Pre-Universities in Karnataka State

PU Admission are going to online from this year.  This will help the students to fill up their forms online, select the college after the SSLC examination results are declared.

This will also ease the admission process for the students and opt for the best college in city or across the city.  Also the student need not visit the college to submit the application, instead he can submit them to any of the Bangaloreone or KarnatakaOne center across the state.  Government has decided to implement PU admission process in 9 districts currently.

The districts are : Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore, Belgaum, Gulbarga, Hubli-Dharwad, Davangere, Tumkur and Shimoga. All these districts colleges will follow the online process of PU admission.

PU Colleges in Karnataka State:

1. BANGALORE NORTH
2. BANGALORE SOUTH
3. BANGALORE RURAL
4. RAMANAGAR
5. BELLARY
6. BELGAUM
7. BAGALKOT
8. BIJAPUR
9. BIDAR
10. DAVANGERE
11. CHITRADURGA
12. CHICKMAGALUR
13. GADAG
14. HAVERI
15. DHARWAD
16. GULBARGA
17. YADGIR
18. HASSAN
19. CHIKKABALLAPUR
20. KOLAR
21. CHAMARAJANAGAR
22. MYSORE
23. MANDYA
24. UTTARA KANNADA
25. KOPPAL
26. RAICHUR
27. DAKSHINA KANNADA
28. UDUPI
29. SHIMOGA
30. TUMKUR
31. KODAGU

Sankey Tank Road trees to be cut down

BBMP has decided to axe 19 trees on the stretch of Sankey Tank Road for road widening in order to ease the traffic congestion from Cauvery Circle to Bhashyam Circle.

BBMP has sold all the 19 trees for just Rs. 1.2 lakhs, however, as per estimation of the other agency, these trees could cost any where around Rs. 5 lakhs.  Now what does this mean Corruption in the BBMP house with tree vendors. BBMP has already cut down 3 trees though the High court has ordered an stay on the same and protest being carried by the citizens across the region.

BBMP has gone forward and cut down the trees, where as the protestors were spectators washing their trees fall down.  BBMP has mentioned that in order to curb traffic they will need to widen the road by 30 meters which means out of 69 trees on the stretch they are just cutting down 19 trees of them.  Many people started protesting against the cut down of trees in the area.  Citizens were holding a peaceful march across the region and hugging the trees which are were reading to go under axe.

Many social organization, students, professionals, NGO's of have joined the cause Save Trees Save Bengaluru and were taken into custody by the police officials by dragging them into the van and then released after 1 hour.  No serious action were taken on the protestors.  However, people started protesting and stopping the traffic movement in order to get their support on not to cut down trees.

KSRTC and BMTC increase their bus fares and passes

With Government increasing the price of Diesel, LPG Gas and Kerosene on Friday. Which was quite evitable that there may be increase in some of the transportation services cost too.

This time it was not the auto union who has planned to increase their minimum fares from 17/- to 20/- which they had plans before.  Now it was time it was the turn of the KSRTC and BMTC to increase their bus fares and passes.

BMTC has decided to increase the price by 5% (upto Rs.2 ), with KSRTC deciding to raise between 5 - 8% on different categories of buses. BMTC has also decided to increase the price of daily passes by Rs. 5/- with immediate affect.  However, there was no increase in minimum fares.

Daily Passes	Past you paid	Now you will pay
Daily Pass (General)	Rs. 35	Rs 40
Daily Pass (General without identity proof)	Rs 40	Rs. 45
Vajra Daily Pass	Rs 85	Rs. 90

Here you go Railways have decided to increase their fares by 5%-10% across all the trains, This price increase is due to the increase in diesel in prices which has affected the Railways also.

Price raise in Diesel, Kerosene and LPG Gas

With the Government making a decision for the increasing the Diesel, Kerosene and LPG Gas prices after the election and also when it is time to introduce the Lokpal bill in the Parliament.

The basic necessities of “Aam Aadami” or Common Man, which needs Kerosene and LPG Gas in order to cook their food and Diesel which is needed most by the Transportation in order to ferry the basic commodities and essential services in now going to be costlier. With the inflation of food prices now reaching double digit and RBI increasing their loan rate. It is now becoming harder and harder for common to survive.

With Government deciding on Diesel as Rs 3/- and LPG Gas to only Rs.50/- and Kerosene by Rs. 2/-. This will increase the burden on the LIG, MIG and BPL citizens across the country.

How will this affect our pockets?

With the last increase of Rs. 5/- on petrol, it was hard to decide where and how to save their money on the increase of the petrol price in order to commute. Now with the increase of diesel it will hard hit on the transportation which commute and brings the basic necessities things to the city. The most affected will be truck drivers where they do not have the increase in their salaries or transportation cost.

