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First Information Report

Today's Times of India carried the following article of interest. It is not uncommon for public to face rude police behavior. Not registering an FIR is simply unjust. This is a very irritating matter and has to be tackled.

Cops understand only crack of whip, says Supreme Court, 9 Aug 2008, 0001 hrs IST, Dhananjay Mahapatra,TNN (Link: Register FIR or face jail: SC to cops):

Benniganahalli Railway Bridge Protest , K R Puram

The 7 th of August 2008 , Near Benniganahalli Railway Bridge , K R Puram ,Bangalore - 36 Regarding the issue of Widening the road , Mr .N.S.Nandeesh Reddy , MLA ,K R Puram Constituency met with the public ,as they were protesting for the widening of road .

Mr .N.S.Nandeesh Reddy himself participated in the protest and called the NATIONAL HIGHWAY DEV AUTHORITY people and told that they will call a Tender for widening this road within this 25 th of August 2008 .

As he insisted the people regarding the issue , the public gathered took back the protest.

2000 acres for IT park, what about other things?

Urban DevelopmentGovernance

I am terribly sorry. But I have an issue with developments like these - new IT park on 2000 acres around the city (source: DH). No, I am not going to speak the beaten line of farmland acquisition. I am not anti development at all, but I speak for us, the urban dwellers who lead close to miserable lives in this city today.

The government is setting up a sprawling IT park on 2,000 acres around the City to create the much-needed space for IT firms to expand their activities.

Wonderful news, and the plans look good. But lets do some maths now.

 

BMTC and Rs 750 crores

Public Transport

BMTC has postponed its Rs 750 crore IPO for the time being due to volatile market conditions. But its never too late to look at their plans. BMTC had submitted a Rs 3000 crore plan tothe center under JNNURM to "modernize and expand its network to meet the public transport demands of a growing city.". The plan is (source: Livemint) "to raise money from the public to add luxury buses on newer routes".

Way forward on customer issues

Hindustan Unilever, the consumer goods giant, has just done an interesting thing. It has got a retired high court judge to agree to be an ombudsman for customer complaints. If consumers have a grievance at HUL or its products, and aren’t satisfied with the response to their complaint, they will be offered the option of having the ex-judge investigate the matter. And his verdict will be binding on both parties.

Enhancing school education to counter some everyday problems

From the various discussions on Praja we observe everyday problems such as
- Corruption
- Traffic congestion and chaos
- Unorganized & uncontrolled urban growth
- Complete lack of civic sense and amenities
- Pollution (land, air and noise pollution) and it's affects on health

P Chidambaram, Honourable Union Minister of Finance - Book Reading at Bangalore

Prajagale,

Shri P Chidambaram, Honourable Union Minister of Finance, Government of India will be in Crossword for a book reading from his book "A View from the Outside : Why Good Economics Works for Everyone"

More about the book: http://www.vedamsbooks.co...

When: 8th August 2008, Friday

What Time: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM

Where: Crossword Bookstore, Residency Road

50 MW to be restored - but, why was it cut?

Power

The power situation in the state may improve with the Centre promising to restore supply of 50 MW power, which was earlier reduced from the state's unallocated share and transferred to Andhra Pradesh. Read more at:
http://timesofindia.india...

Unaided schools to teach kannada

How is everyone seeing this new move from Unaided schools. KUSMA (association of unaided schools) has made kannada teaching mandatory for ICSE/CBSE schools. Quoting from this newindpress article:

Ignoratia Juris Non-Excusat

Title sound latin to you? Well, thats because it is! It means "Ignorance of laws and procedures is not an excuse".

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