Good opportuniy missed by the bad leadership at Karnataka Govt. and Elected representatives on Commuter Rail / Suburban Rail. Will Any heads roll for this mess in karnataka :
More then 6 years, this project is hanging at both GOK and Railway Minister side. Both of them have no interest / seriousness to implement the suburban rail bangalore except balming each other and making reports.
Already Bangalore people have suffered and will not have any big relief for next 10 years also.
Yes, its beyond doubt that TenderSURE is one of the best things to happen to Bengaluru..howver what is disconcerting is the veil of secrecy or the lack of information around it..the JUSP site mentions the following:
" this blog was posted here by me, more than three years ago and had positive response but, no action was taken in this regard. it is much more relevent now and it is high time we take action on this and make it successful.
I recently travelled to New Delhi and used city buses as well as saw many Marcopolo buses operating there, both Diesel and CNG without any problems and huge amount of smoke they emit in Bengaluru. Bangalore had many Marcopolo buses which although comfortable inside, was emitting too much smoke outside , low pickup and frequent failures.
The High Court on Monday issued notice to the state government on a public interest litigation questioning the veto power granted to councillors as chairpersons of ward committees under the Karnataka Municipal Corporations (KMC), Act, 1976.
Kejriwal said, “This project was sanctioned Rs 250 crores. But we have completed in Rs 150 crore. We have saved Rs 100 crore. And the work is done only within 9 months of coming to power.