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A dirty business in schools

16 October 2010 - 8:42pm — sourav894

It is preposterous to see the long queues outside schools in Bangalore. These fine men and women are here for their kids admission into pre-primary sections. This school will demand lakhs of donation, and these parents will readily pay it! Some schools even demand minimum qualification of parents for admitting their wards. On what basis are they authorized to do so?

RTO Bangalore: My quest for answer has begun

11 October 2010 - 9:08pm — raghavv

After avoiding dealing with government offices all these years, finally I am in the trap. Needed to visit RTO to renew my DL. After 2 trips to RTO I am still not able to prove to the officials where I stay. As per the RTO, I need some govt agency (be it LIC, BSNL, BESCOM, KEB) giving me my proof of my residence.

Blind, but still reaching out to his countrymen via UIDAI!

10 October 2010 - 8:33am — kbsyed61

Read Mr.Iqbal's story of courage, inspiration and sacrifice.

How well somebody has said " "The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse."

Tale of CWG website - 112 Crore spent?

10 October 2010 - 8:09am — kbsyed61

We all boast of being keepers and makers of world's back office solutions and IT systems. The list includes designing the Boeing's dream-liner to Bosch's washer-dryer. Recently concluded Soccer world cup's IT systems were supposed to have been supported by Mahindra Satyam team. Compare to this when we step down on our local website's, are left with disappointments and nothing else.

The de-notification racket

9 October 2010 - 5:08pm — murali772

On February 5, 2010, ABIDe had written to the CM, anticipating problems likely to arise from the slew of denotification orders issued by the urban development department. It had termed these denotifications as ‘non-transparent’. The letter had also recommended that “the ad hoc denotification of notified property be stopped completely.

BBMP systematically encouraged illegal buildings

8 October 2010 - 1:34am — kbsyed61

Source - Cititen Matters:

New scam brewing at BBMP, their infra website, and a simple advice

7 October 2010 - 9:21am — silkboard

Recent reports in local dailies suggest that there may have been bogus or excess-spend projects to swindle money at BBMP. Apparently, some works were carried out without following all procedures, and good number of such projects involved road digging or similar work along the Metro corridor (where one would assume Metro itself would have taken up such work). Anyway, nothing new there.

'October Revolution' round the corner

6 October 2010 - 5:44pm — Naveen

Times of India reports:

20 MLAs have withdrawn support to the BSY government, according to rebel leader P M Narendraswamy after meeting Governor H R Bhardwaj. The Governor has asked Yeddyurappa to prove majority by Oct 12. ...

Talk of bribery:

Open Data Project - putting on hold

6 October 2010 - 9:15am — silkboard

Give the current state of digitization, automation, and storage and access within most government departments, some of us have realized that this project requires far more bandwidth than we can afford at this point of time.

Bangalore - a vanishing act of 25paise/50 paise in circulation?

5 October 2010 - 10:56am — Neeyathi_hemmige

Dear Readers, have you noticed when you go shopping for groceries/ or hire an auto- you face the problem of paying the exact amount. More often than not you pay-up extra. The amount un-mindful of the other party in picture, the billing agent or the autowallah rounds of the figure to the next rupee.- Say if your grocery bill has come up to 100.78 paise- she /he says 101Rs.

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