Posts : Bangalore

Suranjan das road widening ... silver oaks cut!

srinidhi - 11-OCT-2010

I was completely taken aback when I saw stumps of the tall silver oaks in front of HAL engine div today morning..

Did some checking and found that

http://tenders.indiamart.com/details/582179824/ 

RTO Bangalore: My quest for answer has begun

raghavv - 11-OCT-2010

After avoiding dealing with government offices all these years, finally I am in the trap. Needed to visit RTO to renew my DL. After 2 trips to RTO I am still not able to prove to the officials where I stay. As per the RTO, I need some govt agency (be it LIC, BSNL, BESCOM, KEB) giving me my proof of my residence.

Ask Me service - Query on BMTC routes

ss87 - 11-OCT-2010

Based on major discussions in praja we have seen that the main issue in switching over to public transport is not knowing the routes of the buses as majority board are in Kannada only. Hence I just thought of starting this blog where any query regarding BMTC routes would be answered.

BMTC route allottment - sheet attached

ss87 - 10-OCT-2010

BMTC has recently launched a document providing the red board bus routes an dnumber of buses allocated to it along with the number of trips-though timings havent been provided I think we can make use of it a bit

I have attached the document along with the file-please go through the same

Tale of CWG website - 112 Crore spent?

kbsyed61 - 10-OCT-2010

We all boast of being keepers and makers of world's back office solutions and IT systems. The list includes designing the Boeing's dream-liner to Bosch's washer-dryer. Recently concluded Soccer world cup's IT systems were supposed to have been supported by Mahindra Satyam team. Compare to this when we step down on our local website's, are left with disappointments and nothing else.

The de-notification racket

murali772 - 9-OCT-2010

On February 5, 2010, ABIDe had written to the CM, anticipating problems likely to arise from the slew of denotification orders issued by the urban development department. It had termed these denotifications as ‘non-transparent’. The letter had also recommended that “the ad hoc denotification of notified property be stopped completely.

Bangalore Meter Jam (say no to Autos)

bansal - 8-OCT-2010

  

Limited stop volvos to ITPL

Anithasunil - 8-OCT-2010

The idea of having limited stop buses for routes such as Banashankari - ITPL has been discussed a lot in Praja. I have a new suggestion for the same.

BBMP systematically encouraged illegal buildings

kbsyed61 - 7-OCT-2010

Source - Cititen Matters:

New scam brewing at BBMP, their infra website, and a simple advice

silkboard - 7-OCT-2010

Recent reports in local dailies suggest that there may have been bogus or excess-spend projects to swindle money at BBMP. Apparently, some works were carried out without following all procedures, and good number of such projects involved road digging or similar work along the Metro corridor (where one would assume Metro itself would have taken up such work). Anyway, nothing new there.