Enhancing school education to counter some everyday problems

blrpraj - 6-AUG-2008

From the various discussions on Praja we observe everyday problems such as
- Corruption
- Traffic congestion and chaos
- Unorganized & uncontrolled urban growth
- Complete lack of civic sense and amenities
- Pollution (land, air and noise pollution) and it's affects on health

P Chidambaram, Honourable Union Minister of Finance - Book Reading at Bangalore

mcadambi - 6-AUG-2008

Prajagale,

Shri P Chidambaram, Honourable Union Minister of Finance, Government of India will be in Crossword for a book reading from his book "A View from the Outside : Why Good Economics Works for Everyone"

More about the book: http://www.vedamsbooks.com/no50565.htm

When: 8th August 2008, Friday

What Time: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM

Where: Crossword Bookstore, Residency Road

50 MW to be restored - but, why was it cut?

murali772 - 6-AUG-2008

The power situation in the state may improve with the Centre promising to restore supply of 50 MW power, which was earlier reduced from the state's unallocated share and transferred to Andhra Pradesh. Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bangalore/50_MW_power_to_be_restored_to_Karnataka/articleshow/3331235.c

Unaided schools to teach kannada

swamy - 6-AUG-2008

How is everyone seeing this new move from Unaided schools. KUSMA (association of unaided schools) has made kannada teaching mandatory for ICSE/CBSE schools. Quoting from this newindpress article:

Ignoratia Juris Non-Excusat

mcadambi - 6-AUG-2008

Title sound latin to you? Well, thats because it is! It means "Ignorance of laws and procedures is not an excuse".

Namma Raste - road use efficiency

silkboard - 5-AUG-2008

Read in an email this morning that on 19th July 2008, a workshop on “Reclaiming Bangalore’s roads: Namma Raste” was jointly organized by Environment Support Group (ESG), CIVIC Bangalore and Alternative Law Forum at Vidyadeep, Ulsoor Road, Bangalore.

The context for this meeting was the PIL against BBMP over widening of 91 roads. Apparently, the claim is that the widening projects will increase average vehicle speeds from 8-10 km/hr to 40 km/hr (ref: material from ESG/HU - these should soon be up on ESG website, so I will save myself copy paste jobs here).

Sarige Adalat TODAY (5/Aug) in Indiranagar

Ravi_D - 5-AUG-2008

Heard this morning on Radio that there is a Sarige Adalat @ 3pm in Indiranagar.

Just spreading the word for those prajegalu who might be interested. Found this entry on the Hindu online - "Department of Transport: “Sarige Adalat”, public grievance meeting, RTO office (Bangalore East), Indiranagar, 3 p.m.".

Thanks,

Ravi

Sandalwood helpline

murali772 - 5-AUG-2008

State Forest Department on Saturday launched the awaited 24/7 ‘Sandalwood Helpline Service’. Launching the service, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Forest Resource Management) M Muni Reddy said, "This helpline service has been launched as a pilot project in Bangalore and will be extended soon to other vulnerable areas in a phased manner".

Coincidentally, sandalwood came up for discussions on PRAJA just last week at
http://praja.in/bangalore/blog/murali772/2008/07/30/just-how-regulate-wisely-remains-question-today

Once in a while ...

silkboard - 4-AUG-2008

Once in a while, in the midst of all the raves and rants here, we should appreciate the spirit of freedom we have in our country. I read this "Facebook activists in Egypt" and imagined things.

Earlier in the year, a group of young Egyptians used Facebook to organize support for a strike by textile workers on April 6. To put it mildly, Egypt's authoritarian government did not welcome this extension of civil society into cyberspace.

Intelligent Transportation systems and Traffic signals

shas3n - 4-AUG-2008

We had learnt a lot of interesting things from our meeting with Mr. Sood. Looks like things are now moving further ahead. Tenders have been floated for installation of Intelligent traffic signals. (Source: TOI). Moreover, over the next year there will also be a lot of action with Area Traffic Control (ATC), Variabe Message System (VMS) etc.