@RCBTweets - Do not yield. Build another stadium if required but inspire Bengaluru to embrace professionalism. 🙏🏼
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Satya
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Satya
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Pragmatist expanding the limits of idealism in the affairs of the world.
شامل ہوئے Mayıs 2014
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Meanwhile, Bengaluru wants to build roads on lake buffer zones.
That is the difference between great cities and just cities.
Jerome Foster II@JeromeFosterII
Madrid is building 74km forest belt of half a million trees 🌳 around the city to fight extreme heat, air pollution & climate change. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #climate #energy #renewables #biodiversity #IPCC
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Indeed. MLA's are clueless about safety.
Did you know there are several pedestrian planning professionals working for GCCs in Bengaluru ?
They plan safe pedestrian routes for stadiums across the world (except India) on event days and create SOPs for emergency situations.
Tejasvi Surya@Tejasvi_Surya
Had the Karnataka MLAs spent time in the Vidhana Soudha discussing safety and security preparedness for IPL fans, it would have upheld the dignity of the House. Instead, we saw MLAs pleading and even threatening for free tickets for themselves and their families. This is not just poor priority. It exposes a deeper problem - a VIP mindset that sees public office as entitlement. Why should any sports body owe MLAs anything? Why should elected representatives expect privileges denied to ordinary citizens? Public office is not a privilege. It is a responsibility. This culture must end. #IPLTicket #MLAIPLKarnataka
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🚨 Spot the difference in the pics below if any.
Bengaluru: Pls speak up & inform fellow citizens about the scam that props the unscientific Tunnel Rd (real estate) proposal.
BBMP's Final Feasibility Report is wholesale copy-pasted from BMRCL's old Corridor Improvement Plans.
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Bengaluru - Be wary of the real estate projects pretending to be a traffic congestion solution.
Public Investment. Private Profits.
That is the modified BOOT model.
ChristinMathewPhilip@ChristinMP_
Deputy CM DK Shivakumar said with road widening unviable, tunnel roads are the only solution. "After discussions with @nitin_gadkari and PM @narendramodi, plans are underway. Land acquisition will cost ₹2,000-3,000 crore & construction about ₹17,000 crore. He said Karnataka’s cost is ₹700-800 crore per km, lower than ₹1,300-1,400 crore in other states".
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Given the blatant plagiarism in the 2024 BBMP Final Feasibility Report, the legitimate question on all Bengaluru citizens' minds is this:
Was the Feasibility Study conducted at all? How could BBMP pay 5.5 crores for it?
@DeccanHerald - Thanks for flagging copy-paste culture.
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BMRCL provided 3 inputs to the BBMP proposed Tunnel Rd & thus put Red Line metro in jeopardy.
1) It's Corridor Improvement Plan was plagiarised as Feasibility Report
2) Its Ph3a DPR geotechnical work found its way to DPR
3) Sacrificed Hebbal land & its ED endorsed Tunnel Rd
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Dear Bengaluru,
Think about this, pls.
At ~4000 crores/km, is it worth building the N-S Tunnel Road?
It is tolled & Real estate revenues don't accrue to taxpayer.
Will it at least reduce long term traffic congestion?
NO. It actually increases traffic due to new real estate.
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There is a difference between "reference purposes" and "plagiarism".
After using old BMRCL traffic data to conceive whimsical projects, B-SMILE still has the gall to defend it.
Why?
Because they are confident that citizens don't care enough.
Bengaluru, let's bust that myth.
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"In every city in the world, public transport cuts congestion and create sustainable mobility. I think it is important"
- Bengaluru Public Transport Commuters demanding completion of metro, suburban rail and augmentation of BMTC fleet.
#PublicTransportFirst
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Bengaluru cannot pursue the flawed Tunnel Road proposal now.
- How can 2019 traffic data be blatantly misrepresented as 2024 data?
- How could BBMP pay 5.5 crs for plagiarised work?
It is now crystal clear that all BBMP proposals are flawed.
BBMP must be held to account.
Tejasvi Surya@Tejasvi_Surya
I have been flagging this for over a year. And now it stands exposed. BBMP’s so-called “feasibility study” to ease Bengaluru traffic is nothing but a cut-and-paste job of a 2019 BMRCL-commissioned report, with over 60% of its content blatantly copied. For this academic fraud, the BBMP has spent ₹5 crore of public money, only to push a pre-decided agenda - the ₹40,000 crore Tunnel Road project. This is not governance. This is daylight loot backed by intellectual dishonesty. Despite such a disgraceful revelation, the @Siddaramaiah government continues to bulldoze ahead with a project that risks irreversible damage to Bengaluru’s future, clearly driven by vested interests. Will the State Government now scrap this flawed project? Will accountability be fixed for this blatant misuse of taxpayer money? #TunnelRoadBeda #BengaluruDeservesBetter deccanherald.com/india/karnatak…
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Satya ری ٹویٹ کیا
ಎಷ್ಟು ಅಂತ ನೀವು ಕೇಳ್ಬಾರ್ದು.
ನಾವು ಹೇಳ್ಬಾರ್ದು.
ಮೀಟರ್ ಇದೆ ಮೀಟರ್ ಹಾಕ್ಬೇಕು.
ಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಕರ ಒಂದೊಂದು ಮಾತು ಸಹ ಸತ್ಯ.
"ಹಗಲುದರೋಡೆ ಮಾಡ್ತಾರೆ ಆಟೋದವರು" ಅನ್ನೋದು ಎಷ್ಟು ಸತ್ಯವೋ, ಅಂತಹ ಆಟೋದವರ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ನೀವು ಧ್ವನಿ ಎತ್ತುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ ಅನ್ನೋದು ಅಷ್ಟೇ ಸತ್ಯ.
"ಪ್ರಾಮಾಣಿಕ ಸೇವೆ ನೀಡೋರಿಗೆ ದೇವರು ಕಾಪಾಡ್ತಾನೆ"🙏
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5 lakh fine for DPR cut-paste.
What must be the fine for wholesale plagiarism, Bengaluru?
BBMP recycled BMRCL's old Corridor Improvement Plans & claims it as a fresh Final Feasibility Report to recommend unverified Tunnel Road solution.
How is this right Bengaluru?
#SpeakUp
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Bengaluru's proposed Tunnel Rd bets against science.
Fact:
It's a real estate project. 5 commercial complexes reap more traffic than removed by the Tunnel Rd.
Fiction:
Tunnel Rd will ease traffic congestion & car commuters will pay INR 20/km to use it.
#SpeakUp Bengaluru 🙏🏼
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@ShashiTharoor @IndianExpress Fine flowing english prose from the mind constructs statecraft and camouflages the true poems of the heart.
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My latest #TharoorThink column in the @IndianExpress explains why I have not joined the widespread liberal critique of the Indian government’s “moral failure” to condemn the US-Israeli attack on Iran. India has too much at stake to indulge in the morally gratifying grandstanding that could have placed vital national interests at risk. As the late Kofi Annan advised me, citing a Ghanaian proverb: “never hit a man on the head when you have your fingers between his teeth!”
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