why cant the bus passes be issued in any day of the month

seenivisesh - 27-NOV-2008

i use to get salaries not on the first day or within the ist week. depending upon the circumstances it may be even on 10th.nobody can be blamed after aal the profitability and cash flow of the company will decide such matters.but as for the pass is concerned can BMTC consider issuing bus passes on any date of the moth ,valid for the next 30 days. narayanan

Draft PIL

Naveen - 27-NOV-2008

PIL AGAINST THE STATE GOVERNMENT

THE COMPLAINT

The City’s inhabitants have been subject to unscientific methods of traffic control & regulation that are relentlessly being pursued by the responsible authorities. This has seriously jeopardized pedestrian safety & movement on the streets.

Healthy Bangaloreans might go extinct by 2020

idontspam - 26-NOV-2008

 MYSORE: Bangalore will not have any healthy people left in 15 years if the government fails to arrest soaring pollution levels in both urban and rural levels. This grim warning came from Vision Group 2020, a panel comprising of eminent personalities from the state, constituted for making Karnataka a developed state.

Mumbai to get India's First Monorail - by 2011

santsub - 25-NOV-2008

Come November 29 Mumbaikars' dream of smooth commuting will get a major boost with the laying of the foundation stone for India's first Monorail project at the metropolis. Details below in the link.. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Monorail_in_Mumbai_from_Nov_29/articleshow/3754417.cms

Infrastructure Projects - Victim of Political Battle

Vasanth - 25-NOV-2008

During Delhi Elections, BJP has announced that it is going to scrap the BRT project that Congress started. How ethical and unscientific is this to scrap an infrastructure project just for political rivalry.

The automobile industry burden

murali772 - 20-NOV-2008

The U.S. auto giants General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are more a fine example of how things work in the age of unbridled corporate power. Of how the collapse of restraint on that power must fracture economy and society. They also set the very standards that the Indian elite lusts to emulate.

Profit for KSRTC at whose cost?

murali772 - 19-NOV-2008

The primary objective of public transport corporations is to serve the public. However, this does not seem to hold good on many occasions, like on Monday, when BMTC and KSRTC gave a large number of buses in their fleet on casual contract for the JD(S) convention, causing an acute shortage of buses on road and putting the public to hardships.
 

Cycling in Bangalore!!

raviranjan.kumar - 15-NOV-2008

How many of you believe that
1. Cycle is a sustainable mode of transportation?
2. Cycling in Bangalore is possible?
3. You are faster on you cycle than you car in Bangalore?

Let me share my view on these :

A most compelling story

murali772 - 14-NOV-2008

I was born and raised in Bangalore in a traditional old bungalow in the heart of the city in National College Circle in Basavangudi. It was gifted to me by my late aunt with much love over 20 years ago. To my great sorrow, this property will soon be destroyed by the disastrous planning of the 'Namma Metro'.

PIL - To Sort out the Transport Mess

Naveen - 13-NOV-2008

[Note: Work in progress - Copied from an email exchange, needs to be merged with the the PIL draft itself]

Our basic complaint is -----