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

Polluted Lakes in Bengaluru City

There are many lakes in the city which are polluted either by residential waste or industrial waste which are setup around the lake,  There are many industries which release the toxic material into the lakes and inhabitant in the lakes die due to the chemical present in it.

Most of the lakes in the Bengaluru city are polluted and it time for the BBMP to wake, start working on these lakes before they dry or reach the limit where they cannot be cleaned.

List of Polluted lakes in Bengaluru city:

Abbigere Kere	Amruthalli kere	Andrahalli kere	Anjanapura kere	Arakere
B Narayanapura Kere	Bagalkunte Kere	Basappanakatte Kere	Basapura kere(1)	Basapura kere(2)
Basavanpura kere	Begur tank	Belandur Tank	BEML (opp, DRDO, CV Ramnagar)	Bhattrahalli Kere
Busegowdana kere	Byappanahalli Kere	Byatagunte Palya Kere (Ramswamy Palya)	Chickammanahalli kere	Chikkabasavanapura Kere
Chikkegowdapalya kere	Chokkanahalli Kere	Chowdeshwari layout kere	Countary Club (Inside)	Devara Beesanahalli Kere
Devarakere	Devasandra Kere	Dodda Banaswadi Kere ( Temple Premisis)	Doddakalsandra kere	Doddanekkundi Lake
Dommasandra Kere	Doraikere	Dubasipalya kere	Gajendra Nagar Kere ( Next to Rly Line) Old Byappanahalli	Gangashakti Kere
Garudachar Palya Kere-1	Garudachar Palya Kere-2	Gottigere Kere	Gubbalal kere	Gunjur Kunte
H Gollahalli kere	Haralakunte Kere (Somasandrakere)	Haralur Kere	Hebbal Kere	Herohalli Kere
Hoodi Kere-1	Hoodi Kere-2	Horamavu Kere	Hosakere kere	Hosakerehalli kere
Hulimavu kere	Ibbalur Kere	Jakkur kere	Jimkenahalli Kere	JP Park ( Mattikere)
Kadirenapalya Kere	Kaggadasanapura Lake	Kaikondahalli Kere	Kalakere Rampur Kere	Kalena Agrahara kere
Kalkere Agara Kere	Kalyani / Kunte( Next to Sai Baba Temple)	Kamgondanahalli Kere (Ragavendra Lyt)	Kammanahalli kere(Meenakshi Kere)	Kariobanahalli kere
Kasavanahalli Kere	Kelagina kere	Kembathnalli kere	Kempambudi Kere	Kengeri kere
Kodagi Singasandra kere	Konnapana agrahara	Kottanurkere	KR Puram (BEML)	Kudlu dodda kere
Kundala Halli Kere	Lake in Srinidi Lyt (Vidyaranyapura Lake 2)	Lalbagh Kere	Lingadeeranahalli kere	Lingadeeranahalli Kere(Andrahalli)
Madivala tank	Mahadevpura Kere	Mailasandra kere(Sunakal palyakere)	Malagala Kere	Mallathahalli Kere
Malsandi Gudde Kere 1	Malsandra Gudde Kere 2	Mangammana Palya Kere	Munnekolalu Kere	Nagasandra Kere
Nagavara Kere	Nallurahalli Tank	Narasapanhalli kere	Near Ambedkar College (SMV Lyt)	Near Gollarahatti (BEL Lyt)
Nelagaderanahalli Kere	Nyanappanahalli kere	Pattandur Agrahare Kere	Peenya I stg ( Near SRS stop)	Pillappana Kere
Puttenahalli	Puttenhalli/ Bireshwaranagara kere	Rachanehalli Kere	Rayara Katte	Sadaramangal Kere
Sanky Tank ( Sadashivnagar)	Sarakki kere/ Jaraganahalli / Puttenhalli	Shivapura kere	Siddapura Kere	Singasandra kere
Sowlukere	Srigandada Kaval ( Near Rajiv Gandhi Nagar)	Srimanth Kere R Narayanapura	Subbarayankere	Subedeharanakere
Subramanyapura kere	Swarnakunte gudda kere	Talaghattapurakere	Thindlu Lake	Thirumenahalli Kere
Ullalu Kere	Ulsoor Kere	Varahasandra kere	Varturu Tank	Vengaiah Kere
Venkatala Lake	Venkojirao kere (Agarakere)	Vidyaranyapura Lake 1	Vishwa Nidam Kere	Vivekanand Nagar Kere ( Near Rly Track)
Yediyur Kere	Yelahanka Kere	Yellenhalli kere	Chokkasandra Kere

Dry Lakes in Bengaluru City

The list of Dried lakes which BBMP has undertaken in order to get the trees garden setup.  This will help the environment and making city restore its green carpet.

