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“Learn your way” awareness campaign surajnair - 3-APR-2010
The students of CSIM, Bangalore, are organizing “Learn your way”, an awareness campaign for encouraging Open Schooling in Bangalore. This is an event |
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shekhar_mittal - 3-APR-2010
Participants: Vishwanath Sir, Jenny, Rajesh Shah, Neha Dar, Rithesh, Shekhar, Srivatsva, Swati Dandekar We met today at Alliance Francaise to define the scope of the water index and chalk out our next steps.
1. Pipe Water a. Hours of Supply b. Coverage - Percentage of households having a bwssb connection. c. Unaccounted for Water- Calculated by measuring the amount of water that BWSSB bills to the amount of water that it supplies. d. Slum Coverage - Percentage coverage in slums. BWSSB mandates that every household in a slum must be given a water connection. |
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Town Planning –Principles Summary psaram42 - 3-APR-2010
Town planning principles are age old. Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) who visited Bangalore in his days, classified the towns in three main categories depending on three stages of development:-
Here is a Lewis Mum ford book “The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects” review :- |
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Bus stands on the outskirts to decongest traffic muthusubs - 2-APR-2010
Building bus stands on the outskirts of a city is a concept which has been widely developed throughout Tamil Nadu. None of the inter-state buses today enter the interiors of towns like Madurai, Tirunelveli, Dharmapuri and even Chennai has its bus stand quite far away from the main city centre though the city has expanded beyond the present bus stand. |
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Mysore Road - Choke Point 1 - Guddadahalli Junction Srivatsava - 2-APR-2010
The BBMP has propsed that the stretch from Sirsi Circle to Gali Anjaneya Temple on Mysore Road be widened. This involves chopping trees all along the stretch. These are already well-known plans from the news reports and praja discussions. There are a couple of estimates on the number of trees to be chopped some saying 50 and some 100+. But, lets not be get into the numbers. Whats important is to find ways to solve the bottleneck without chopping the trees, if any available. Mysore Road starts from KR Market. Vehicles zip across from Town hall on the flyover for about 2.5 kms, pass over the Sirsi Circle, and get struck at the ramp of the flyover. Why ? There is a choke point immediately after the flyover (about 150mts away).
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“Learn your way” awareness campaign surajnair - 1-APR-2010
The students of CSIM, Bangalore, are organizing “Learn your way”, an awareness campaign for encouraging Open Schooling in Bangalore. This is an event to sensitize parents, teachers, children and adolescents towards the open schooling concept for a stress free education. For years now, it has been widely recognized that the mainstream education system in our country is producing more dropouts every year than successful candidates, for various reasons. The recent spate of student suicides in the metro cities has jolted us and made us painfully aware that it is time for the citizens to wake up and act. And there do exist solutions to these problems. One of them is a parallel system, fully recognized by the Government of India, which caters to the varying levels of intelligence and needs of a child. Through the National Open Schooling system, the largest system of alternate education anywhere in the world, a child can complete education at his/her own pace, with subjects of his/her own choice. |
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bangalore-guy - 1-APR-2010
We are trying to understand the preferences of people with respect to use of public/shared transportation for their daily commute in Bangalore. thanks and regards, Amit Tags : public transport, shared transport, city commute, bangalore http://donateyourpc.wordpress.com |
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Bangalore Master Plan 2015 - Where is this headed? deepak_here - 31-MAR-2010
I have read the Bangalore Master Plan 2015 for the first time. I am happy to see the recommendations made after a structured study. ( Though I would have expected this to have more meat) |
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ss87 - 31-MAR-2010
Following the recent increase in fuel prices,BMTC is planning to increase the fares.The same was published in the bangalore mirror newspaper of yesterday. Owing to BBMP elections and results the bus fares will be mostly increased once the poll results come out. |
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Can Bangalore ban motorcycles ? Naveen - 31-MAR-2010
At some stage soon, auto-rickshaws & motorcycles will have to be banned or atleast, confined to city's outskirts to streamline traffic within the congested CBDs of Indian cities. Bangalore, with it's relatively richer citizens can perhaps lead the way in this! A case study report, full of good explanatory maps & photos by Karl Fjellstrom, ITDP (dtd 15-Sep-2008) about how motorcycles were banned in a span of about 16 years can be downloaded from this link on filesanywhere. Excerpts from this report are worth looking at (especially, the section "Lessons from Guangzhou’s successful motorcycle ban") in relation to our own future needs :
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