"The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill" in the offing

murali772 - 1-APR-2013

Undeterred by stiff opposition from private developers and builders, the housing ministry is pushing hard to bring the real estate regulator bill, aiming to protect home buyers, in the current session of Parliament.

What IIM, HBR and New Age Gurus don’t Teach

Bangalore is Mine - 22-FEB-2013

(Below is the blog published by me in my company portal. This is to set the tone for Ashwin Mahesh's campaign for the upcomming elections)

Vivarea Koramangala, and the MSL juggle

murali772 - 21-FEB-2013

An alleged wrong estimation of the Above Mean Sea Level (AMSL) by a private builder to construct a 17-storey building, 4.5 km from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s (HAL) defence aerodrome, has been approved by HAL that handles the airport.

Can property tax be levied against laws?

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 13-FEB-2013

Freedom park power brake-fast Event - RWAs and Apartments

psaram42 - 8-FEB-2013

Kalpana Kar a member of Bangalore Agenda Task Force [BATF] of the Karnataka Government was in charge of the power break fast meet to day.

Chiranjiv Singh report - on new capital for Karnataka

silkboard - 4-FEB-2013

Mr Chiranjiv Singh, an IAS officer from 69 batch, now retired headed this Alternative Capital Project (ACP). ACP and Mr Singh apparently produced a report that suggested building a new capital city of Bangalore. I have heard about this report from a few people, but haven't seen this report at all, nor have I met Mr Chiranjiv Singh.

Identity of our ‘Civil Society’

Bangalore is Mine - 21-JAN-2013

During the protest march at EWS Quarters, Ejipura, the Inspector-in-charge (named Prasad) warned one of the Resident- Representative that they would be arrested if they came in between the demolition work. When an representative from our group (civil society) stepped in and spoke to the inspector, he identified himself from an individual from an welfare group.

Demolition of EWS quarters at Ejipura- Is it legal?

Bangalore is Mine - 20-JAN-2013

I had been to the protest march this morning and returned sometime back. It looks like the demolition cannot be stopped. Here are some events which unfolded.

• BBMP commissioner had aparently agreed to stay the demolition for the next 2-3 months as consideration (children's education will be impacted.) However, no written commitment (the usual thing)

More roads for decongestion !!!

idontspam - 9-JAN-2013

"Over the next five years approximately Rs 55,000 crore will have to be spent in building flyovers and other arterial link roads in order to decongest the traffic in the city by 50%," said R Nagaraj, president of CREDAI's Bangalore chapter.

A different kind of Sakrama

srinidhi - 3-DEC-2012

There are building violations galore in our city..the prominent among them is the building multiple units, more than the stipulation. For example a 1200 sqft plot having more than 4 floors is way too common..