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What purpose does the LokAyukta serve?

11 October 2013 - 11:20am — murali772

Following are the excerpts from the Supreme Court order dt 1st Oct, 2013, in the Anil Kumar & Ors. Vs. M.K. Aiyappa & ANR.(full text of the order may be accessed here), whereby it upheld the Karnataka High Court order quashing criminal proceedings initiated against senior IAS officer M.K.

What purpose does BMTF serve?

11 October 2013 - 11:13am — murali772
Urban Development

Holding that the power of the Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) is restricted to protecting public property and detecting unauthorized construction/encroachment on such land, the Karnataka high court on Thursday quashed the chargesheets and FIRs filed by BMTF against BBMP engineers for not stopping illegal construction on private properties.

Peter Newman on "Why Do We Need A Good Public Transport System" ?

10 October 2013 - 7:23pm — Sanjeev
Public Transport

By Peter Newman Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute Western Australia

Bus Day Fever - Petroleum Ministry to observe every Wednesday as 'Bus Day'

8 October 2013 - 8:18am — kbsyed61
Bus

Who had thought that one day 'Bus Day' observance will go places. Though in Bangalore it has relegated to a monthly ritual, since Feb 2010, it has been tried in many cities including Chennai, Cochin etc.

Blatant violations of rule of law

1 October 2013 - 5:38pm — murali772
Urban Development

Now, even as I had just finished publishing the post titled "re-assertion of the rule of law?", pertaining to the government clearing encroachments onto the Kaggadaspura lake (check this), I was hit by this bombshell of a post (full text below) on "SaveKoramangala Ya

Re-assertion of rule of law?

1 October 2013 - 5:04pm — murali772
Urban Development

Illegal apartment complexes, temples, coconut plantations, temporary sheds, buildings and compounds around Kaggadasapura lake in Varthur hobli will be brought down on Saturday, as the Bangalore Urban district officials will undertake a major eviction drive to clear the encroachments around the lake.

(Not so) Fun facts about community involvement

26 September 2013 - 5:35pm — wgwwd

Just trying to make a kind of retrospection of myself and a normal Praja alike.

Why most people do not engage in community work and or not interested in giving back to community?

What I mean Community work can be any of following:

Personal / Basic Layer.

Debris created after ganesha festival

25 September 2013 - 12:35pm — hemaraj
Pollution

I was passing by last week by yedyur lake after the ganesha festival and the imerge of the idols.

the debris that had created was huge.

a few years ago , only few were keeping the idols in the public,

today it has bcome competetion sort to keep bigger than each other locality,  area, and each other street and so on.

Namma Rasthe .. New Project for BRTS

25 September 2013 - 12:12pm — Vasanth
Bus

Hi Praja Admin,

Shall we have a new Project by name Namma Rasthe.. or whatever, we can have a poll for that infact for discussion on BRTS.

Namma Rasthe as said by buses, cycles and pedestrains procuring space from cars and other private vehicles. 

Data in Government offices - How safe are they?

24 September 2013 - 3:42pm — Vasanth

Today morning I had suprise visitors to my home from Bescom. Two men in a scooter, one person ready to remove the electric fuse at home. They came and suddenly asked for the receipt of last month's electricity bill. I had kept it somewhere and had to search all over home.

Concrete solution for Blr craters

19 September 2013 - 12:17pm — srinidhi

The notorious potholes (craters) are back with a bang after the rains and all major and minor roads are full of it to the extent that we need to search for those short stretches of decent roads left.

 

Parking Policy

19 September 2013 - 9:34am — Ravi_D
Private transport

Source: DH

New DULT report based parking policy is accepted by the BBMP concil, unanimousely. 

BMTC's encouraging mini bus talk - good going Mr Parwez

19 September 2013 - 8:59am — silkboard
Bus

Amidst all the press that BMTC is getting recently, one thing that caught attention was talk of mini buses, shuttles and feeder routes. As we all know, feeder plans, and solid execution of first/last mile connects can help increase usage of BMTC as well as (future) metro.

Here are the bytes I have picked up (read in print, so don't have links handy, will search and add later)

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