Maintenance of the storm water drainage system

psaram42 - 12-JUN-2009

When the boy Abhishake died BBMP attracted the ire of whole Bangalore. Subramanya some how was always in a fighting mood. He even put a case against the Loka Aukata himself, which attracted the wrath of the CM Mr. Yediyurappa.

Storm Water Drains and BBMP budget

Ravi_D - 1-SEP-2008

Vehicles, animals and now people floating in rain water pools - Sound familiar?

Deja vu. Examples: Today's Deccan, Friday's Deccan

For once, let us forget what happens with the money spent. But what if the allocation was never spent? Attached PDF is an extract from BBMP's budget document.

This morning on Mysore Road

Ravi_D - 21-JUL-2008

I’m new to Praja and this is my first post. My apologies if I managed to mess things up posting this. Ha, and thanks to folks who were so cordial at the TWG meeting on Saturday!

Travelling this morning on Mysore Road, got caught in a big mess. Unusual that early in the morning. Cause: Vrushabhavati Drain at the ORR junction obviously overflowed after rains last night. Intersection was full of a grand mixture of mud, litter and water. Crews were trying to clean up in the middle of the traffic. And that too with their hands! Not a single clean-up machine at work.

Need for a water regulatory authority

tsubba - 9-JUL-2008

Latha K. Rao Chairperson BWSSB. source: Zenrainman's channel http://youtube.com/user/zenrainman

BWSSB's plans

tsubba - 18-JUN-2008

Finally, a plan/proposal/idea that shows some clear out of the box thinking and goes beyond the currently fashionable gospels of maintenance, sustenance and development models. In rediscovering the original purpose of many of these man-made lakes of bangalore - as a source of potable water - bwssb might have hit upon a truely sustainable 'novel' idea to save our lakes.

Road over drains - the project is back

silkboard - 29-MAR-2008

It was just over an year ago when BBMP talked about the project - about 250 km of roads over Bangalore's storm water drains. Local papers, when covering BBMP budget today, are saying that this project is now funded. Here is a quote from TOI:

Roads over storm water drains - what happened?

silkboard - 16-OCT-2007

Remember this interesting call for expression of interest that appeared on BBMP website earlier this year (here):

"BBMP intends to create a road net work above the main storm water drain wherever feasible ... total length of primary and secondary drain net work is 250 km spread over the entire city."