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Someone (BPAC?), please fund a CIO for Bangalore

19 May 2013 - 6:45pm — silkboard
Governance

"Can't fix it if you can't measure it". That is what a lot of people say. There is a lot that gets measured by BBMP/BMTC/BWSSB/BESCOM/BDA etc. But we just don't get to see. Want GIS data used for creating masterplan to be public? Want to know the city's water consumption, and inflow from each source every day?

First hearing in the High Court - June 3

19 May 2013 - 5:39pm — silkboard
3 Jun 2013 09:30
Asia/Calcutta

Just marking the date. June 3. First hearing in the High Court on this PIL.

We are not sure how many people can actually join in at the court. Need to check with the lawyer if 10-12 of us can join in. But if you are interested to attend, please do leave a comment here. One of us will respond on how many can come.

Watch this post for more details on this first hearing.

Building and Other Debris Dumping

19 May 2013 - 12:34pm — Bheema.Upadhyaya

Another face of  keeping city clean is debris management and recycling. I am seeing it equally responsible as garbage.  If we watch carefully we will find debris everywhere. We can manage dry and wet waste somehow, but debris is hard to manage. Some tractor has to come and we should have labour and tools dispose it. Also where to dispose debris is a *big* question.

Mis-carriage of criminal justice

18 May 2013 - 10:36am — murali772

In the midst of the recent Karnataka assembly election campaigning, a member of a certain popular yahoo-group suddenly came up with a posting that Dr Ashwin Mahesh, the LokSatta candidate from Bommanahalli constituency, has a criminal record.

Revisit Bicycling enablement approach?

18 May 2013 - 8:20am — idontspam

After sitting thru lessons from the Jayanagar cycle lanes rollout, the various DPR's that have been presented for different areas, polls by Praja both online & offline during mobilicity & practical experience riding on Bangalore streets we could be doing this a lot more effectively.

Battle of Good Vs Bad - Autorikshaw Driver Vs Ranbaxy, IPL

17 May 2013 - 4:27pm — kbsyed61
Governance

What a week! 3 news items that made headlines are worth taking note of.

Land sharks and problems

16 May 2013 - 6:24am — hemaraj

Our land in Muniswamy Layout in ward no 195 is under land sharks, though we are the owners of the land , i have been threatened not to enter the layout, we will be beaten up.

Designing Storm Water drains a report

15 May 2013 - 12:02pm — psaram42

 

The event "Designing Storm water Drains" was attended by 4 of us, all residents of Indira nagar area in general.

1.     Self

2.     Pathy ,

Designing Storm Water Drains

13 May 2013 - 11:33am — psaram42
14 ಮೇ 2013 10:00
14 ಮೇ 2013 11:00
Asia/Calcutta
Environment

Currently the 9th main in HAL 3rd stage, Bangalore is witnessing SWD refurbihing and foot path tiling activity. The space between the SWD and tared portion of the road is being tiled.

Bike stand specifications..

12 May 2013 - 3:00pm — srinidhi

So finally we have the bike stand commissioned at the Airlines today with a short ceremony..

The specifications for the above stand is as below:



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