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Suggestion of Revision of train services between Bangalore and Mysore after track doubling

25 October 2008 - 9:33am — Vasanth

Mysore Bangalore track doubling is going to be completed by 2011. But, this is not the end of the woes to the travellers. The effective utilization of the doubled track by railways is the key to success.

Parliamentary committee recommends UDF witdrawal, reopening HAL

24 October 2008 - 10:04pm — Devesh

In what is sure to be a shock, to both the BIAL and HIAL consortia, the Deccan Chronicle reports, the parliamentary standing committee on transport, tourism and culture, on Thursday October 23, recommended immediate withdrawal of user development fees (UDF) being charged by Hyderabad and Bengaluru airports.

Single body for all transportation works - Pune does it

24 October 2008 - 10:00am — silkboard

Learning from mistakes and gaps at other cities - Pune could be doing that. Read this morning, with great interest that Pune has created a special purpose vehicle called Pune Infrastructure Development Corporation (PIDC). Quoting this story (PIDC cleared), this body will be:

Pune Metro - lets start tracking it here

24 October 2008 - 9:22am — silkboard

A detailed project report for Pune Metro should be due out anytime now. Newspaper reports back in Aug had said the DPR should be out in a month. Not sure if it is out yet. Back on early 2007, Delhi Metro had floated several tenders for detailed project report (DPR) of Pune Metro.

View from a Grain of Sand

23 October 2008 - 11:08pm — DeepikaNBhardwaj
25 Oct 2008 17:30
25 Oct 2008 19:00
Asia/Calcutta
A must watch for people interested in international issues. Documentary Screening by pedestrian pictures. VIEW FROM A GRAIN OF SAND dir. Meena Nanji 2004/82 mins/English

Dreaming Challaghatta Bagh - big new lung space for Bangalore

23 October 2008 - 10:00am — silkboard

Park Possible?You may remember reading this last year - Army to close Agara Farm. Each time I am on Inner Ring Road or Sarjapur Road around Agara, I wonder what use is Army putting this vast stretch of Land into. Thanks a million to them, we don't have another middle class slum developing and congesting this area. But if they don't have any serious use planned right now, would they be game to lease it out to us (the citizens) to help create a nice big park cum eco preservation area!? Challaghatta Bagh anyone!?

Meeting with Mr Ashok Kheny - **postponed**

22 October 2008 - 9:44am — admin
28 Oct 2008 11:00
28 Oct 2008 12:30
Asia/Calcutta

Update: 9:30 pm, Oct 27: Something urgent came up at Mr Khney's end for tomorrow morning. He sincerely apologized for this late notice, and promised to do this next weekend or the one after. The tomorrow morning's meeting stands postponed.

Voter Registration Made Easy for MNC employees - Filled forms collected at Company premises!!

21 October 2008 - 1:17pm — votedeindia

For MNC employees, it doesn't get any easier to get their names on voter list. Forms can be filled at their office desks, and submit the filled/signed forms to VoteDeIndia booth that is setup right next to their Cafeterias.

Outer Ring Road project - work first, tender later?

21 October 2008 - 2:09am — silkboard

ORR tenderIt was a bit puzzling to spot this tender from BDA in newspapers last week. Dated Oct 15, it called for "Improvements to Service Road of Outer Ring Road from Marathalli underpass to Central Silk Board junction (missing bits)". At least on the tenderwizard site (click for all recent BDA tenders), there is no other older tender calling for improvements to these service roads. The puzzling part however is this. Service Road improvement work is already in full swing! In fact, I have been noticing digging work for over a month now.

Water water everywhere

21 October 2008 - 1:42am — silkboard

Did you too notice a spate of water supply related news and announcements recently? Perhaps some influential  individual or minister has water on his mind. Have a look:



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