BBMP has revoked the suspension of five employees, who were benched for shoddy undertaking of the SCs’ survey. The urban local body changed its decision following pressure from the employees’ association, which protested the decision by taking mass leave on Tuesday. :-)

The Indian Express Projects like tunnel roads, new airport, PRR, skydeck, new BDA layouts, etc. are long and tedious. To get them right, government has to be strategic, skillful and diligent. We've been trying to manage with tactical, roughshod and lethargic. That's how we got to this mess.

Was watching a clip from an old Satyajit Ray movie, where one of the characters in the film says there are three kinds of roads in the city - bad, very bad and very very bad. One could say that about a lot more than roads, and not only about Kolkata. Avoidable suffering is the

India has taken 'driving on the wrong side of the road' to a higher orbit. It's a great metaphor for a lot - a weak state, inadequate good options, people left to their own devices. It happens all the time because that's how most things run.

Connected with MD BMRCL and he has asked finance director to respond to this issue ನಮ್ಮ ಮೆಟ್ರೋ ChristinMathewPhilip Tejasvi Surya P C Mohan Muthi-ur-Rahman Siddiqui Naveen Menezes

Familiar movie. Probably will have the same ending as the last 50 or so. As long as we keep going - rattling! - down the road of fixing potholes, we should expect to see movie #52 also soon. The solution is to build roads in the right way so they don't crumble so much. (And

ಅರುಣ್ ಜಾವಗಲ್ | Arun Javgal I don't think either Congress or BJP will ever give up on Hindi imposition. Their path to power at the Centre runs through Hindi states. In KA, 1.4 lakh students failed SSLC because they could not pass the Hindi exam. Such a mad thing to fail a child because she cannot do well in

Three headings on the same page of today's newspaper that are closely related on the ground but are thought about separately in government. (a) ORR service roads crumble despite 75 crore budget (b) Return-to-Office triggers surge in ORR traffic (c) Traffic Police plan overhaul

Indian politics has thrived in its current form based on an unspoken contract among all the parties that they will never publicly discuss the real issues faced by the people, because that would force all of them to talk about the solutions too. But when the people themselves

One more deadline that will surely be missed. There are entire roads that are only potholes. There is no question of filling them even in six months! This kind of announcement is not even good PR. Pothole filling by a deadline is a mirage. Frankly, even the public doesn't expect

The state government has proposed amendments to the Zonal Regulations under the Revised Master Plan (RMP) 2015 for Bengaluru, allowing construction of stilt plus four floors on 30x20 sites without providing a setback on the rear side. And magically the road, water, sewage, drains

There are a lot of posts from the five corporations and GBA of the following type - "held a meeting, issued directions to do routine work, so-and-so were present." - Most meetings are over-attended. A third of the people at the most are needed, others are present for no

ನಮ್ಮ ಮೆಟ್ರೋ Sirs. Why can’t we have seating with some respect for space? Passengers are constantly nudging each other. The metallic seats are not comfortable to sit. They make you slide when the train accelerates or brakes. Fellow passengers keep leaning on each other. We

We have said it time and again, let's say it once again. The lack of streetlights between Mehkri circle and Hebbal flyover makes driving & riding dangerous at night. The divider is not uniform in height and width, has not been painted for ages...need streetlights, reflectors &

It was a dry November in Bangalore this year, and at least parts of it were cold. but nothing out of the ordinary - maybe we've just stopped getting used to Novembers being cold

📍Chandralayout Junction | Bengaluru They call it a Garden City. But right now, it looks more like a B4NNER DUMPS!TE Yesterday it was📍 Vijayanagar. Today it's Banashankari. Tomorrow?........The WHOLE CITY Same story. Same faces. Same excuses. Special mention to Mr.

GBA's voter list published online is terrible. Instead of a simple interface that lets people search for their own record, the assumption seems to be that people will guess their polling booth somehow and then figure out a tool using which they can search - either a browser

CLIMATE ACTION IN THE CITY - THREE SUGGESTIONS a. It makes no sense to develop climate action cells in one ward in each corporation. 364 out of 369 wards are not covered by such pilots and that itself is way behind schedule. We need a COMPREHENSIVE approach in all wards. b.

"We cannot detect it" is surely not going to provide any confidence to the public. The key questions is, what is being done to detect and stop it, and what more needs to be done? There are plenty of examples all over the world and elsewhere in India, and surely some of those will

BMRCL is a third class institution