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Meeting with Mr Manivannan, DC, Mysore (Venue changed to Bangalore)

23 June 2009 - 11:34am — murali772
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Bangalore PRAJA members have from long been eager for a direct meeting with Mr Manivannan, a bureaucrat who has had no reservations about interacting with them through the net. The meeting that had been planned some months back in Mysore had to be called off at the last minute because of some disturbances there.

Minister asks KSPCB to withdraw closure notices on served on govt hospitals

22 June 2009 - 1:18pm — murali772

Medical Education Minister Ramachandre Gowda has said that the government would direct the beleaguered Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to withdraw the closure notice slapped by it on nine government hospitals for lack of permanent effluent treatment plants (ETPs).

Heritage areas in Mysore to be spruced up

22 June 2009 - 11:46am — murali772

If the tourism department has its way, the core heritage zone in the city - like the Palace, Town Hall and Chamundi Hills — would undergo a complete makeover by the time Mysore Palace celebrates its centenary in 2012.

Storm Water Drains - planning aspects

21 June 2009 - 7:11pm — RKCHARI

Friends, To the best of my knowledge, the storm water drains presently in vogue in Bangalore (and I guess in most other Indian cities) is built on the lines of that existed in Roman cities 2000 years back. 

Sanitary Drainage System the bane of Bangalore Lakes

21 June 2009 - 8:49am — psaram42

 The Sanitary Drainage System in a Mega city like Bombay, and our own Bangalore for an instance, is a source of persistent annoyance leading to exasperation.

Monthly Praja meet 20 June 2009

20 June 2009 - 11:33am — psaram42

The meeting at Ravi_D’s office at Cunningham Rd was well attended by 15+ members including a couple of new Praja members.

It was good to see Pranav after his well deserved Holiday

He briefed us about a concrete road map for taking Praja forward. In a nut shell it is

Bangalore - Water

19 June 2009 - 8:38pm — sanjayv

This is a book to cover various aspects of water in Bangalore.  This will be populated slowly. The goal is to cover the following aspects.

Subramanya's legacy

19 June 2009 - 11:29am — murali772

The power of the Magic Boxes and the Tragic Hoaxes he invented can be assessed by confining ourselves to just one of his gifts to BB – the VIP road from Golf Club Circle to Mekhri Circle. That short stretch of “signal-free highway” is a signal contribution by the visionary in Subramanya.

The Black Gold of Bangalore

19 June 2009 - 8:44am — psaram42

 When we visited the KC Valley sewage water treatment plant on Monday the 15th June 2009 the one thought that struck me was that the product of this treatment plant is infact a black gold. We were told that this material is transported by trucks free of cost. obviously, I thought. 

Shouldn't EIA apply to Kukke temple 'development' also?

18 June 2009 - 1:09pm — murali772

The Minister for Housing and Endowment, Sri Krishnaiah Setty (though he has just stepped down, I am not sure the proposal will get shelved) had stated that Shree Kukke Subramanya temple, deep in the middle of dense rain forests, would be developed at a cost of Rs 180 crore, and the department has already issued work order for Rs 60 crore.



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