Bengaluru - Self Help Resources

silkboard - 10-JAN-2009

All government utility or infrastructure providers have systems to listen from citizens:

Bangalore Utility Phone Numbers

silkboard - 10-JAN-2009

Local Phone Numbers of Public Utilities

Please add numbers here that you know or have used. If you found some number to be wrong or not working, consider editing the entry yourself

East Bengaluru

TBD

Karnataka to do a Pune

murali772 - 18-OCT-2008

The Karnataka government appears to be looking seriously at the DG set plan, experimented by Pune two years ago, involves getting companies with large captive generation sets to utilise those sets during peak hours instead of drawing power from the state grid.

Power and water connections only after BBMP approval

murali772 - 29-SEP-2008

Aspiring house owners, beware. It would be best to stick to the sanctioned building plan, as even the smallest deviations in the form of setbacks in front, rear, left or right side of the building, height of the structure or number of floors, could leave the building in darkness and without water.

Stake-less stake-holders

murali772 - 2-JUL-2008

One significant drop out from the list of 'stake-holders', compared to the BATF days is Bangalore Telephones.

BESCOM's plans

tsubba - 29-JUN-2008

Chitra V. Ramani of the Hindu reports: Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd. (BESCOM) will implement these projects over the next five years. With the implementation, it hopes to reduce interruption in power supply and improve efficiency. The four projects are:

Imperatives of privatisation of power distribution

murali772 - 28-MAY-2008

The World Customers' Day was observed by BESCOM in its usual ritualistic style on Saturday, the 15th March by holding a workshop on 'Customer Care', in association with Public Affairs Centre (PAC), Swabhimana, Consumer Advocacy, and Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC). Of the audience of a 100 odd people, only some 30 were members of Civil Society groups (RWA's, etc), the rest comprising mostly of BESCOM officials. Seeing this, the chief guest, Dr Samuel Paul, Chairman, PAC, remarked that the poor turn out was perhaps an indication of the high level of satisfaction with BESCOM services.

The Holy Grail of Citizen Participation

tsubba - 23-MAY-2008

Automatic, but not quite

silkboard - 3-SEP-2007

I say good job BESCOM as far as automation is concerned. Those hand-helds to instantly print out your monthly electricity bill, and these automatic payment accepting machines.

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