China to set up 85,000-km freeway network - The Economic Times

China to set up 85,000-km freeway network - The Economic Times

Delhi/India needs to learn. We need to move much much faster than our current speed.

Corporate bigwigs to make inroads into Delhi bus services - The Economic Times

Corporate bigwigs to make inroads into Delhi bus services - The Economic Times

Delhi desperately needs more good ways of commuting. The metro is a great start, but it now is almost always full. It needs more bogies and more trains.

Delhi Roads

Delhi has MCD and PWD to maintain the roads, however the corruption is so rampant in both of these organizations, that even a junior level engineer owns a 10 lack plus car and lives way beyond his means and nobody seems to bother. The roads once broken are not mended till years past. Repaired roads break down again next day or max last for about a month...WHEN WILL MCD BE PRIVATISED???

Car seat cover v.s. Life

Whats more important? Car seat cover or a persons life? It's unfortunate that for most of the people of Delhi the seat cover is more important and thats why a person bled to death last night near Ashram.

I hope that people who think like this, be on the other side of the fence, or someone whom they care for goes through such an experience. Are we humans anymore? Such situations really make me pity myself of being a part of this city,....the city of dead conscience people.

Delhi Bus rapid transit

Just saw the picture in the morning TOI of the bus Rapid Transit and the Jam there. Why is that a chaos, was very evident from the pics.

• in the already slow lane for cars we have the commercial autos- which carry heavy weight and are slow.
• There were tempos in the car lane in peak time.

The slow traffic like the Auto's and big vehicles like the tempos need to be banned to make this route work. However delhi traffic pathetic now and high time we added just more and better buses to all routes, so that people can just shun the cars and go easily in the buses. We need decent A/C buses, who ply on fixed time and fixed routes. I am sure this can work out, but who cares for a simple solution for the Delhi traffic mess?

DBM XXIII

http://dbm23.eventbrite.com/

Please use the above link for registration

Date: Sunday, 20th April, 2008,
Time: 5pm-8pm

Venue: The Attic, 36, Regal building (first floor), Connaught place, New Delhi - 110001 , Tel : 2374 6050, 5150 3436

Directions:

The entrance to The Attic is on Parliament Street ( Sansad Marg ), on the left side, after Imperial Hotel. It is just above the erstwhile pub DV8.

By Metro – get off at Rajiv Chowk ( Connaught Place ) station on Line 2 Central Secretariat to Vishwa Vidyalaya ( Delhi University )

Parking - In Palika Parking, Near Jantar Mantar or Hanuman mandir.

Please note that this meet is contributory with 50/- as the contribution per person. We would be served tea and biscuits at the venue. We are also trying to get a dinner sponsored for us. More details on this soon.

Agenda :

Primer on Blogathon India .
We are glad to announce that our group is supporting the Delhi leg of Blogathon India.

As some of you may already know, Blogathon India (www.blogathon. in) is a week long, group blogging online event, to be held from the 20th to the 26th of April 2008, being organized by various blogging communities in India. Ours is the community partnering from the capital. This would be an ongoing endeavour and not just "a one time meet" in a series of Blogathons. The purpose of the event is to raise awareness about social issues amongst bloggers and other internet users (including non bloggers). Bloggers from all around the nation are expected to blog about topics which fall under six categories - infrastructure, politics, media, sport, cinema and gender. And best blogs will also be awarded by a jury of eminent experts. The topics in these categories are:

Infrastructure: Sunday, 20th April 2008
How can we improve the traffic condition in our city?

Politics: Monday, 21st April 2008
How do we change the focus of politics from caste/religion to grassroot issues?

Entertainment: Tuesday, 22nd April 2008
Does Bollywood overshadow regional cinema in India?

Media: Wednesday, 23rd April 2008
Why are Indian news broadcast channels not as mature as their International counterparts?

Gender: Thursday, 24th April 2008
What are the challenges that society faces in accepting the concept of alternate sexuality? How can we address them?

Sport: Friday, 25th April 2008
Are `media' and `commercial interests' in cricket the only reason that are killing other sports in India?

At DBM XXIII, apart from the usual networking and interaction, we will have a discussion on the how, what, when and where of Blogathon to help us maximize our participation in this event. We would also be re-announcing the specific topics for all the categories and would also take feedback on how to conduct further blogathons. We are also expecting non-bloggers there, hence we would be helping them setup blogs and would encourage them to participate by creating their own blogs.

Delhi Jal board

Delhi jal board is still one of the archaic and outdated government departments of Delhi which fails itself miserably in all that it does.

