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murali772 - 8-MAR-2010
"Fixing the Great Mistake" is a new Streetfilms series that examines what went wrong in the early part of the 20th Century, when our cities began catering to the automobile, and how those decisions continue to affect our lives today. |
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Listing points I'd like to be taken up at Egipura Ward (No148) Committee meet murali772 - 29-NOV-2018
Listing below points that I's like taken up at the Egipura Ward (No 148) Committee meet scheduled for 11AM on 1st Dec, '18:
1) Flood mitigation plan: What had been told to us is that a pipe is being laid below the road from near Sony World junction to near Kamal Bakery junction, where the water will be collected
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Failed PPP's, and finally, a good model murali772 - 5-AUG-2018
With government-owned, and thereby incapacitated, "public utilities" (BESCOM, BMTC, BWSSB, etc in Bengaluru) unable to meet the burgeoning and varied demands of the fast-growing urban centres, the way out for managing them very clearly points to PPP's.
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If I were to be the Mayor of Bengaluru murali772 - 6-DEC-2017
Citizen Matters recently invited essays from citizens on how they would go about things if they were to become the "Mayor of Bengaluru".
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murali772 - 4-OCT-2017
The "Citizens for Bengaluru" is organising a "BekuBedaSanthe" on the 15th Oct, and the following is what I posted on their web-site as comprising my initial "wish-list" (The linked blog-posts provide more details.
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DIG (Prisons) Smt D Roopa, IPS, my latest nominee for Namma Begaluru award murali772 - 14-JUL-2017
Excerpts from a ToI report:
DG (Prisons) HN Sathyanarayana Rao - "What she is saying is not a new discovery".
DIG (Prisons) Smt D Roopa - "He might say this is not a new discovery.
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Updated Ward Committee Rules dated 22.6.16 murali772 - 10-SEP-2016
Following is the text of the letter received from Smt Kathyayini Chamaraj, Executive Trustee, CIVIC Bangalore, following the recent finalisation of the updated Ward Committee rules: |
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Is this the route to "Smart Bengaluru"? murali772 - 21-JUN-2016
Mid last week, I received a whatsapp message, from the local community group, stating as below: |
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Panel discussion on implications of the Executive Order on Lokayukta, ACB murali772 - 21-MAR-2016
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Bengaluru at near bottom in city governance ranking murali772 - 17-MAR-2016
From scoring zero on 10 on two parameters and over five on just one, Bengaluru's governance ranking in the Annual Survey of India City-Systems (ASICS) 2015 reflects poor performance. In a list of 21 cities, Bengaluru figures at number 12. The ranking though is an improvement over 2014's performance (18). |
