Rainwater Harvesting - Preaching without practicing ?

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 11-JUN-2009

Some observations/solutions for making RWH compulsory.

Men in authority are more interested in preaching than practicing.

There are huge government buildings and lands/waste lands in urban/rural areas - still there is no semblance of utilizing such golden areas for creating rain water harvesting facilities by those in occupation of such lands.

Green cess

murali772 - 11-JUN-2009

You’ve paid infrastructure and education cesses. Now, get ready to shell out a green cess of 5 paise per kWh electricity. If the Karnataka government has its way, for the first time, the state will levy this on industrial and commercial establishments to raise funds for renewable energy.

Arkavathi- ಅರ್ಕಾವತಿಯ ದುರ್ಗತಿ

keremanju - 10-JUN-2009

ಅರ್ಕಾವತಿ

Namma Metro Phase 2 Soil Testing

Vasanth - 10-JUN-2009

Today morning I saw soil testing of Namma Metro Phase 2 in Bank Colony near Udupi Upahar hotel. Boards had written "namma metro phase 2 soil testing".

We didn't hear anywhere officially about the alignment of Phase 2 Namma Metro. Surprised to see this!!

New e-procurement portal - transparency!?

silkboard - 21-APR-2008

I didn't know about this new e-procurement portal launched last year by the state government. Have a look here (site isn't setup right, watch the warnings). What should interest us most is "transparency". There is a section intended for "citizens", cool! But the citizen's page doesn't have much right now. A list of tenders is available, which shows up only two items. There is a news and information link too, but that leads to a third party commercial website.

Water Body encroachment opposite to Agara Lake

check - 9-JUN-2009

Hi Everyone,

I am a new entrant to Praja.in. For the last 2-3 years I have been following Silkboard's blogs and now I thought may be I will add my observations. 

BMTC info

manjari - 4-JUN-2009

Now, mini buses

murali772 - 8-JUN-2009

The corporation has decided to induct mini-buses to act as feeder to the metro rail, before the metro becomes operational.

No permission to cut trees on boulevard

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 8-JUN-2009

Dear all

It was a vociferous one voice of more than 300 environmentalists that echoed from the Chamundi Hills

- DO NOT DESTROY PRECIOUS TREES - FIND ALTERNATIVES - 

Importance of Bellandur Lake in the ecosystem of Bangalore

psaram42 - 7-JUN-2009

Bellandur Lake is the biggest water body in Bangalore. In our metro we are depending heavily water bodies as wet lands in Nitrogen cycling. Bellandur Lake thus plays an important role in this cycle as a natural wetland. The three main streams of sewage are