Posts : Bangalore

RTI to save bellandur lake

Abhijit82 - 1-MAY-2013

HI All,

Everyday I travel via the road next to bellandur lake to OOR. The speed at which the dumping trucks are covering up the lake is scary. I am planning to file a RTI seeking more information about this issue. As I am filing an RTI for the first time, would welcome any help in helping me format the right queries for the RTI.

Regards,

Abhijit Das

B-PAC, the mantra for all of city's problems?

murali772 - 30-APR-2013

B-PAC (Bangalore Political Action Committee) is all over town, the latest being for backing 14 select candidates for the May 5th Assembly elections.

Cash for votes - some investment mathematics

silkboard - 30-APR-2013

"The rates have gone up". "Many of them want touch phones". "down payment for a new bike". "Digital box for TV" (remember the digitization deadline?). The murmurs are on. The "cash rates" are as high as Rs 4000.

Report - Commuter Train to Nelamangala

kbsyed61 - 29-APR-2013

Report By Hemanth Kumar

Unlimited cheap, clean, safe and commercial energy from atomic fusion

psaram42 - 29-APR-2013

 

Our Sun is the lone star in our solar system. Sun is virtually a fusion bomb fusing hydrogen into helium to produce white light. It thus contains mostly helium. However other heavier molecules of oxygen and even Iron are supposed to exist there in the solar region.  Click - 1

'High court notice to government on Pedestrian Safety'

silkboard - 29-APR-2013

From the Hindu - 'HC Notice to State ... pedestrian safety'

Support for Pedestrian Safety PIL

jennypinto - 28-APR-2013

Bengaluru is NOT a pedestrian friendly city. Pedestrian injuries and deaths are on a rise. Roads get widened, new roads get built, flyovers and underpasses come up every year, but very few of these projects see the required investment and designs for pedestrian amenities.

A resident's assessment of Mr Ramalinga Reddy (Cong), BTM layout MLA - 09-13.

murali772 - 28-APR-2013

While Daksh - Citizen Matters performane analysis of the MLA is accessible here, as also an interview by the Citizen Matters reporter (accessible here), I thought I'll make my

Tree cover

vatsan007 - 26-APR-2013

To preserve the existing green cover and add more in Bangalore, there has to be an initiative, enforcement to plant, shift big trees (if being chopped due to infrastructure projects) to private/public companies having big campuses (like IT parks, BEL, CPRI, ... where they can be accommodated). Trees are being chopped mercilessly as more commercialisation is setting in.

Did Railway Board Lie to Tumkur MP Shri. G. S. Basavaraj?

kbsyed61 - 25-APR-2013

In July 2011, Railway Board in a letter responding to Tumkur MP Shri. G. S. Basavaraj's request for CRS between Tumkur and Bengaluru, had indicated that they have asked South Western Railways, Hubli, to discuss this proposal with Government of Karnataka. Here is that letter.