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murali772 - 13-JAN-2010
The Union urban development ministry has pulled up the state government for failing to implement reforms it had agreed to bring in while receiving funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for various developmental project in Bengaluru and Mysore. |
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Transforming Urban Transportation idontspam - 10-JAN-2010
Sharing a video from India Economic Summit. Very interesting to note Om Prakash Agarwals introductory comments where he says - We are very good at putting standalone facilities but never have an integrated plan and connection with other related systems. Bangalore has been reliant on a one dimensional Bus system. This cannot scale. |
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Indian Society can not be happy till its governance is fixed, fast. psaram42 - 6-JAN-2010
“Gurcharan Das was the CEO of Procter & Gamble India and Vice President for Procter & Gamble Far East between 1985 and 1992. He was later Vice President and Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide. |
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idontspam - 2-JAN-2010
UID Challenge The UIDAI contemplates certain challenging situations that it might face in the implementation of the project to the public. This is the first in that series. The UIDAI is going to face many challenging situations and we would like to invite solutions from the public for these challenges. The present challenge is related to the "Introducer System" which has been detailed out in the Demographic Data Standards and verification procedure Committee report in the Committees tab of the website. The problem is stated below. Probable reactions/solutions are solicited from the public to webadminuidai@nic.in. UID Introducer Problem Unique ID Authority of India has been mandated to give Unique IDs to the residents of this country. The way a person gets his/her ID will broadly work as follows: |
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Gammon and the Metro - is there a safety concern? sanjayv - 30-DEC-2009
After the recent bridge collapse in Rajasthan on the E-W corridor involving Gammon, am beginning to wonder about who would conduct a proper audit of the company's practices? Since Bangalore Metro has offloaded a portion of the work to Gammon, this is particularly worrying for us. There are three major accidents that have been reported in the national press. |
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thampan - 21-DEC-2009
This blog entry is to capture some RWH calculations and upload an excel file to show the calculations. |
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Bangalore going la Paris way for Bikes! srinidhi - 20-DEC-2009
For those wishing to travel short distances by bicycles in the business district of Bangalore, Paris-style, here’s good news The Union Ministry of Urban Development is planning to introduce the concept of “pool cycle” in the Garden City... |
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Is it wise to have IT parks near Airport? Vasanth - 19-DEC-2009
Many IT parks are coming up near BIAL, one example of big IT Park is the Manyata Tech Park. Is the Government decision wise to open IT parks near BIAL? |
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idontspam - 16-DEC-2009
Seeking a restrictive policy on the registration of vehicles |
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Urban Development Policy of GoK murali772 - 11-DEC-2009
The GoK has released a draft Urban Development policy for Karnataka on 14.11.2009 for public comments and inputs. The same may be accessed here. The period for inputs ends on 15.12.09. Surprisingly, it has come the attention of the civil society only now. |