February 2010

State Election Commission orders voter roll checking after citizens detect goof up

17 February 2010 - 9:57am — vaishvittal

The English language voter rolls for several polling booths were found to be complete replications of entries from other booths, Smart Vote found out.

Read more on Citizen Matters http://bangalore.citizenm...

BMTC Daily Pass - M/F Significance.

16 February 2010 - 12:04pm — Bheema.Upadhyaya

I was just wondering what is the significance of marking M/F (Male/Female) in daily passes. Does this help BMTC/public in any way or just an overhead to conductor to mark M/F? Today I have seen an incident conductor did not mark it properly and there was a big fight. Another day I have seen a conductor asked a lady to get down from the bus , as her pass was not marked clearly as female pass.

Volvo's or Marcopolo's?

16 February 2010 - 4:13pm — srinidhi

JnNurm funds are being used and announcements being made by BMTC about launching new busses on Blr roads..everything is being done in a hurry..

They are saying about 200 of Marcopolo's will be ordered..are they worth it? They cost 20-30% less than the Volvo's but have been found lacking in refinements which are basic at that cost!

1. The engines are way too noisy...even on normal roads..the bus struggles to start and passengers in the bus can hear the loud engine..even people in the traffic arround the bus can hear the loud noise!

2. The AC is not efficient..there are reports of passengers sweating inside the bus!

3.The automatic doors have issues and transmission too

With all the issues, is it really worth going for these busses..

On the other hand KSRTC low floor bus design has been found commendable by the centre http://www.deccanherald.com/content/52727/centre-commends-ksrtc-bus-design.html

Should we just go for such busses than the Marcopolos?

RGIA - Hyderabad International Airport Rated best for service in the world

16 February 2010 - 9:45pm — santsub

The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) here has been rated world's number one airport in terms of airport service quality. &quot

EC/ SEC - symbol of incompetence, incapacity, apathy, lack of accountability, all put together

16 February 2010 - 11:38pm — murali772

During the Koramangala SmartVote exercise, this is what the members chanced upon "We introduced the software mainly to enable voters to start an easy search for their names on the voter lists online. However, in the process, we found that a number of names were exactly replicated.

Praja.in comment guidelines

Posting Guidelines apply for comments as well. No foul language, hate mongering or personal attacks. If criticizing third person or an authority, you must be fact based, as constructive as possible, and use gentle words. Avoid going off-topic no matter how nice your comment is. Moderators reserve the right to either edit or simply delete comments that don't meet these guidelines. If you are nice enough to realize you violated the guidelines, please save Moderators some time by editing and fixing yourself. Thanks!