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Bescom ordered to pay Rs-50 compensation for long outage

25 February 2009 - 3:02pm — murali772

Consumer power rests on knowing your rights. You may remember cursing Bescom when there was a 21-hour power outage on April 29 and 30 last year. But this 73-year-old man did something more - he found out there is a provision for consumers to get compensation if power supply is interrupted beyond certain hours.
 

BBMP - Budget Preview?

25 February 2009 - 2:18pm — Ravi_D

Read some first snippets about upcoming BBMP Budget in DNA.

E-City Rail Link vs HSRL

25 February 2009 - 11:26am — s_yajaman

Mr.Sreedharan made a few statements about

a, Metro being unviable to airport - needs 40000/hr traffic.

b. Private players who have come forward will get put off by talk of alternative plans

Here is a plan for the private players which will better serve Bangaloreans

Namma Auto initiative - Updates :)

24 February 2009 - 10:09pm — veeracb

[See this post for details of Namma Auto initiative. Here are some updates on it.]

BMTC - focus areas and recent initiatives

24 February 2009 - 9:17pm — sudheendra.karri

Folks,

Taking things forward from our last Praja meet and to brain storm and plan activities on tracking BMTC initiatives, here's my bit to get things started on a few things that deserve note.

1. Big-10 and HOHO services - scalability and scope for improvements.
 

Benniganahalli bridge work underway

24 February 2009 - 5:02pm — srinidhi

Finally!! http://timesofindia.india...

Any idea if the pedestrians are taken care of?? If not, we need to immediately get their attention on this!

Car Fuel Subsidised

23 February 2009 - 11:00pm — Naveen

One of my danish colleagues had remarked that our country, instead of helping the poor & taxing the rich, was subsidising the car users with lower fuel costs since all oil imports were being sold at lesser price than what they actually cost in India.

Miscarriage of justice

23 February 2009 - 6:21pm — murali772

Whereas the magistrate should have been pulling up the police for not charging the perpetrators of the violent incidents targeted at women under more stringent sections, it is totally shocking that he has instead chosen to direct the police to register an FIR against Ms Renuka Chowdhry, and all just for stating that "Mangalore has been Talibanised".

"Only God can save Bangalore's pedestrians"

23 February 2009 - 5:04pm — s_yajaman

So said Dr. Subramanya sometime in Dec 2007.  It seems that pavements are optional in Bangalore.  BBMP can spend 100s of crores on tarring roads, acquiring land for useless road widening (check out the stretch just after Domlur leading to Command Hospital), building flyovers with signals on top of them, etc etc, but has little money to spend on building and maintaining pavements.

BBMP - More magic boxes coming!?

22 February 2009 - 3:55pm — silkboard

View from the Palace cross roadWhat exactly would be "precast RCC box segments of size 6m x 4.5m x 1m". Magic box, isn't it? Saw some tenders from BBMP calling for work to prepare "vehicular underpass" using these precast RCC segments at Mysore Road Deviation Junction. See the BBMP Ad for yourself:



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