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Great cities don’t happen by building less, they’re made by building better.
Check out this article our founder @avaid96 wrote about how Paris solved it’s air pollution and lessons that Mumbai can learn from it.
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The most legendary thing I think of every time I see pictures of Paris with blue skies is knowing how much this has transformed in just a decade.
Took some time out to explore how Paris actually made it happen. Here's the story and what developing cities (Mumbai please) can learn from it.
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Paris cut its air pollution by 40% in a decade, while still building. Here’s the playbook Mumbai can copy. I write about how Indian cities can build their way to better lives. Follow for more.
Gotta love this company for providing services that the Indian state infrastructure fails to.
Blinkit Ambulance is now live in Bengaluru! 🚑
We’re currently covering Domlur, Indiranagar, BTM Layout and Bommanahalli. The service is currently operating 4 ambulances across 2 depots. You can request one through the Blinkit app.
Our 2nd Ambulance training academy is also now operational in Horamavu, following our first in Gurugram (more on this soon).
We’re also hiring paramedics, ambulance pilots and General Duty Assistants (GDAs) in Bengaluru. Interested candidates can apply here: forms.eternal.com/form/fjiia…
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The neighborhoods with the highest reports seem much more correlated with the areas that would raise complaints v/s the areas with the most illegal activity
Mumbai Police registered 82 FIRs and issued notices to 110 people for bursting firecrackers in public places between November 5 and 11.
Malabar Hill topped the list with 16 cases, followed by Powai (11) and Gandevi (7).
The Mumbai Fire Brigade also attended 499 calls between November 6 and 10, of which 333 were cracker-related.
The period recorded 2 deaths and 8 injuries.
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Being stopped in an EV and being asked for PUC certificate says everything that needs to be said about how cracked the system is
India’s March to a Digital Bureaucracy
Over the past month I have tried to get the PUC (Pollution Under Control) certificate for the car of an elderly relative. Normally it is straight forward. Go to a PUC Center and in a few mins it’s done. Now however it needs “digitisation” to do the PUC.
You go to the Parivahan website to update your details and upload documents. The PUC Center guy said he can do it for ₹300. It seemed like a straightforward task so I decided to do it myself. Uploaded the requisite documents. For almost a month no response.
Today was driving and saw another PUC Center. Decided to check. He said he can do it for ₹300. Also said the govt website is useless for the consumer. Gave him the details. He had an instant response telling him the name in Registration Certificate and Aadhar was a slight mismatch. The name and surname matched. But the Aadhaar had a middle name as well. So it was a mismatch.
His Solution: Change the name at RTO or Aadhaar so that the PUC can be done.
So many questions on this digital bureaucracy.
1) Why should getting a PUC even need such a requirement?
2) Doing a name change means going from the online to the offline world - which defeats the purpose of digitisation
3) Why does a govt website provide instant response to a vendor but not the citizen?
Digitisation was supposed to eliminate bureaucracy. Instead in the Transport World - India is instead becoming a digital bureaucracy @nitin_gadkari @MORTHIndia
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Imperial is also one of the the first large-scale SRA (Slum Rehab) projects with 2500+ formal housing units created in exchange for commercial development rights
Once India’s tallest buildings
The Imperial Towers, Tardeo.
60 storeys. Around 256 metres.
They held the title of India’s tallest from 2010 to 2018.
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Timing this on the day of a global 15+ hour Microsoft Teams outage is diabolical
Introducing Claude Meetings: add Claude to your team’s video call and it builds docs, whiteboards, and other artifacts with you while you’re still talking.
Starting to roll out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.
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Bosco Verticale, Milan.
Designed by Boeri Studio.
Beautiful but sadly won't actually help with fixing AQI.
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Why is it controversial that bursting crackers is not a household right given our current environmental situation?
At the same time - it’s totally fine to have a contained and planned public fireworks display. It’s shocking that we don’t organise a good one.
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There is a clear correlation between housing supply and income/price ratios.
It’s extremely clear that we need to build quickly in Mumbai. Both in terms of quantity AND quality.
The grim reality is that even the current boom isn’t enough to improve the situation by much.
Even with most skyscrapers under construction by a HUGE margin - this gap barely moves over next 5 years.
source: quick online research.
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