BANGALORE
- Best Indian City to Live in
Pipping
past the four metro cities of New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai,
the southern technology hub Bangalore has emerged as the best
city to live in India, a global survey said today.
Despite
its top Indian ranking, Bangalore's worldwide rank is very low
at 141st position in a list of 221 cities globally in terms of
standard of living, compiled by the 'Quality of Living Survey
- Worldwide Rankings, 2011' by the global HR (human resources)
consultancy major Mercer.
Vienna
has been ranked as the world's best city to live in on the global
list, which has five Indian cities -- Bangalore (141st), New Delhi
(143rd), Mumbai (144th), Chennai (150th) and Kolkata (151st).
In another list of the world's best cities in terms of personal
safety standards, Luxembourg has been placed on the top, followed
by Bern, Helsinki, Zurich, Vienna, Geneva and Stockholm.
On
this list, Indian cities have been ranked a little better, as
Bangalore has got 117th place, New Delhi and Kolkata shared the
127th position, Mumbai is at 142 and Chennai is placed at 108th.
Bangalore
has been ranked as the best Indian city both in terms of quality
of living and the personal safety standards.
The
personal safety ranking has been on measures of internal stability,
crime levels, law enforcement effectiveness and host-country's
international relations.
BDA
plans hi-tech zone to recover PRR costs
In
anapparent bid to recover the land cost of Rs 2,000 crore for
the construction of the Peripheral Ring Road (PRR), the Bangalore
Development Authority (BDA)?and the State government are likely
to deem one kilometre area around the 65-kilometre stretch as
hi-tech zone.
Hi-tech zoning is the creation of a priority area for the establishment
of industries like automobile, IT and other allied industries.
Owners of land within the area will have to pay hefty sums as
betterment charges and other taxes to the BDA?for converting
their land under the hi-tech zone. “While the actual beneficiaries
of this plan will be the land owners who wish to sell their
land, we will be recovering certain amount from people who wish
to get their land converted under the hi-tech zone as per betterment
charges,” said the official
Source: Deccan
Herald.
Buses on both sides of MG
Road soon
City buses will soon ply on Avenue Road, Brigade Road, MG?Road
and Mission Road, according to M?A?Saleem, Additional Commissioner
of Police.
“The
Metro station still does not have a concourse on the opposite
side of MG?Road. Once the work on second entry-and-exit kiosk
is completed, Metro feeder buses will start plying on both sides
of MG?Road,” Saleem said on Friday. He was speaking at a conference
on Intelligence Transport Solution in the City.
The
Traffic police and BMTC have taken up a feasibility study on
the impact of reintroducing BMTC services on the narrow lanes
of the Central Business District.
S?K?Lohia,
Officer on Special Duty, Urban Transport, said the Union government
would bear 80 per cent of the detailed project report in cities
which show willingness to implement Intelligent Transport Solution
(ITS). He said the technology will be available for people in
a matter of two months in Mysore.
The
conference brought together the Japanese government and industry
officials.
Plea
to sanction Phase 2 of Metro
The
infrastructure committee of the Federation of Karnataka Chamber
of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI) has urged Union Urban Development
Minister Kamal Nath to announce sanctioning of Phase-II of Namma
Metro in Bangalore on Thursday.
Prakash
Mandoth, chairman of the FKCCI panel said in a letter to the minister
that a high-powered committee set up by the State government has
already given green signal to Phase-II of the Metro project which
may cost Rs 21,000 crore for its 72.1 km length.
The
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has conducted detailed survey and
prepared Project Report of Phase-II of Namma Metro. This phase
will cover Baippanahalli to Whitefield, Mysore Road to Kengeri,
Hesaraghatta Cross to Bangalore International Exhibition centre,
Puttenahalli to Anjanapura, R V Road Terminal inter change station,
on North South corridor of Phase-I to Bommasandra, and Gottigere
Indian Institute of Management to Nagawara, he said.
Mandoth
said while Phase-I would be fully operational by 2014, the transport
needs of Bangalore City was growing day by day and Phase-I would
not be sufficient as its alignment mainly runs through the central
business district of the City. The other important extensions
of the City are not covered by Namma Metro Rail link, he added
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