Elevated road on an already signal free road!

idontspam - 13-MAY-2012

The BDA has proposed a six-lane bi-directional flyover from Le Meridien to Cauvery junction, all the way up to CBI junction on Bellary Road.

Civil engineering greatness on ORR

GNT - 4-MAY-2012

Hello Everyone, If you haven't experienced or haven't heard about this, there was a horrible traffic pile up on Wednesday morning on ORR underpass near the Cisco Offices and Prestige Tech Park. Because of the huge rain on Tuesday night, water accumulated at the bottom of the underpass and literally the water was a couple of inches short of knee deep.

The Precious Bangalore sewage Water

psaram42 - 27-APR-2012

There is a grim shortage of funds in BBMP and government of Karnataka coffers. Tarring of road in front of my house was conveniently left out sighting empty BBMP coffers.

Solar power - rooftop, grid-connect, community grid, 3 diff things

silkboard - 1-APR-2012

Sanjay and IDS are already at it on another post (Solar - connected to Grid). Sorry guys, keep it on there, but I thought a primer on slightly varying type of talks on the subject may help. There seems to be a need for incentives, policy push and awareness on these three types of scenarios.

How far can Rs.2/- take you?

pathykv - 29-MAR-2012

How far can Rs.2/- go?

In these days is Rs. Two worth anything?

If you want to get into a BMTC bus and get down at the next stop it costs Rs.4.

A cup of coffee or tea costs anything above Rs.8.

Auto fare is min. Rs. 20 and Metro Rs.10.

Orion Mall - Traffic planning

idontspam - 25-MAR-2012

Some good work being done here proactively by citizens of Malleshwaram around the new mall thats coming up in the area... 

Some preliminary problems that we saw at Orion mall:

Solar Systems Connected to the Grid - Rules?

sanjayv - 18-MAR-2012

There have been several reports in the news papers recently about solar PV systems in Karnataka getting connected to the grid and injecting power into the electric grid when they produce more than they need.

BMTC route changes in the recent month

ss87 - 22-FEB-2012

In collaboration with the Bangalore Traffic police, following changes have been made in BMTC routes in Bangalore city

Diversion 1: Netkallapa circle, Basavanagudi

Draft National Water Policy (2012)

murali772 - 22-FEB-2012

Here is the link to announcement of the release of the "Draft National Water Policy (2012)" by Ministry of Water Resources on 31-January, 2012 15:11 IST  - open for comments till 29th February, 2012.

The draft policy document is attached.

JUSCO fined 2.5 crores

Public Agenda - 20-FEB-2012

The Commssioner Mysore CC Mr Raikar is quoted (19-2-2012) as saying that  JUSCO was trying to loot the MCC at every stage. it has already been fined RS 2.5 crores for non -perofmance and it is inept, and inexperienced after 3 years to deal with public and elected reps complaints every month he says.