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Monthly praja meeting- Novermber 2009 vinod_shankar - 3-NOV-2009
Dear Friends, Its time for the monthly praja meeting, please give suggestions for the venue for the praja meeting and also the agenda. The last meeting was held at byappnahalli metro terminal site, with just 4 people attending the meet. Date: Saturday,November 7th, 09 Time: Around 8:30am |
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Saving Water using a "FOOT TAP" do-it-yourself - 1-NOV-2009
Ever wondered how, we, the average Indian can contribute to conserving precious potable water? This question goaded a group of us to identify and address a common problem with a simple solution. |
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Convention on "The War Within : The Maoists, The Tribals and The State shekhar_mittal - 31-OCT-2009
CONCERN (a student body in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), is hosting a convention in IISc, Bangalore on 7th November titled "The War Within: The Maoists, The Tribals and The State". We would like to invite you to the same. We plan to screen documentaries, presentations, petitions, hold panel talks and host a photo exhibition. |
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BMTC Drivers issuing used tickets aghose - 30-OCT-2009
Many BMTC Drivers and conductors (Mainly ordinary, pushpak and suvarna) are issuing used tickets. It works like this: I buy a ticket for say 30 Rs. Say I do not have change and I hand over Rs. 100 to the conductor/driver then he writes at the top on the back side of one ticket the amount he has to return me back (Rs 70). |
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Power supply - will Bangalore have choice, like Mumbai silkboard - 29-OCT-2009
How interesting is this news report Mumbai!? Is this an example of consumer benefitting from having choice? Worth wondering if Bengaluru will ever have choices like these? |
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Poor design of flyovers lead us nowhere in solving traffic problems Vasanth - 29-OCT-2009
All over Bangalore, there is a galore of small small flyovers and now underpasses. But, none of them are constructed with thorough thought process and planning behind it. Usual mode of construction of flyover is to have 4 exit ramps and 4 entry ramps in semicircles like we have seen in foreign countries as well as in our NICE Somapura road junction. |
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Research/ design project on sustainable tranport. calling for volunteers jennypinto - 29-OCT-2009
As part of the upcoming praja event, mobilicity, scheduled for nov 21, there is a paper being researched, on the following subject: |
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Unpaid traffic fines - a survey s_yajaman - 29-OCT-2009
Was checking if there were any fines against my car's number at www.btis.in. None. Then I decided to do a random sampling of cars on unpaid fines. Did a random sample of 100 cars across the 5 RTOs for unpaid violations and fine amounts. This would be fairly representative as the number is quite large for a sample. |
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rs - 28-OCT-2009
In todays Wall Street journal there was an article on the fact that the old cabbies in Bombay are beating up Meru Cab drivers because people prefer to take Meru cabs - |
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Ravi_D - 28-OCT-2009
Pwe this 21/Oct item 'Palike to upload civic works info online' DH reports a laudable effort by BBMP. Once it is done (I'd really hope that it will), info on all road related projects will be on GIS Maps, up on their website. |