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Well done, Mr Commissioner

24 August 2010 - 1:09pm — murali772

ASI Nagarajappa and constables Venkatesh, Veerabhadraiah and Nagappa attached to Sanjaynagar police station were suspended, pending a departmental inquiry. On August 2, they barged into an apartment where a birthday party was being celebrated and illegally detained some persons and demanded money for their release.

Arrogance personified

17 August 2010 - 1:56pm — murali772

In a crude show of political might, labour minister B N Bacche Gowda and his gunman physically assaulted a family which dared to overtake the minister’s vehicle. When Bharat (the driver of the vehicle) questioned if he had committed any crime by overtaking the minister’s vehicle, Gowda allegedly stepped out of his car and physically assaulted Bharat.

A case for better Road surfaces and volume

6 August 2010 - 6:49pm — psaram42

 Four companies viz ACC , India cements, Ital Cementi (Zuary) and. Ultratech cement Ltd.

Pollution Control Board - the government's cash cow

30 July 2010 - 2:01pm — murali772

Even as BWSSB, KPCL, KPTCL, BESCOM, etc are desperately strapped for cash, there is another government agency that's just rolling in money, viz the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB). A cursory glance at the financial statements, provided on its web-site ( http://www.kspcb.gov.in/ - though not quite in a reader friendly way as one would have liked it, which but is quite the norm with most government agency web-sites), shows the revenues at Rs 190 cr for total expenses of just Rs 23.54 cr, a mere 12% of the revenues, with the direct costs being just 5%. And, it's not as if they are being very frugal in their practices or anything like that.

Hearing pursuant to the appeal under RTI in the case of the Indiranagar Tree Felling

20 July 2010 - 4:53pm — murali772

With the BBMP tree officer remaing silent to the RTI query raised by me on the 10th April, in the matter of the apparently unauthorised tree felling on 100 ft road in Indiranagar (check this), I had sent an appeal to the Commissioner, BBMP, on the 28th June.

A few suggestions on Opendata

29 June 2010 - 11:25am — shekhar_mittal

I had a few ideas and wanted to run it through you guys.

I think we should lay greater stress on partnerships. We will be able to make a greater impact and work on our strengths if we do that. When I say our strength what I essentially mean is our community and our analytical skills. While I realise what I am proposing is not really "OpenData" but it will be a very good start.

Some organisations I suggest we reach out to are -

1. Accountability Initiative - (check them out here: http://www.accountabilityindia.org/)
I had reached out to the lady who runs it, Yamini Aiyer, for some other reasons. If you look at their home page they have a lot of mention of opendata. During our conversation she told me that they already have MIS data of 12 government ministries ( I dont ask the exact details) but they have not made them available yet. Maybe we can get our hands on that data and then start discussions on them and make that data available on our site.

Give prosecution & suo motu powers to Lokayukta - Petition

25 June 2010 - 11:34pm — indian

This petition’s been created to request those concerned to

01) Appoint the Upa Lokayukta at the earliest.

02) Give prosecution and suo motu powers to the Lokayukta.

(If the Lokayukta has suo motu powers, it can speedily take up investigations on its own without waiting for someone to file a complaint.)

03) Dismiss the corrupt government officials from service.

04) Retain Justice Mr. Santosh Hegde after accepting his demands/requests.

Justice Santosh Hedge's requests to the government as soon as he'd taken over as the Lokayukta chief

01) Give power of suspending and revoking suspension of corrupt officials.

02) Amend Section 36 of CrPC to confer police power on the Lokayukta.

03) Give suo motu powers to investigate Class I officials as well as politicians, who come under the Lokayukta purview.

http://www.thepetitionsit...

United Way of Bengaluru to hold Corporate Quiz Challenge 2010 on June 26, 2010

17 June 2010 - 5:11pm — Manoj Joshi
17 Jun 2010 17:00
Asia/Calcutta

            United Way of Bengaluru to hold Corporate Quiz Challenge 2010 on June 26, 2010
            QuizCraft (of KBC fame) to conduct the competition with Charu Sharma as the quiz master
            Proceeds to support corrective eye surgeries of underprivileged adults and children 

            United Way of Bengaluru to hold Corporate Quiz Challenge 2010 on June 26, 2010
            QuizCraft (of KBC fame) to conduct the competition with Charu Sharma as the quiz master
            Proceeds to support corrective eye surgeries of underprivileged adults and children 

A praja face to face meet at Vittal Mallya Road June 12, 2010

12 June 2010 - 3:40pm — psaram42

I, Mr. KV Pathy and Mr. Janardanam arrived at the Vittal Mallya road at about 8:30 AM to day as scheduled. We were later joined by Dr. Srinath Heragu. We started our tour of the road from the kasturba road end of the Vittal Mallya Road. The tour ended at the st marks road end of the Vittal Mallya road.

1. The South Foot path

Green Bangalore: Some Reflections

9 June 2010 - 7:14pm — murali772
14 Jun 2010 17:00
Asia/Calcutta

Literary, Arts and Heritage Forum, NIAS, is pleased to announce a Lecture on "Green Bangalore: Some Reflections” by Prof Vijay Tiruvady (vrt@bgl.vsnl.net.in)
On Monday, 14 June 2010 at 5.00 PM in JRD Tata Auditorium, NIAS

Highlights of the talk:
The Greening began with the development of Devarakadus & Gundutopus around Bangalore;
The next greening took place around settlements adjacent to lakes, a network of which was established by Kempe Gowda to harvest Monsoon rain water;
The first area within Bangalore to be greened was the 40 acre Rose & Cypress Garden of Haider Ali.
With the growth of the British  Empire plant collecting expeditions resulted in exotic species coming into Lalbagh.
With these developments Bangalore has had a mix of indigenous and exotic plants like no other city in India.  
Through the 19th Century all the early institutions in Bangalore were planted with this mix of indigenous and exotics.

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