Wish list for Railway Budget - 2015-16

kbsyed61 - 9-JAN-2015

Happy new year to all our Praja members and friends. Wishing you all a prosperous and fruitful 2015.

GOK State Budget 2013-14 - What's in store for Bangalore?

kbsyed61 - 12-JUL-2013

So the much awaited state budget for 2013-14 by Congress government is out. It is still very early into budget announcements to make a real sense of each of these announcements.

Going by Deccan Herald's live blog, here is the list for Bangalore.

Source - Deccan Herald

Commuter Rail - Match Fixing

kbsyed61 - 4-MAR-2013

We are now past all the Budgets and big-bang announcements from both State and Central Govt. Time for some close up analysis of all these unfortunate annual Tamshas. It is clear by now that, in the GOK state budget, Railway Budgets and the latest Union Budget, there was remotely any hint of support to commuter rail service proposal.

2013 Karnataka State Budget - What's in for Bangalore?

kbsyed61 - 8-FEB-2013

Today, Shri. Jagadish Shettar, CM, Government of Karnataka presented his maiden and last budget before the state elections slated in Mid-April. Tried to collect some details on what is being doled out to improvements in Bangalore. Here is a summary list that was published in Deccan Herald.

My letter to the ministry of railways

Tejaswi KR - 7-FEB-2013

Hi friends,

I have sent out an e-mail to the ministry of railways asking them for trains which I felt are the need of the hour for Bangalore and Karnataka. A copy of the same is here:

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IDD's railway projects in Karnataka - details and progress

silkboard - 19-JAN-2013

Wanted to put out IDD's budget allocation for Railway projects. Sourced from IDD website (here), just in case it goes away or is edited. For everyone to see, react or read between the lines :)

Expectations from Railway Budget 2013-2014

Tejaswi KR - 17-DEC-2012

Hi Guys, I am not sure, when the next railway budget is (I believe it is going to be held in the month of February), but thought of what the state of Karnataka can really expect from this budget with K.H Muniyappa out of the railways ministry...

CRS is not in the railway budget of 2011-12

kbsyed61 - 25-FEB-2011

This morning I woke up to a bad or sad news about Bengaluru CRS. Spoke with IDS over the phone and he broke the news that Mamta's budget didn't had anything to say about Bengaluru CRS. That was really heart breaking. That too after so much work put down by Namma Railu team, Bengaluru CRS was nowhere to be heard in entire budget speech.

Why is BBMP broke - where is the money?

silkboard - 21-OCT-2010

We are told that BBMP is broke, they have no money. How many of us know the reaon why. A growing city, with so much commerce (IT, BT and all) going on, how exactly would it be broke? No english is required to explain things, numbers always tell their story.

BBMP broke

idontspam - 20-OCT-2010

  "Forget mega infrastructure projects, there is no money even for ward-level works,"