Attur Lake	Ambalipura Kere/Haralurkere	Bettahalli Kere
Chalkere	Chikkabellandur Kere	Chokkanahalli Lake
Gowdana Palyakere	Gunjur Kere	Gunjur Palya Kere
Halagevaderahallikere	Haralakunte kunte	Harohalli V Nagenahalli Kere
Hosakere	Janardhankere	Jattigarahalli kere
Kacharakanahalli Kere	Kadugodi Plantation Kunte(Dinnur kunte)	Kavudenahalli Kere
Kenchanahalli kere	Konankunte kere	Kumbena Agrahara Kunte
Panathur Kere	Puttenahalli Kere	Reddypalya Kere
Singapura Lake	Sitha Ram Palya Kere (Sonnenahalli)	Sreenivasapura Kere
Venkatappa Kunte

Ramdev Baba arrested and sent to Haridwar.

After all the intesities which has been going on the demands raised by the Baba Ramdev related to Black Money and corruption in India.  Congress Government yesterday released a press conference stating that the Baba Ramdev is doing wrong and he should not have went with the hunger strike at the Ram Leela Maidan.

Kapil Sibal released a note which has been signed by the Balakrishna Acharya, a closed associate of Baba Ramdev, stating that Government has accepted some of their demands and will go on hunger strike from 4-6 June.  However, Baba Ramdev never mentioned of this deal in his last complete agitation which made the party to hold press conference.

However, Ramdev Baba has made it clear that letter was written in order to forward the request to the Prime Minister and unless he get written assurance from PM, he will continue his agitation of hunger strike.

However, Congress Government released orders to its Delhi Police, who reached Ram Leela Maidan right in the midnight and started Lathi charges, tear gas and arrested Baba Ramdev at 2:40 am.

He has been taken to the Safardargunj Police station and the Government has planned to air lift Baba Ramdev and leave him at his Patanjali YogPeeth in Haridwar.  All permission and required formalities have been completed and any time Baba Ramdev will airlifted from Safardargunj airport by helicopter and dropped at Haridwar

Get to know more about this Historic Event:  Ramdev Baba and hunger Strike

Baba Ramdev Demands for Central Government

Baba Ramdev has made it very clear that he has no support from any party or organization.  His hunger agitation is for the people, by the people. He is not looking for any kind of position or not will contest in any election.

His main aim is to bring back the black money which is stores in the foreign banks from our own country citizens and making our country poorer and poorer.  According to Ramdev Baba there is about 4 lakh crores of black money stored in the foreign banks.

He wants that Government to bring back the money and declare it a national assets and make use for the country development.

Provide your support : Give a missed call to 022 33081122 to register yourself in the historic movement.

"Bhrashtachar Mitao Satyagraha" Demands of Baba Ramdev

1. Declare accounts of Indians in tax havens as national property - GOI must declare all tax haven accounts of Indian corrupts to be national property through an ordinance and later with enactment of a bill. This is a very easy step to execute and does not conflict with any foreign policy, treaty or agreement.

2. Declare stashing away black money in tax havens as national crime - GOI must declare the act of stashing away of black money in swiss banks as a 'Rajdroh' or national crime because it has led to disasters in our country. 883 people die every HOUR just because of malnutrition and hunger whereas corrupt people out there are carrying out scams worth lakhs of crores which could be used for the development of our nation. Such big scams are only because stashing away of money in swiss banks is very easy for the corrupt.

3. Death penalty and lifetime imprisonment for the corrupt - GOI must pass a law to enforce death penalty or lifetime imprisonment on people who are found to be guilty of corrupt practices. The only reason that corruption is so widespread today is that there is no punishment for the corrupt and they enjoy luxurious freedom inspite of putting the nation at stake.

