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“Learn your way” awareness campaign

1 April 2010 - 5:49pm — surajnair

The students of CSIM, Bangalore, are organizing “Learn your way”, an awareness campaign for encouraging Open Schooling in Bangalore. This is an event to sensitize parents, teachers, children and adolescents towards the open schooling concept for a stress free education.

For years now, it has been widely recognized that the mainstream education system in our country is producing more dropouts every year than successful candidates, for various reasons. The recent spate of student suicides in the metro cities has jolted us and made us painfully aware that it is time for the citizens to wake up and act.

And there do exist solutions to these problems. One of them is a parallel system, fully recognized by the Government of India, which caters to the varying levels of intelligence and needs of a child. Through the National Open Schooling system, the largest system of alternate education anywhere in the world, a child can complete education at his/her own pace, with subjects of his/her own choice.

City Commute Survey

1 April 2010 - 5:44pm — bangalore-guy

We are trying to understand the preferences of people with respect to use of public/shared transportation for their daily commute in Bangalore.

Kindly spare 2-3 mins to fill the survey here : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S3NV9BT

Results will be shared with all.

thanks and regards,

Amit

 Tags : public transport, shared transport, city commute, bangalore

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Bangalore Master Plan 2015 - Where is this headed?

31 March 2010 - 10:06pm — deepak_here

I have read the Bangalore Master Plan 2015 for the first time.

I am happy to see the recommendations made after a structured study. ( Though I would have expected this to have more meat)

Proposal to increase fares

31 March 2010 - 4:38pm — ss87

Following the recent increase in fuel prices,BMTC is planning to increase the fares.The same was published in the bangalore mirror newspaper of yesterday. Owing to BBMP elections and results the bus fares will be mostly increased once the poll results come out.

Can Bangalore ban motorcycles ?

31 March 2010 - 4:02pm — Naveen

At some stage soon, auto-rickshaws & motorcycles will have to be banned or atleast, confined to city's outskirts to streamline traffic within the congested CBDs of Indian cities. Bangalore, with it's relatively richer citizens can perhaps lead the way in this!

A case study report, full of good explanatory maps & photos by Karl Fjellstrom, ITDP (dtd 15-Sep-2008) about how motorcycles were banned in a span of about 16 years can be downloaded from this link on filesanywhere.

Excerpts from this report are worth looking at (especially, the section "Lessons from Guangzhou’s successful motorcycle ban") in relation to our own future needs :


Gradual implementation

Online Store of GOK Unrepealed Acts

31 March 2010 - 12:56pm — Ravi_D

Found this online store, linking soft-copies of un-repealed acts of GOK. Yes, I did rub my eyes to make sure I wasn't dreaming. 

Not sure where to post it, category or Tags to use. Admins, feel free to classify this post as you deem fit.

http://164.100.80.70/acts/ACTS%20E/dept.htm

For the record, got to this website thru' 'Acts & Rules' link on GOK-UDD Home Page. 

Christ College Bus Stop Nightmares at Dairy Circle

30 March 2010 - 6:19pm — sunrise

Christ college bus stop immediately after Nandini dairy is becoming a hell day by day.

Narrow road, with two lanes (will say single lane after getting congested) fully occupied by autos and private buses stops happily for hours, on top of that BMTC buses will stop next to next on road, they will drive on competition basis giving night mares to the people driving behind.

There is no signal and if you see at the peak times, you will see the traffic jam up to dairy circle, with minimum of 200-300 vehicles got struck behind these mangoos arrogant drivers. And to cross just that bus stop will take 10-15mins in peak time.

What a great planning of Brurth Bangalore Mahanaga Palike (will say exactly as bakwaasss for bruhath). What a thought of these officials, should give the award of most complicated officials on earth. Their minds will work like mercury for money, not for the future of citizens and their comfort. And these guys should mind that they are also victims of the same?

On narrow roads, making bus stops, no planning for bus stops, did these planning guys have minds, how to implement bus stops. What a pathetic stage we are in?

BMTC Issues - From RCA perspective - 3

30 March 2010 - 5:02pm — Bheema.Upadhyaya

Few of the points mentioned in the survey  (in second set) is about bus stands/stops. 

1) Dirty and sad bus stands, do not like waiting there

2) Very hard to walk to and from the Bus Stands


We shall through some light on these items from RCA perspective.

Effect : Do not like waiting there. 

Causes: 

1) No adequate shelter(sad bus stands)

      - Damaged roofing

      - No roofing

 2) Poor furniture

   - Demolishing in progress

   - Repair

   - Damaged or vandalized

   - Unclean and not usable

   - Sharp edges or broken edges

   - Very old

   - No disabled friendly furnitures/path

 

3) Not Clean due to

     - Spitting (Pan and simple)

Bangalore Water Index Kickoff Meeting

30 March 2010 - 3:05pm — Neha_Dar
3 Apr 2010 11:00
Asia/Calcutta

A few of us are meeting on Saturday to kick off and plan the water index project. Details as follows:

Date: Saturday, 3rd April

Time: 11:00 am

Venue: Alliance Francaise

Agenda: Scope of index. Best representation. Parameters to be tracked. Information sources. Partners. Next steps.

Interested Praja members are welcome to join.

P.S.: You can read about the water index idea here.

the train and civil society ..an analogy

30 March 2010 - 1:18pm — vmenon

The train and civil society –an analogy

 
In a slightly lighter frame of mind, let me put down an analogy of civil society’s possible available methods to bring about change; and will try not to put down too many value judgments or pretend that this posting is of great academic and philosophical importance.This also comes from some frustrations ,seeing how some civil societies tussle for space.
 


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