was the exact position taken by British planters to stop Mahatma Gandhi’s first mass movement in India, the anti-indigo cultivation

Refreshing evolution

30 December 2009 - 3:06pm — murali772

For the faint-hearted, young men hitting their backs with a bunch of knives, tied together with a rope, has always been a visual torture if they ever witnessed one. But that has been always a practice for Muslims during Muharram.

Reconstitution of land and property - new alternative to TDR

24 December 2009 - 5:31pm — murali772

In what is now loud thinking, BDA, BBMP and urban-affairs officials are proposing a new scheme in town planning whereby there will be ‘reconstitution of land and property’ instead of acquisition.

House panel indicts Murthy for faulty airport design

23 December 2009 - 4:37pm — murali772

The Joint House Committee (JHC) probing the construction of the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) has indicted Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy, MP Rajeev Chandrashekar, bureaucrats V P Baligar, K Jairaj and other officials for "faulty" design and construction.

Pay-and-park put on hold

23 December 2009 - 10:37am — murali772

Contradictory views and ambiguity shroud many developmental projects. While the agencies and stakeholders continue to dream big, at the end of the day, the projects seem to be just a pipedream. Plans have been made for many multi-storeyed parking plazas and at least 100 on-street parking lots, but the parking policy for the city is itself not clear.

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