Car parking infrastructure and quality of urban spaces

murali772 - 16-NOV-2012

Even with improving public transportation like the metro, the demand for parking in public places will only increase due to the rapid increase in car numbers. - - - Governments are alive to the problem and have created different business models to build multilevel car parks in public places.

FIR against Home Minister

murali772 - 24-OCT-2012

The Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) has registered an FIR against Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka for granting four acres of bagair hukum land each to Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy and his wife K Prabha in Somanhalli village of Uttarahalli hobli.

e-Governance Award for BBMP’s PID System !

murali772 - 15-OCT-2012

The World e-Governments Organisation of Cities and Local Governments (WeGO) will award the Palike for its GIS based Property Identification (PID) Number system on November 12 in Spain.

Karnataka Pollution Control Board Chairman - Qualifications?

sanjayv - 24-SEP-2012

An interesting development caught my attention.  Would not have noticed in such detail if I was not following the PCB for some other issues.

Dr. Vaman Acharya (MBBS) has been appointed as chairman of the Pollution Control Board after the term of Mr. A.S. Sadashivaiah came to an end. This appointment has been subject of some PILs in court.

Daily TOI coverage on Garbage Crisis “The Muck stops here”

psaram42 - 14-SEP-2012

TOI has a daily coverage of the Garbage crisis for the past 23 days. To day’s TOI have 2 articles relating to Bangalore Garbage crisis.

1. The muck stops here Day 24 article by Sunita Rao
2. BSY Ananthkumar Tug of war

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How a Russian city got its politicians to do their work

murali772 - 13-SEP-2012

The video clip, linked below, shows how a Russian city managed to get the powers that be of the city to do their work. Can we possibly make such an approach work in Namma Bengaluru? Or, are our politicians too thick-skinned compared to those in Russia, or elsewhere? May be worth finding out.

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48WoNWYUy7g]

Muralidhar Rao

Fiddling with Section 14 (A) of the KTCP Act

murali772 - 2-SEP-2012

The state government, which is bringing in amendments to Section 14 (A) of the KTCP Act, will make the change of land use a money spinner for the BJP in the election year.

speak out against Talibanisation

murali772 - 17-AUG-2012

Jnanpith laureate U R Ananthamurthy says we must speak out against any attempt to Talibanize India. That is a responsibility we must not fear to wield.

For the full report in the ToI. click here.

GoK to implement report on land grabbing

murali772 - 13-AUG-2012

The Jagadish Shettar government is considering a proposal to revive the AT Ramaswamy committee report on encroachment of government land in Bangalore. The committee had unearthed over 40,000 acres of land worth Rs 50,000 crore encroached in and around Bangalore.

Undermining the Commissioner's authority

murali772 - 8-AUG-2012

It seems like there is no value for the BBMP Commissioner M K Shankaralinge Gowda’s orders. Eight of the 15 officials, who were transferred by him from the civic body’s Town Planning Department to other departments 10 days ago, are back in the same department using ‘political influence’.