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Will Green Bonus save the forests around Gundia?

19 October 2009 - 11:30pm — deepakar

The environment ministry has declared a reward system called "Green Bonus" as an incentive for states to protect and increase their green cover. The details of this scheme are not out yet but it sure sounds interesting. I do hope that this comes out as early as possible.

Big10 Corridor improvement - good intentions

19 October 2009 - 10:52pm — silkboard

Some good intentioned work seems to have been kicked off on the Big10 corridor this side of the city. From what I can see, the HAL Airport Road, Varthur Road Big10 corridor is seeing some upgrades towards:

BMTC best, BDA worst

19 October 2009 - 8:13pm — silkboard

Sorry for that catchy headline there. But we, a bunch of nobodies, group of mostly no-namers, have tried reaching out to various local bodies in Bangalore over past year for few things here and there. We have also seen and heard about other citizen's (may or may not be Praja members) attempts at connecting with city's local bodies.

Towards Copenhagen: Discussion at CED

19 October 2009 - 6:05pm — shekhar_mittal
21 Oct 2009 14:30
Asia/Calcutta
Bangalore Platform

invites you to the panel discussion on Climate Change

Storm Water Management and compulsary RWH

19 October 2009 - 2:02pm — psaram42
21 Oct 2009 10:30
21 Oct 2009 12:00
Asia/Calcutta

Place #23 Old Madras Road, Ulsoor, Bangalore, India. 

Discussions with Mr. Indraneel Dutta about Storm water Management and RWH in view of Compulsory RWH for 2400 sq ft and above site properties in the city.

Whose Responsibility Are These?

19 October 2009 - 11:15am — E.R. Ramachandran

Do we have accidents waiting to happen at every turn?

Road width over pavement - Marathahalli example

19 October 2009 - 10:35am — silkboard

First of all, credits to BDA or BBMP or ABIDe (who knows!?) or whoever is thinking about bus interchange points like Marathahalli ring Road and improving the pedestrian amenities there. So yes, something is better than nothing. However, if you watch the work, uncalled for and unscietific preference to road width over pavement is visible. Sample some pictures.

Long pending Civic Elections

18 October 2009 - 9:43am — psaram42

The way the BWSSB, in the absence of BBMP elected mayor and his team, is going ahead with its job of planning and maintaining the city infrastructure is not acceptable. Reference is made to the earlier two threads on the subject on SWD. 

Bangalore - Governance

17 October 2009 - 1:29am — silkboard

Namma Bengaluru's struggle to manage its growth is partly a result of its broken governance structure. Central area of city had a municipality, which was expanded to cover sorrounding areas much after chaos has crept in on the peripheries. Even after the expansion, certain critical areas like transportation and water are not directly controlled by the local government.



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