4. Enactment of a strong Lokpal - The government must now enact a strong Lokpal which can control corruption in the country. Corruption is now a cancer for us and Lokpal is a great weapon against it. India Against Corruption is heading this movement and we give full support to them.

5. Setting up of fast track courts in all states to deal specially with corruption issues - The government needs to setup fast track courts in all the states so that punishing the corrupt becomes easy. Crores of cases are pending in courts at the moment which would take years to clear up. We need faster execution and stronger laws to deal with this cancer.

6. Removal of high denomination currency notes from the economy - Government should immediately recall high denomination notes from the economy to prevent internal black money formation. Today we have 100 lakh crores of black money circulating inside our economy and thats because Rs. 1000, Rs.500 notes make it easier for corrupt people to transport, carry and store large sums of money for purpost of illegal and corrupt dealings. These notes should be removed immediately. There is no use of these notes when 80 crore+ people in our country live on a daily income of Rs.20 and never get the luxury of even seeing a Rs.500 note.

7. Educational curriculum in Bharatiya Languages - Curriculum and examinations of engineering, medical, agriculture should be made available in Bharatiye languages too and as fast as possible so that even a villager can get education properly instead of being deprived on the name of a foreign language(English) which we are using as the primary mode of education even after 64 years of independence. What a shame! We are not against english. But we must learn to respect our own languages first.

8. Ban the Land Acquisition Act - This act was brought by the Britishers to loot us and what a shame that we still have this law and its also being used to loot the poor farmers till date who are the people providing and catering to the hunger needs of our nation. This agricultural loot needs to be stopped NOW!

9. Direct election of the Prime Minister - History has shown that indirect selection of Prime Ministers has only lead to political troubles because most of the time the PM is busy safeguarding his chair putting national interest at stake. Political instability and personal conflicts in parties lead to instability in the governance just because of this reason. So the PM should be directly elected by the people and should be directly accountable to the citizens of this country.

10. Enactment of a strong Public Service Delivery Guarantee Act - If any citizen is denied service by any govt official within a stipulated period of time then the concerned official will have to pay penalty in the form of money to the particular citizen on a daily/weekly basis. This will help to make execution of government offices faster and prevent laziness and bribery.

Provide your support : Give a missed call to 022 33081122 to register yourself in the historic movement.

Courtesy : http://bharat-swabhiman.com

Ramdev Baba fights back for black money

Yog Guru Ramdev Baba today began his indefinite hunger strike at the Ram Leela Maidan in New Delhi.  This is indefinite strike and will go on unless all his demand are accepted and being action immediately. Ramdev Baba is in no mood to wait for 3 -6 months with a committee forming and looking into it.  He is adamant for action to be performed immediately or in a month.

Ramdev Baba does not want the Lokpal Bill acted to be repeated which looks like it will not be drafted by June 30 the deadline given by Anna Hazare, as Government has thrown the ball to the state Government minister to accept and give their opinion on the bill.

The stage for the hunger strike is no less than a 5 star facility which Ramdev Baba and his followers have created for the movement.  This pandal has about 1000 fans, 1300 toilets, larger LCD Screen, Water facility round the clock, ICU present at the location and all kinds of facilities required.  The pandal is about 70 feet long.

With Ramdev Baba main agenda being "Bring back black money and declaring it as national assets".  There are also many question raised on the Baba Ramdev funding for the movement, his property, followers, support for the movement and his eagerness to gain the top of position of India.

Some of the Highlights of Day 1 of "Bhrashtachar Mitao Satyagraha" Movement:

• Yog Guru Baba Ramdev began his indefinite hunger strike at 7:00 am.
• With his regular prayers and yog excerise, Baba started his day.
• There were about 50000 people gathered in the Ram Leela Maidan.
• Many religious leader, NGO, Social workers, Actors have joined the movement in the later part of the day.
• Regular talks are going on with the Central Government, with 90% of Ramdev Baba demands have been accepted.
• The movement is also taking place across the country in various parts of other states and cities.
• By end of day, there were about 1,00,000 people present in Ram Leela Maidan for the support.

Ramdev Baba is very adamant with his demands and also not willing to agree on the reason provided by the Congress Leaders Pranab Mukherjee, Kapil Sibal, Shakeel Ahmed and with FM Minister.

Let see what are Ramdev Baba Demands for this Movement.