HOT TOPICS
SPOTLIGHT AGENCIES
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BMTC's Trunk & Feeder services murali772 - 16-SEP-2013
BMTC has at long last announced commencement of the Trunk & Feeder Services (check here), which was what was envisaged when the Big-10 services were started. |
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murali772 - 31-JUL-2013
Duty calls, but they decided to hold the state on ransom to make their woes heard, by evading duty calls. Hundreds of drivers and paramedical staff of Arogya Kavacha (108 ambulance services) gathered at Freedom Park to press for their demands for job security and wage hikes on Sunday. |
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Ranking Buildings by Energy Use - New York has just published its data. Can we do it Bangalore. ashwin - 10-JAN-2013
Excerpt of an article in the New York Times. Doing this in Bangalore would be very powerful. Ofcourse we would have to measure not just the power pulled from Bescom but also that coming from onsite generators. But it should be doable. |
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Dry vs Oil type Power Transformers psaram42 - 12-SEP-2012
To minimize the iron loss during transmission, power needs to be transmitted at a very high voltage. Series of transformers reduce the voltage of the electricity supplied by the towers to a level suitable for use by the electric equipment in the city [220 domestic / 440 Industry]. |
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Can Sheila Dikshit make a success of water supply outsourcing? murali772 - 21-JUL-2012
Spurred by the success of power distribution privatisation in Delhi (check this), the Sheila Dikshit government is looking seriously at privatisation of water distribution also. |
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murali772 - 23-MAY-2012
The government has instituted very strict labour laws. But, unable to comply with them, even as they remain the biggest employers in the country, government organisations are openly flouting the laws, as comes out clearly in each of the following cases: |
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Coalgate: the cost of ideology murali772 - 2-APR-2012
The Left Front has always opposed amendment of the Coal Mines Nationalisation Act, 1973, that banned private coal mining, save for captive purposes. UPA-1 wanted to amend this Act in 2004 to allow private mining-after which truly competitive auctions would have become feasible. But the LF prevented any amendment. |
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Delhi Power Distribution privatisation - a model for all cities to follow? murali772 - 24-DEC-2011
Linked here is a ppt presentation on the transformation of the Delhi power supply scenario, at least in those parts coming under Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (TPDDL), over the 8 years since the taking over from the Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB). The information was obtained from TPDDL themselves. |
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types of public bus transport operations murali772 - 28-NOV-2011
Definitions extracted from M V Act 1988 (http://www.tn.gov.in/sta/Mvact1988.pdf) |
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Unique Property Records (UPR) programme murali772 - 25-NOV-2011
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