Vehicle to People ratio in Bangalore

idontspam - 29-SEP-2010

google.load('visualization', '1', {'packages':['motionchart']}); google.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart); function drawChart() { var data = new google.visualization.DataTable(); data.addColumn('string', 'Fruit'); data.addC

BBMP Budget - 2010-11

Ravi_D - 31-AUG-2010

2010-11 BBMP Budget is out, first from an elected body after a long while. Saw the print edition of DH with some details of it, their website is currently down. Will link up after it wakes up!.

In the mean time, read the headlines from today's Hindu here.

Public service delivery in Indian cities

idontspam - 28-AUG-2010

 Here is a review of a book on urban spending. It substantiates most of what we have been saying variously on Praja. The review highlights an example of how BBMP is spending 32 times lesser than the norm for streetlights. This translates into lower coverage and bad maintenance.

BIAAPA - Bangalore International Airport Area Planning Authority

Ravi_D - 23-AUG-2010

Sharing a not so familiar 'authority', notified in '96. http://biaapa.in/. Found this website trying to research ITIR.

Hawking - the questions rise again

murali772 - 21-AUG-2010

Recently, a group of residents from certain streets in Koramangala petitioned to the ward level authorities to evict food-vending hawkers from the neighbourhood. Some were on pavements and some occupied vacant plots. After many meetings, the authorities obliged. In some cases, the carts reappeared the same day.

BDA dear, where is all the GIS/map data on Bangalore?

silkboard - 8-AUG-2010

It is frustrating, as well as shameful. For any thinking, planning, discussions, whether for us citizens, or the government, one basic thing needed in public domain is a map. Not talking a simple map, but something that shows boundaries and jurisdictions of local govenrments, and also its assets (fire stations, water pumping stations, police stations, roads, rails, parks, lakes etc etc).

Shrines on public spaces to go

murali772 - 3-AUG-2010

In a courageous move, the Karnataka government has decided to crack down on unauthorized religious shrines, including temples, churches, mosques and gurdwaras, which encroach upon roads, parks, storm water drains and other public places.

Incompetent BBMP?

kbsyed61 - 2-AUG-2010

It is time to ask some tough questions on BBMPs competencies to maintain the Bengaluru City's civic infrastructure. Looking at various mishaps and neglect by BBMP becomes very apparent that BBMP does not have the technical and administrative competencies to create and maintain the civic infrastructure.

Do Water & Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Acts cover housing complexes?

murali772 - 31-JUL-2010

When the KSPCB sent us a notice for the first time in May, '07, I, as the then President of the association, raised a query with them as under:

Ours is a high-rise apartment complex comprising 126 dwelling units, situated at the above address. The only waste we generate is the sewage from toilets which is discharged into the BWSSB sewage line running below the main road adjoining our complex, for which BWSSB is levying us a 'sanitory charge', as a part of the monthly water bill. As such, please advise on what basis your organisation should be levying any annual 'consent fee' on our complex.

Isn't it true of our situation too ?

E.R. Ramachandran - 27-JUL-2010

Isn't this true  of us too? Probably few thosands vs. One Billion++.....