Bangalore Urban and Rural District
Environmental Pollution and Management - A Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted on 13 Oct, 2010 10:32 PMThis Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of Environmental Pollution and Management is being carried out by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner. The broad group of Environmental Pollution and Management is structured into modules on the following topics:
Solid Waste Management - A Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted on 13 Oct, 2010 09:36 PMThis Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of Solid Waste Management is being carried out by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner. The broad group of Solid Waste Management is structured into modules on the following topics:
The Bangalore metropolitan region development authority act - Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority (1985)
Posted on 12 Oct, 2010 02:59 PMThis document provides the details of the Act and includes:
- The short title and commencement of the Act
- Definitions of the terms used in the Act
- The details of the Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority
- The powers and functions of the authority
- Details of the finance, accounts and audits
The Bangalore development authority act - Bangalore Development Authority (Government of Karnataka) (1976)
Posted on 12 Oct, 2010 02:54 PMThis document provides the details of the Act and includes:
- A short title and commencement
- Definitions of the terms used in the Act
- Process of constitution and incorporation of the Bangalore development authority
- Details of the development schemes
- Aquisition of land
- Property and finance
- Officers and servants of the authority
- Art commission
Water plumbing sanitation and health; Issues and Challenges - A trans disciplinary approach, Bangalore University, Bangalore
Posted on 27 Sep, 2010 10:59 AMInternational Conference
Theme: “Water Plumbing sanitation & Health; Issues & Challenges-A trans disciplinary approach”
Arghyam is looking for Urban Water Consultant
Posted on 15 Sep, 2010 02:40 PMContent and Image Courtesy: Arghyam
Arghyam is a non-profit foundation, based in Bangalore and focussing on water issues.
We are looking for a consultant who will work with us on creating decision-making tools for practitioners in the field of urban water. We are specifically looking at creating easy-to-use tools that administrators or engineers, especially in towns and smaller cities across the country, will find useful. This is part of our Integrated Urban Water Management project, where we are looking at interrelating the planning and management of all aspects of urban water (surface water, groundwater, wastewater and stormwater management, equity and access for the poor, institutional aspects, governance aspects etc.)
The essential water : An installation by Sridhar Gangolli at the premises of Alliance Francaise de Bangalore
Posted on 09 Sep, 2010 10:32 AMSridhar Gangolli, an artist with the concern about the life and the living, is once again on the pitch of art. In each of his works of art, he tries to be fresh and spontaneous. He bats with the objects and bowls some thoughts, thus he makes his art.
Engineers training on Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems (DEWATS), CDD, Bangalore
Posted on 06 Sep, 2010 01:19 PM
Organizer: Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society
Venue: Centre for Advanced Sanitation Solutions (CASS), Bangalore
Description:
The Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society is a not-for-profit organisation working in the field of decentralised basic need services across India. Decentralised solutions for waste water treatment, water and energy supply, solid waste management and urban sanitation planning are successfully promoted for the past ten years.
Parichay: Bangalore's tank systems, INTACH, Kudlu, Bangalore
Posted on 03 Sep, 2010 05:07 PM
Organizer: Indian National Trust For Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH)
Venue: Kudlu village
Description:
INTACH Bangalore is pleased to announce our next Parichay, which will be about the tank systems of Bangalore. Our walk leader, Rohan DSouza, a researcher at NIAS, will talk to us about the series of reservoirs that were created to harvest rainwater in Bangalore, using the example of the 1100-year-old settlement and tank at Kudlu village.
Rainwater harvesting initiatives in Bangalore - A paper by KSCST
Posted on 29 Aug, 2010 12:10 AMThis paper by AR Shivakumar of the Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST), presented at a national seminar organised by ISRO at NIAS Bangalore in 2010, begins by highlighting the increasing problem of scarcity of water that the city of Bangalore has been experiencing in recent years and suggests a required plan of action for a sustainable water supply system in the city.