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An NGO meet with BBMP officials on Lakes revival and maintenance psaram42 - 6-AUG-2012
BBMP is contemplating to establish a structured system of high order involving citizens of Bangalore. It is a laudable claim indeed made by Chief conservator of Forests Sri Brijesh kumar of BBMP. To days TOI report has covered in detail the event held at IIM Bangalore on August 5th 2012. About 125 odd representatives of 21 lake committees have taken part. |
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GNT - 10-JUL-2012
I travel from Marathalli to ECity every day and am seeing too many Volvo break downs. I see at least one every alternate day these days.. How do we get stats on this and who do we contact? |
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sanjayv - 26-OCT-2011
My 25 km one way daily commute for the past 10 months has meant covering a swathe of Bangalore's suburuban areas. A common observation during this time has been seeing 2-3 BMTC buses broken down every day. This includes buses across the spectrum. Ordinary buses ranging from old to the relatively new JNNURM ones, Janti Vahanas (trailer buses), Volvos, Marco Polos etc. |
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Leading the way how an elected representative can serve better psaram42 - 13-SEP-2011
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Ravi_D - 28-MAR-2011
See this Hindu Report on Namma Metro's work on Vidhana Veedhi. |
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Who is reponsible for transformer maintenance sanjayv - 23-FEB-2011
I live in an apartment community. We have a few transformers. One of the things we realized recently is that our transformers really need some maintenance - oil level, dessicant cartridge, gaskets, oil filteration etc. Then a question was posed - (a) Who owns the transformers - us or BESCOM. Who is responsible for servicing them? |
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What is this MUSS Maintenance Outage? sanjayv - 28-NOV-2010
I was reading the news paper this morning. As is common in the weekend, there was this regular headline which went like "Power Shutdown in Several Areas Today". The article went on to say that due to 66/11 kV "C" Station Maintenance Work, there will be no power in a large swathe of Bangalore in the general Shivaji Nagar area from 10 am to 6pm. |
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Public service delivery in Indian cities idontspam - 28-AUG-2010
Here is a review of a book on urban spending. It substantiates most of what we have been saying variously on Praja. The review highlights an example of how BBMP is spending 32 times lesser than the norm for streetlights. This translates into lower coverage and bad maintenance. |
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Storm Water Drain (SWD) Muck / Mud Traps psaram42 - 13-OCT-2009
“In most countries, sieve/meshes only hold back items which are too big to clog the drains. It is hard to stop mud from entering drains using meshes.” - IDS |
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Early bird offer - SWD Cleaning psaram42 - 11-OCT-2009
The Place is at Indiranagar Double road. Excellent clearing of closed Storm water Drain of muck clogging the drains is almost coming to an end. |