Inspired Folks

09/03/07 22:50 - tsubba

Raju Narayanaswamy One subtle twist in a local district collector’s official probe report and T U Kuruvila, Kerala’s land scam-tainted public works minister, could probably have hung on in office — not felled the way he was, today. But the Collector was Raju Narayanaswamy. And that is saying a lot in Kerala.

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Your property tax for 2005 ...

09/03/07 09:10 - silkboard

... is due! Spotted an interesting BBMP tender that tells us that you could very soon find letters like that in mail.

"BBMP requires services ... to extract data, print Demand/Collection/Balance notices of owners of the Properties in BBMP area ... for the fiscal year 2005"

Further details of scope of this work tells you a bit about the level of computerization at BBMP's end:

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Automatic, but not quite

09/03/07 08:39 - silkboard

I say good job BESCOM as far as automation is concerned. Those hand-helds to instantly print out your monthly electricity bill, and these automatic payment accepting machines.

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Roads and Traffic Sense - To be taught to children at school level

09/03/07 17:58 - Vasanth

Today, major problem everyone in Bangalore and even other metros people are facing is Traffic Problem. Why this is a problem - Mainly because of lack of discipline among drivers and even pedestrians. Why - because no proper knowledge and education about traffic.

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NICE Agreement Annulled

08/30/07 13:22 - tsubba

This just in. Just when things were getting boring, Star of Mysore is reporting... Bangalore, Aug. 30 (OSR) - In a far-reaching decision this morning the Sate coalition Cabinet has annulled the agreement which it had entered into in 1995 with the Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (NICE).

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ORR Jns

08/30/07 11:18 - tsubba

ORR

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Parthenium

08/29/07 12:01 - karthink

Hello all, I am a resident of Jayanagar 4th T block. There is a site near my house where a lot of parthenium has grown. As this weed is a very harmful and environmental unfriendly, I wanted the BBMP guys to clean up. But even after several complaints (thru phone calls on the number 22975760)they have not done anything.

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Minority Biased Junctions

08/29/07 09:11 - rajatbhatla

About 4 years ago, Bangalore got its spanking new 200 ft wide double laned with 40 feet service lanes, Outer Ring road...

One would drive up here to break free from the traffic snarls elsewhere in the city...and check if their spanky investments still worked at high speeds.

Mostly worked fine, until a small hitch started showing up first little, then some more... and these days in full measure...

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Gathering pace

08/29/07 04:53 - shas3n

Here is an interesting article from Frontline that gives an overview of developmental situation in Bangalore.

It talks about future plans for many organisations like BMTC.

Some excerpts.

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Keeping it Going

08/29/07 04:46 - tsubba

Would congestion disappear if we somehow magically manage to widen to all the roads in the city? Is traffic management all about road widening? Ashwin Mahesh, the head of Mapunity Information Services, discusses some of the fundamental issues about traffic and argues that analysis and information is the way out.

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