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Lake 2010

25 July 2010 - 8:01pm — sanjayv

First notification of the Lakes 2010 conference in December

http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/IISc_Lake2010_India.pdf

I came across this interesting document while surfing around on the BBMP website for Qtr2 09-10. It is a fairly large report sent to quarterly to the central government on the status of various JNNURM projects implemented by the BBMP. It makes interesting reading. I think a careful perusla and analysis will shed a lot of light on how projects are run and the attitude of the govt officials towards the public.

Here is a snapshot from the item on the Tagore circle underpass.

Tender release date: 25/09/2007, Scheduled date: October 2008

Budget: 2318 lakhs

Reason for delay: Project not started due to non-cooperation by the public.MLA intervention is sought. Issue is being "solved".

Eh? The public is an impediment. in the path of progress. A problem!

Link to the report here.

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BMLTA wants feedback on BRTS

20 January 2010 - 10:53pm — sanjayv

In an article on Citizen Matters, titled "Bus Rapid Transport for Bangalore, today or tomorrow", Mr. Mohammad Mohsin, commissioner of the BMLTA has invited citizen feedback on BRTS in Bangalore. I sent him a private message via the CM website to come post his query on Praja for thoughtful (and an earful) of responses.

Whitefield TTMC - work in full swing

16 January 2010 - 11:23pm — sanjayv

I passed by the Whitefield TTMC, which is located near the Vaidehi hospital within the EPIP Industrial zone. Construction is ongoing, in full swing. Once again, I cannot help being disappointed at the choice of location of this TTMC. This is in the middle of an Industrial zone. All the residential areas are well removed from here.

Updates from the Railway Minister

30 December 2009 - 9:21pm — sanjayv

There was an article in The Hindu today citing an announcement by Shri K. H. Muniyappa, MoS Railways- see link here.

Gammon and the Metro - is there a safety concern?

30 December 2009 - 6:12pm — sanjayv

After the recent bridge collapse in Rajasthan on the E-W corridor involving Gammon, am beginning to wonder about who would conduct a proper audit of the company's practices? Since Bangalore Metro has offloaded a portion of the work to Gammon, this is particularly worrying for us. There are three major accidents that have been reported in the national press.

Guidelines for BBMP Engineers

20 December 2009 - 12:21pm — sanjayv

There was a report in the Hindu today that a book on guidelines for construction and maintenance of city roads was released yesterday. The author is a retired chief engineer of the PWD, Sri K. N. Shivashankara Rao. This will be an excellent book to get a copy of and review. Is geometrical design covered? Are pedestrian facilities covered? How about utilities?

DULT links to Praja

17 November 2009 - 9:01pm — sanjayv

I was reviewing the DULT website and realized that they have a link to Praja there. . Praja is described as a Bangalore based internet driven community on urban issues.

Motor Vehicles Act 1988

11 October 2009 - 4:13pm — sanjayv

This is actually an all India article. I am posting it under Bangalore, Karnataka because this particular announcement is relevant to this state.

Brainstorming Session on Conservation and Management of Urban Lakes - A Report

27 September 2009 - 5:06pm — sanjayv

The meeting was held in CiSTUP seminar room from 9 am to 5 pm. The room was full with a good complement of students.

We had the initial round of formalities followed by morning tea/breakfast

The morning session had several speakers discusing various aspects of urban lake conservation after which we had an afternoon discussion/brainstorming session

BWSSB Rain Water Harvesting rules

24 September 2009 - 9:19pm — sanjayv

Folks, The draft rules for the BWSSB Rain Water Harvesting Amendment Act 2009 have been published on the BWSSB website. They have generously provided one whole week for feedback from the general public. See the rules here.

Prof Ramachandra @ IISc - meeting report

7 September 2009 - 2:56pm — sanjayv

Attendees (meeting): Manjari, Shekar, Deepak, Sanjay, Naveen, Srivatsava, Pranav, Ritesh

BDA 2009-2010 budget

30 August 2009 - 6:24pm — sanjayv

I happened to notice the BDA budget for 2009-2010 on their website. Click here to see it.

Commercial topics policy

6 August 2009 - 1:38pm — sanjayv

Concrete curing

3 August 2009 - 6:12pm — sanjayv

Someone asked me this the other day and I did not know for sure.

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