What BDA spent on Abide

silkboard - 16-AUG-2008

Mr A pulled out BDA's expense report on Abide (remember this event?). He found that BDA spent Rs.21,86,487 for that full day session at IISc. See a similar news reported about BBMP (Biscuits worth Rs 50000). That small event has allegedly been over-accounted. The same can't be said about Abide event, this is pure information for public consumption.

Abide - Participation, PR and Networking! (edited)

silkboard - 29-JUN-2008

Oh yeah. Murali Sir and I were there. 10 am - 4 pm, a good 6 hours. Met so many people, and heard and saw so much, that I need some time to organize and share the details. Enjoy some pictures till then, will update this post with notes pretty soon.

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Abide - all the right noises

tsubba - 29-JUN-2008

#1. at yesterday's meet, the media reports that while the CM spoke on finances and the big picture, the heads of various departments spoke of issues at a much finer scale, and the members of various RWA's spoke about many nuts and bolts issues[1]. (Added later: After I have written all that I have written, I observed a curiously familiar position on sakrama, property taxes and egovernance by a name very familiar. I am 99.87% sure that our own Silkboard has found mention in that article. which means he was there. So he will defintely post his field notes. You can ignore this post.)

Yeddyurappa to handle Bengaluru

mcadambi - 7-JUN-2008

It's official now - Shri B S Yeddyurappa will be handling Urban Development and hence is in direct incharge of improving Bengaluru. Shri Suresh Kumar was in line for becoming Minister of Urban Development, but he has been alloted Law and Parliamentary Affairs.

What happened to BRTS between Hebbal and Silkboard on outer ring road?

Vasanth - 6-JAN-2008

BRTS - A more buzzing word nowadays with most of the urban transport planners and educational institutions. IIT professors and Volvo marketing personnels are especially pushing this technology showing the cost benefits and ease of implementation. Bangalore MRTS plan contains a BRTS corridor from Hebbal to Silkboard along outer ring road. But, nothing is heard about that so far such as who is going to implement, is it going to be BOOT/BMTC owned etc. If at all if BRTS is confirmed on this part, then why delay?

PRR Phase I

tsubba - 23-SEP-2007

Work on the first phase of the Peripheral Ring Road (PRR), aimed to decongest Bangalore, would start in mid-October after STUP Consultants, the agency chosen to chalk out the design, submitted the detailed project report, said M.K. Shankaralinge Gowda, Commissioner, Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), here on Saturday.

Date: whats the point?

silkboard - 23-AUG-2007

What is that? A board proudly displaying information about a public project at Marathahalli. [flickr-photo:id=1210640454,size=m] Work detail says: "construction of approaches to road over bridge". Does that include the bridge work as well, or only the approach roads? Where does the approach road start, and end?