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College bans private vehicles!!! Arun - 20-AUG-2009
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shekhar_mittal - 9-APR-2010
A meeting has been set up with Mr Tippeswamy (Ex-Bwssb) tomorrow. Thanks to Swati. The venue is the IISc Cafeteria. Time is 11am. Kindly confirm who all are coming. |
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BMTC - S1 Route (Vijayanagar to Vijayanagar) Ravi_D - 9-APR-2010
Saw these buses plying on outer ring road near BTM layout yesterday & today. Looks like an extension of Big10 concept, Big10 to Circle Routes to S (not sure what it stands for) routes? Surprisingly, while the BMTC call center did not have any detail to offer, the buses seemed to quite fully loaded!. I got bumped from the call center guy to the control room to Vijayanagar Bus Stand (22952362). All were cordial, willing to help, but had no info to offer. |
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vinod_shankar - 8-APR-2010
The NIOS - National of Open Schooling offers the following courses through various modes. See PPT attachment for all academic courses except vocational courses. |
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Local Trains vs Circular Rail For Bangalore Sanjeev - 8-APR-2010
Analysis of last three months discussion and media briefing by Shri MoS K H Muniyappa and CM Yeddiyurappa shows that MoS is favouring Circular Rail and CM is talking of Local Trains similar to Mumbai. Now we will see one more round of study by SWR / Railways for Circular Railway and wasting time on this. RITES study on Local Trains is not considered by MoS K H Muniyappa and no one is talking of this. Do any one have the details on Circular Rail what MoS K H Muniyappa is talking. We from Praja need to do some serious work so that both proposal Local Trains and Circular Train services are sanctioned for Bangalore.
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Karnataka State pollution control board (KSPCB) - active? manjari - 8-APR-2010
They have 10 offices in Bangalore alone (isnt that good news ;) |
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Renewing DL at the RTO without touts/bribes s_yajaman - 8-APR-2010
My wife and I went yesterday to the Indiranagar RTO to renew her DL. As soon as we stepped into "the zone" there were touts offering help. We, of course, ignored them and walked up to the RTO. As we walked up we realized that my wife's DL said "RTO BNG CENTRAL" (Koramangala) and we wondered what trouble that would mean. But we decided to check anyway. There was a helpdesk there. It was operational. We asked the lady there if we could renew the license here. She gave us the forms and asked us to check at Window 3 if it was possible. We also realized there was a medical fitness certificate (completely in Kannada) to be got from a doctor. At Window 3 there was a reasonably helpful lady. She told my wife that it was possible to do it there. She confirmed if the address remained unchanged. She asked us to write a letter requesting that the license be renewed there. We paid the Rs.250 fee at the cash counter and my wife went to get her MC done. |
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Traffic alerts on signboards - Variable Message Signboards (VMS) vlnarayan - 8-APR-2010
DH Reports : Bangalore, the first City in the country to have Variable Message Signboards (VMS) on roads and junctions. Four VMS were commissioned at Raja Ram Mohan Roy Road, Airport Road at Hebbal (two signboards - one towards airport and another towards City) and K R Puram (towards City). These boards are connected to Traffic Management Centre (TMC).
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manjari - 7-APR-2010
Times of India along with Janaagrah launch Bangalore Patrol (starting tomorrow) says the cover page of TOI today. I tried to look for it online but couldnt find a thing about the same. But if you have a TOI around check it out, it is impossible to miss. According to the Advertisement "Bangalore patrol involves a stringent ward infrastructure and services assessment programme with the singular aim of demanding direct evaluating and accountability from the local administrative and governance system." They will start with 5 essential civic rights of water supply, Mobility, Sanitation, Environment and Public amenities. It will measure the same in 198 wards. By doing so they intend to monitor the work of our newly elected representative's in each of the wards. In my opinion the best measure of performance and also at the same time we get a good idea about our city. |
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The Lok Satta Party public interactions meet with JP psaram42 - 7-APR-2010
After the recent BBMP election JP is visiting Bangalore in carrying forward the new party’s agenda. This interaction reminded us the probable scenario which might have prevailed at the time of freedom struggle. The fight now is against the middle class apathy ignorance and above all their pretence to know best according to JP.
JP stressed on the importance of local government. An increase in per capita income alone may make the country rich but still a banana republic. He felt that with proper management the malaise like power cuts etc can be avoided altogether.
To days scenario highlights the viciously guarded statues quo by our politicians. The confused nonchalance and apathy of the voters is a boon to them. Many levels of changes are needed. JP alluded to the two major types of corruption, the extortional and collusive type of corruption. Both kind of corruption are to be tackled.
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