• Quality and quantity of water is very questionable..
  
• You never know when water will come or when it wont.
• the water tankers they claim to send when there is scarcity, is a lot tough to catch.
• Loads of wrong billing
• No easy way of making payments. There is no online way to make payments.
• Website sucks bigtime. outdated bills, no details on bills. multi browser support not there, and works failingly even on IE.

Time to privatise DJB? Water might become expensive, but i think its one thing that people should not mind paying for. Good water will also save on medial costs. and probably will give more metal space to think and worry about other things in life.

crawl capital

Crawl capital is what Hindustan times calls Delhi...FINALLY

I think all r waiting for the magic mantra of metro to happen and make allt he traffic woes go away, but till then Delhi will be crawl capital. But metro is already said to be packed on SHahdra stretch, what will happen in coming times?

Politicians too busy for public

Finally it was left to people to inaugurate the flyover. Now i am eager to see that which politician is going to come forward to take the honor of inaugurating this flyover now. Who will show himself as the person who was too busy to do common man some good, give the poor commuters some relief.

Low floor buses

Finally there is a start to add good quality buses.

The private buses in Delhi are a big pain with almost no leg room, no foam on seats and rickety noisy broken windows. Now we have started to add these new buses and i feel that along with metro, it might be a convenient option in the coming 2-3 years to go in public transport. However the rate at which the buses are being added is amusingly slow..Probably now with elections almost around the corner and commonwealth games fast approaching the speed is increased.

Price for bravery

Delhi blasts braveheart wants to return medal

its sad to read such stories. Probably some of those 80 persons would come ahead to help him? Why cant he be suitably rewarded for his bravery so that others feel inspired and motivated by him..What are we missing here??

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Delhi government grivience redressal

http://delhigovt.nic.in/griev_red.asp is meant to be a site or place where you can complain to CM of delhi hoping for some action. A lot good has been written on tis page. Unfortunately there is no action. I dont know why they create such website and raise people expectations when they are not going to do anything anyways....

tractor trolleys

Tractor trolleys are used for all commercial purposes in Delhi without any official permission. They dont pay commercial tax. Drivers are ill trained. They dont have brake lights. They cause so many accidents. I just hope they get banned soon in Delhi. Hope we dont need High court coming in here.

nuclear power

Seems in all the politics we are losing on nuclear power and the fuel. All politicians want the right to explode bombs..how about providing electricity to all places in India 24*7. How far is the day when electricity becomes just another thing. We forget that electricity can ever go off..like in US.

Bluelines face HC heat

Bluelines face HC heat

Why we went for the bus privatization in the first place need to be remembered. DTC buses did not stop at the stops, many buses were just out of order. Salary strikes by the employees and so on..

Why has privatization gone wrong..? There were more than enough signals. The courts and judges have woken now..but did they not see for themselves these buses driving rashly on the Delhi roads?

Now a wonderful blame game is to be played at the cost of the Delhiites...

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Green cover on roads

The Janpath other roads around the Lutyens Delhi were designed more than 50 years ago. Do we have another area so beautifully planned in Delhi? Why cant we have the tree cover on roads that we have there on the other big roads?

The immense Delhi heat and the whole talk on global warming and environment protection now a days makes me wonder, what is lacking? Money? Motivation? or Brains?

Delhi and its Autos

Delhi has never had autos working on meters. There have been many raises in the fare and even the electronic meters. However nothing seems to change the fact that the auto wallahs ask for the money and many a times just plainly refuse. Another hike in the fare is proposed, will it improve anything?



I hope someone takes this to supreme court and like cars were challaned and made to follow rules and remove films etc, the auto wallahs are also fined and chalaned.



Interestingly delhi police takes the auto complaints on its website, however i am very skeptical if they actually take any action.

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Road to Faridabad

The road from Delhi to Faridabad is presently choked 24/7 around the badarpur border.



Don't know if it is going to be improved ever.



Moolchand underpass is finally operational but still there is a bottleneck. It has just shifted slightly towards lajpat nagar and slightly towards South Extension.



So funny, we wait for years for the underpass to be completed to figure out that is really does not solve any problem, but just shifts the focus,,

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Calling 100--Sleeping Police

Active Aseem: truck car wham bam

Misery goes on for India child workers

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Misery goes on for India child workers

The problem of child labor needs more harsh rules and enforcement. I believe the humanity in us has dies when we employ and exploit these children as home servants.

But There are many families who keep domestic help children nicely and help them have decent lives. Atleast better than what they would have got in their villages and with their families..