• Increase in diesel is adversely affected by increase in basic commodities such milk, vegetables, fruits, grains and agriculture.
• Increase in transportation prices which have already affected the Bangalore city with KSRTC and BMTC increasing their basic fares.
• LPG Gas which is basic essential in our daily needs increasing by just only Rs. 50/- will also now be costlier.
• Is this Government for Aam Aadami or Rich people or only for politician to fill up their pockets in the various scam.

Some facts that you would like to know:

• Politicians get free petrol, diesel and Gas where they travel across the country.
• The Government all the subsidies for them and which gain the citizens money, which is utilized by the politician for their entertainment.
• Government has various kinds of tax implemented on central and state government which increase the price of the petrol, diesel and kerosene.
• If these are brought down then approx. we will be very less for each of them.

Indian iPad for Rs. 1500 in June 2011

Sakshat has come out with the Indianize version of the iPad which will be atleast 70% less than the original Apple iPad or any other tablet available in the market.  Sakshat has revealed its price at Rs. 1500, and the launch date will be June 2011.

The tablet is going to launched by end of this month and was revealed by Kapil Sibal.  This tablet is manufactured by a Canadian firm names Datawind Ltd.

Let check out the features of the Sakshat Tablet (Indian iPad). 

This is 7 inch touchscreen tablet with inbuilt keyboard, Video conferencing, multimedia content, Wi-Fi, USB port, 32GB hard drive and 2GB RAM.  This tablet also supports Open Office, SciLab and Internet browsing.

Some of the other specifications are:

• QWERTY keyboard, mouse and a minimum display of 7” colour LCD/TFT (touchscreen optional)
• 2 USB 2.0 ports and USB hosts
• three hours
• batteryless device
• SD card slot (8GB expandable memory)
• Support to connect LCD projector
• Support for external hard disk drive (Minimum 32 GB)
• Ethernet port
• WLAN
• 80% shock resistant

The tablet may be priced at Rs. 2200, however with subsidies, it might come down anywhere between Rs. 1100 - 1500Rs. 

Lakes in Bengaluru City

Bengaluru city is known for its Garden and Lakes with nicknamed as "Garden City" or "Lake City".  There are about 190+ lakes across the city and many are tourist attraction places like LalBagh, Ulsoor lake.

However, with the increasing population and city limits, it also seen that Lakes are getting polluted, muddy or dried up.  With many lakes have reached a condition where they cannot be restored and almost dried up.  If we go back in the history and see  these lakes were man-made in order to meet the requirements of agriculture, drinking, irrigation and also were used as Dhobi Ghats.  Now many of the lakes in the city have become pond or polluted or marshy or complete filled with waste.

With "Save Ganga" agitation is on, As Bangaloreans we also need to take steps in order to save the lakes which are on the verge of disappearing or getting completely polluted.  BBMP has been striving hard in order to restore the lakes in Bengaluru city back to its original, however, with demand for infrastructure, industries and development going across the city.  These lakes serve either as dump yard for the industrial waste or infrastructure are developed on a part of the region with encroachment being a part of it.

However, BBMP has started working on restoring some of the lakes in the city and are also planning to develop tree gardens on the lakes which are dried up and also cleaning the marshy, muddy and industrial waste from the lakes.  BBMP is planning to develop some action plan in order to save these lakes. 

Find the list of the lakes which are :

1) Dry Lakes in Bangalore

2) Polluted Lakes in Bangalore

3) Filled with waste/ marshy

4) BBMP carrying their work on.

With trees being chopped down and lakes disappearing, it is time to think whether we are ready to face new weather change which has already started making it way in the city.

More Lakes which needs to taken care by BBMP

There are still many lakes which are in bad condition and need care in order to restore them back.  There are many lakes which are Muddy, Marshy, Filled with waste and also party marshy.

BBMP has also started working on certain lakes in order to restore them, cleaning silt present in them.

Find the list of Muddy, Marshy and filled with waste lakes in Bengaluru city.

Chick begur tank	Turahalli kere	Lake Inside BEL Campus	Horamavu Agara Kere	Kattiganahalli Kere
Vijanapura Kere	Basavanagar	Byrasandra Kere	Garepalya Kere	Kudlu chick kere
Kunte ( Near Gopal Enterprises Proposed Resedential Lyt)	Nagarabhavi kere	Parappana Agrahara kere	Sigehalli Kere	Yelachenahalli Kere
Agrahara Lake	Bhoganahalli Kere	Doddakannenahalli Kere	Gunjur Kere (Carmelaram kere)	Gunjur kunte (Carmelaram kunte)
	Hosur Kere	Narasimha Shastri Kere

Lakes getting restore and cleaning process .

Allalasandra Kere	Chinnappanahalli Kere	Deepanjali kere
Jangashetty kere	Nayandalli kere	Uttarahalli kere