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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.

BIAAPA - Bangalore International Airport Area Planning Authority

23 August 2010 - 10:06am — Ravi_D

Sharing a not so familiar 'authority', notified in '96. http://biaapa.in/. Found this website trying to research ITIR.

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Hawking - the questions rise again

21 August 2010 - 6:55pm — murali772

Recently, a group of residents from certain streets in Koramangala petitioned to the ward level authorities to evict food-vending hawkers from the neighbourhood. Some were on pavements and some occupied vacant plots. After many meetings, the authorities obliged. In some cases, the carts reappeared the same day.

The new DCP Traffic (West)

21 August 2010 - 1:27pm — murali772

A week from now, a woman police officer will be manning Bangalore City west division traffic, with 21 traffic police stations and four sub-divisions under her purview.

Highest kickbacks - the new norm

19 August 2010 - 5:08pm — murali772

While the BJP is rightfully on the offensive against the colossal misdeeds vis-a-vis the CWG, in its own backyard, instances of financial impropriety, though not on such a big scale as in Delhi, have come to light.

Right to Information act (RTI) and transparency

16 August 2010 - 7:37pm — psaram42

In this age of the internet and exponential growth of the web, the RTI act 2005 should have been at best, a history by now. It is amazing to read the RTI 2005 document available on the web. It creates posts like Chief Information Commissioner and what not, for providing the so called information. I admit I could not, nor was I interested in reading this kind of document.

Want to know how a govt dept prioritizes things?

15 August 2010 - 9:24am — silkboard

Happy I'day to all. Got a proposal for an RTI gig. Would take IDD (Infrastructure Development Department of Govt of Karnataka, currently headed by Mr V Madhu) only as an example, but we could pick any other busy government department as a target. The idea is to find out how the dept decides on the priority of projects it has on hands.

PRAJA Saarige not to be, atleast for now

13 August 2010 - 3:46pm — murali772

After a persistent pursuit, through registered letters, RTI queries, appeals, etc, targeted primarily at the Commissioner for Transport in Karnataka, he has finally got the the RTO, Koramangala, to write to me officially to say that I cannot be issued a license to operate 'majilu vahanagalu' (meaning 'stage carriage', I guess) in the city.

BDA dear, where is all the GIS/map data on Bangalore?

8 August 2010 - 9:44pm — silkboard

It is frustrating, as well as shameful. For any thinking, planning, discussions, whether for us citizens, or the government, one basic thing needed in public domain is a map. Not talking a simple map, but something that shows boundaries and jurisdictions of local govenrments, and also its assets (fire stations, water pumping stations, police stations, roads, rails, parks, lakes etc etc).

CWG - Corruption Wealth Games

6 August 2010 - 8:52am — Naveen

Finally, heads begin to roll after a week of denials - see this report.

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