National College Grounds - Going Nowhere

Vijay - 6-AUG-2007

We are looking at building the next Singapore, yet our kids' playgrounds are fast becoming either walking parks or storage for construction material or being used for all purposes except playing.

Road to airport? Not so soon!

shas3n - 6-AUG-2007

Everyone, even FM P. Chidambaram seems to know that when the BIAL airport will finally be ready, it wont be accessible easily. There is practicaly no high-capacity road or rail link to connect the city to the airport. Thats the reason he asked the state Govt. to expedite the work on the connectivity and get the roads ready by next 9 months.

Right to Information Act: How does it work?

GVK - 6-AUG-2007

Read in the papers about an awareness programme – ‘ RTI – Gateway to Good Governance’ – Tuesday (Aug.7) at Jnanajyoti convention centre, Bangalore. Details from – 9844010121 or 9448278584.

Two new loops at Silk Board flyover?

silkboard - 5-AUG-2007

If you hate blogs and The Hindu for sounding so critical and negative, then you must appreciate the effort "Times Property" supplement makes at providing positive and constructive "news" on infrastructure front. I put news under quotes there because some say advertisers on that supplement ensure a positive picture is painted.

Yedi - cool to NICE and BMIC?

silkboard - 5-AUG-2007

Very short post this one. ToI (Saturday, Aug 4) had carried an interview of the CM-in-waiting Mr Yediyurappa, and I found this answer very interesting:

TOI: Were you consulted on the change in government’s policy on BMIC?

Pre-announcing Mysore site

admin123 - 5-AUG-2007

[Promoting this to a sticky. More interest we see, more the motivation to stay up late and finish Mysore site sooner!] We will shortly be adding Mysore as second city on Praja. A new sub-site will be available at mysore.praja.in. If you are interested in joining Praja-Mysore content team, please register with Mysore as your primary city and let us know via the contact form. Send in a url to your existing blog as well if there is one.

Bangalore-Mysore rail track doubling

GVK - 5-AUG-2007

Would anyone know of the status of this long pending project ? It's re-revised date for completion ? The hassles ? And the way out, if any ?

Hey, how about us?

silkboard - 4-AUG-2007

I just couldn't find a right tag for this post and even thought about whether this fits at Praja. Its about an ongoing strike impacting all of us at Bangalore. Agricultural produce traders are on a strike because they are not happy with government's recent move to allow private parties to buy produce directly from farmers. Wait, don't run away, I am not going to talk about geeky stuff like APMC act, organized retail, their impacts and such. [flickr-photo:id=376009538,size=m]

Mono too much to handle for BMRC

shas3n - 3-AUG-2007

We had recently heard about BMRC trying to finalise the bids for Mono project. But surprisingly BMRC realised that Mono will be too much to handle with its plate already being full with Metro. It has hence submitted a plea to Govt. asking the Mono to be handled by some other agency. Looks like the Gove will oblige.

Bangalore rename : -ooru or -uru?

silkboard - 3-AUG-2007

The renaming thing is almost done. Did you see the "official" spelling submitted to central govt for approval? It is Bengaluru, not Bengalooru. Shouldn't it be -ooru if one really wants all non native speakers to say it the right way?