Health care - systemic crisis?

10/15/08 11:09 - navshot

Do you live in Bangalore? Were you or someone in your family hospitalized in recent times? Do you have an insurance cover? If the answers to all the above questions are 'yes', then there is a great chance that you (and/or insurance company) paid an inflated bill. Worse still, there is a chance the hospitalization was not required in the first place!

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Will those days ever come back

10/15/08 09:35 - asj

An old friend from Girgaum (densly populated South Mumbai) found me on the web. I left Girgaum in 1991.
 
But his e-mail or part of it is worth a ponder - 
 

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Now, a Vision Group

10/15/08 09:21 - murali772

Chief minister B S Yeddyurappa will head the Vision Group on Karnataka 2020, a panel constituted for finalizing the state’s vision document and its subsequent implementation.

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Mangalore Real Estate - Looking Up

10/15/08 05:02 - Naveen

Real Estate prices in Mangalore have been increasing by leaps & bounds. An article in TOI today (15th/Oct) states that several 1-crore-plus apartment blocks are being constructed with heavy demand. This is astonishing since all Metros are facing a slump & prices have in fact dropped in certain areas, such as Whitefield in Bangalore.

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Are we hopeless? A random thought....

10/14/08 12:43 - Ravi_D

We visited Wonderla this weekend. I should say a pretty well planned and well maintained place. Few incidences here to make a point.

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Passport in three days

10/14/08 09:29 - murali772

Citizens can now get a new passport within three days of police verification, or on the same day under "tatkal" scheme, as the Ministry of External Affairs on Monday signed an agreement with Tata Consultancy Services.

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Kingfisher and Jet announce alliance

10/13/08 18:03 - Devesh

[Cross Posted from my aviation blog]

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Solar rickshaws

10/13/08 11:24 - murali772

Solar-powered rickshaws called green rickshaws were introduced in Chandni Chowk here on Thursday as part of a pilot project. Each of these rickshaws costs about Rs.17,000 and the idea is to have them in place of the man-pulled rickshaws.

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Not having an elected council is a costly mistake

10/13/08 05:05 - mcadambi

By not having an elected council in place, BBMP is not able to get matching grants under JNNURM for development of Bangalore. We have lost precious time and money thanks to malgovernance. Lokmanya Tilak in the early 20th century cried for Swaraj for all Indians. We in 21st century Bangalore cannot even manage our own neighbourhoods!

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So, will BMTC do one of this?

10/12/08 17:49 - silkboard

I was waiting for one of these two to happen. What if:

1. BMTC bids to operate buses in liberalized UP transport sector?
2. BMRC (Bangalore Metro) orders its own fleet of buses to make sure it gets good numbers to reliably reach all their stations?

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