BBMP and its future

idontspam - 31-JAN-2010

BBMP chief wants to quit

Let's Rebuild Bengaluru

murali772 - 30-JAN-2010

Discussions on Bengaluru's Future - Enough is Enough - Lets Rebuild Bengaluru

Frozen projects in Karnataka

idontspam - 19-JAN-2010

Glance through a sheet of government data and it’ll reveal that the number of projects actually implemented out of the total projects cleared in the State is shockingly low.

Koramangla Smartvote: Check your name on the voters list

shekhar_mittal - 19-JAN-2010

Folks at Koramangla Smartvote have come up with a very cool way of checking out your name in the voters list. 

If you want to check your name on the voter list try it out here http://smartvote.in/voterlist/viewvoters.php

Exploitation of mineral wealth

murali772 - 18-JAN-2010

Jeffrey Lee in Australia is sitting on Uranium deosits which can provide 'clean' energy to the entire country for decades together and beyond. But, he is not interested in selling out even if it will make him amongst the richest men in the world (check this report in Daily Good).

Lakes of Bangalore - My contribution

Prashant.Murthy - 16-JAN-2010

Hi,

This is my initiative to understand the current state of all lakes in bangalore. I think this year 2010, i will visit each lake and get the photos of them and post in a blog. This we can use it in our future references.

Somehow I feel that the lakes in bangalore are dwindling and I am not doing anything about it. This is my attempt towards it.

Hubli-Dharwad JnNURM

tsubba - 17-JAN-2010

http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/17/stories/2010011752610300.htm

Hubli-Dharwad to be brought under JNNURM

Union Minister for Urban Development Jaipal Reddy has said that Hubli-Dharwad would be included under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in the second phase.

Right to Information (RTI) act

psaram42 - 14-JAN-2010

 RTI is a powerful tool provided by the Government of India and in tern by each of the individual States. Of late TOI and many news papers have taken the RTI route to expose scams themselves. To days TOI carried the details of the RWA meet organized by the paper yesterday (Wednesday).

JnNURM - boon or curse?

murali772 - 13-JAN-2010

The Union urban development ministry has pulled up the state government for failing to implement reforms it had agreed to bring in while receiving funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for various developmental project in Bengaluru and Mysore.

Training for BBMP corporatorship aspirants

murali772 - 13-JAN-2010

Urban Research Centre (URC) is a registered society, a non-profit organization – action-researching on decentralization, governance, globalization and environment. Urban Research Centre (URC) is working in the Coastal cities, Mangalore and Udupi towns with Civil society, Corporators (elected representatives) and the Urban local governments on participatory governance.