Just noticed the numbers for land acquisition in the Feb Newsletter.
UG NS Stretch - Proposed: 14, Possession Taken: 8, Demolished: 7
UG EW Stretch - Proposed: 129, Possession Taken:0 (!), Demolished: 0 (!).
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Skype Meeting - Plans for April Bus Day support kbsyed61 - 5-MAR-2010
The Bus Day is an interesting event that presents wonderful opportunity for communities like PRAJA to grab and show case their concern and willingness to take 2 steps forward. |
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April Bus Day - date changed to 7th silkboard - 5-MAR-2010
Can we try something different this time? Get celebrities in? Request some radio channels to publicize the event? Watch for and join some planing meetings prior to this Bus Day. If you been watching so far, BMTC is here to help, listen and act. Use Bus Day as the medium to give constructive feedback. Take the Bus, its your city, and your environment. |
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March 4 Bus Day - New shuttles - Bagmane, Indiranagar, Domlur, Koramangala vinod_shankar - 2-MAR-2010
BMTC is announcing new local shuttle routes for March 4 Bus Day. Instead of smaller multiple local feeder loops, we have a largish loop covering Indiranagar, Domlur and Koramangala. Frequency promised is 10 minutes, so that will help. |
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BTRAC, it is 2010 - report card for Traffic? silkboard - 2-MAR-2010
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Compound wall crack due to neighbour' s borewell digging - issued resolved ahumanbean - 2-MAR-2010
Crack in the compound wall issue seems to be resolved, temporarily. Other RTI + Lok Ayuktha files, will have be be followed up in due course. Another huge grey area seems to be that very few citizens are aware of permissions that are / are not needed before a borewell can be sunk. The 'consultant's digging the borewell of course make all the rules up...! |
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Land Acquisition for Metro UG Stretch - expect more delays? Ravi_D - 2-MAR-2010
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Commuter / Local Trains for Bangalore from March Sanjeev - 1-MAR-2010
Finally KH Muniyappa, union minister of state for railways, announced that the South Western Railway’s train services from the city to Devanahalli will commence in March 2010 as per schedule. He said on Saturday that train services to Anekal would also start |
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A new DPR for monorail - when? n - 26-FEB-2010
Refer to the proceeds of this BMLTA meeting. Go to section 6/7 - there is no mention of Scomi/Geodesic. Why would IDD again prepare the DPR if Geodesic already submitted one? Different alignment? See meeting notes in full here: |
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City, people, public - mingle on March 4 silkboard - 26-FEB-2010
An event is one thing, and a tradition another. A monthly event gives everyone the chance to do some progressive experiments and thinking. Everyone as in, BMTC, involved organizations and the individuals who'd spread the word. Yes, just take the Bus, and get the rights to crib about what you didn't like, becuase you would be speaking from experience. And if you like the ride, tell the world that public transport is worth it. |
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Point out a Bangalore Lake to CAG - takes just 1 click silkboard - 25-FEB-2010
See this (http://praja.in/en/blog/silkboard/2010/02/14/cag-auditing-water-pollution-which-lakeriver-suggest) for background. CAG is conducting a study on the subject of Water Pollution. Let us recommend a lake from Bangalore so that CAG can analyze how well the inflow based and lake bed dumping related pollution is managed in our city. This form should help us send a consistent appeal to CAG. |
