Posts : Media Reports

BBMP admits to incorrectly sanctioning a plan

vaishvittal - 23-FEB-2010

The town planning department of the BBMP has wrongly greenlighted a convention centre near Bannerghatta Road. Residents angered over this and other plan violations in the area.

Read this Citizen Matters expose

http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/1793-bbmp-admits-zoning-violation-panduranganagar

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Parched summer this year

Naveen - 22-FEB-2010

Summer is already here - & it seems like we are already in May, though we are still in mid-Feb.

With summer, the usual water & power shortage looms large - & the size of the shortage keeps increasing year after year.

State Election Commission orders voter roll checking after citizens detect goof up

vaishvittal - 17-FEB-2010

The English language voter rolls for several polling booths were found to be complete replications of entries from other booths, Smart Vote found out.

Read more on Citizen Matters http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/1782-voters-list-goof-up-detected-by-smart-vote

RGIA - Hyderabad International Airport Rated best for service in the world

santsub - 16-FEB-2010

The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) here has been rated world's number one airport in terms of airport service quality.  &quot

Liveability

idontspam - 13-FEB-2010

Winter Olympics host, Vancouver, ranked world's most liveable city

ABIDe pins high hopes on new reforms blueprint for Bengaluru

vaishvittal - 11-FEB-2010

The chief minister's ABIDe task force released Plan Bengaluru 2020, calling it a 'dynamic document'. Alas, all this with no city council yet.

Read more on Citizen Matters

And more skywalks are announced

s_yajaman - 10-FEB-2010

 BBMP yet again announces more skywalks.  This seems to be in addition to the 50 or 60 that have not seen the light of day.  

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/51790/skywalk-ease-over-busy-bangalore.html

The fast lane from Hebbal to Silk Board gets a push

vaishvittal - 9-FEB-2010

Stakeholders DULT, BMTC, BDA and consultants RITES, iDECK will meet next week to review the revised proposal for the pilot Bus Rapid Transit System in Bengaluru.

Read more on Citizen Matters

http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/1767-brts-dedicated-bus-lanes-on-orr-bangalore

Railways to privatize

murali772 - 9-FEB-2010

Attempting an image makeover after opposing most major projects in her home state of West Bengal, railway minister Mamata Banerjee seemed to be going over the top in a bid to privatize every sector of the Indian Railways.

Flag-pole politics

murali772 - 8-FEB-2010