Posts : Reforms

Urban Bhoomi

tsubba - 24-FEB-2008

Bhoomi to get urban makeover
TNN Feb 11, 2008

Better Bussing For A Green Bangalore

murali772 - 12-DEC-2007

There's no denying that the tree cover in Bangalore is being lost largely due to road widening. Road widening is necessitated due to unchecked growth and usage of private vehicles. To address this problem, you have to have excellent public transport services. METRO may be a solution. But, it is extremely expensive, and at best a solution in the long-term. BMTC cannot cope up with the needs, however much they may appear to have become efficient, which they are not and cannot be, as long as they continue to enjoy a monopoly status. The simple answer is to facilitate the entry of TVS kind of companies (my first exposure to TVS was as a bus service provider in the city of Madurai) into the fray. The present rules do not provide for that. It facilitates only the 'Sharma' kind of operations, which in turn only helps provide fodder for the die-hard opponents of the private sector.

JNNURM and Karnataka

tsubba - 29-JUL-2007

State has failed to make the most of JNNURM