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Government medical colleges hood-winking MCI

1 May 2010 - 2:07pm — murali772

If private medical colleges hire house surgeons to hoodwink Medical Council of India inspectors, it’s malpractice. But what if the government itself pushes through ‘standby transfers’ during MCI inspections and submits a report that new government medical colleges meet the governing body’s guidelines?
    
Medical education minister Ramachandra Gowda first termed this a ‘sensitive issue’ but then said the government was trying to save students who had got admission. Later, he insisted he didn’t want to comment on the issue.
    
The fact is the government issued 15 transfer orders of senior residents, lecturers, assistant professors and professors between January 16 and March 6 this year. In each transfer order, seven to nine faculty members were transferred from established medical institutions like Bangalore Medical College and KIMS, Hubli to new colleges in Hassan, Mandya, Shimoga and other places.
    

RTI Club - 2010

30 April 2010 - 6:25pm — silkboard
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Group to provide RTI support to projects and campaigns hosted on Praja.in

This is an attempt to "assembly line" the RTI filing process (expressed back here). Idea is to do a few things

  1. Provide support to projects and campaigns hosted on Praja in a cause-agnostic way. Projects can create an "RTI request", and the club will help file them.
  2. Provide a relatively easy avenue to those who want to "do things" beyond discussions, but don't have easy outlets for their enthusiasm. An "assembly-lined" RTI filing process will create a few easily-doable roles, some of them may be 100% online as well
  3. File RTIs as a group, which cold be helpful when individuals may be "afraid" to file the applications in individual capacity

The Club will put some measures in place to prevent misuse of the convenience on offer here. Rules will be built as we go, though be sure that RTI requests from projects & campaigns hosted on Praja will be preferred over individual requests without enough context.

Public Awareness on Lead Safe Bangalore

30 April 2010 - 6:08pm — bikram satpathi
From:
NRCLPI Co-ordinator <co-ordinator@nrclpi.com>
...
   

Dear Sir,

 

Mr Praveen Sood, can we do a Monthly Enforcement Day?

30 April 2010 - 8:35am — silkboard

On the lines of Bus Day, where citizen groups and volunteers support BMTC in executing a real on-ground event, will Bengaluru Traffic Police be game to lead us for a "Traffic Enforcement Day"?

In theory, BMTC should treat every day as Bus Day, and traffic police every day as enforcement day. But we know the realities. But then, what could be special in this once a month event? Some possibilities would be:

RTI Workshop

30 April 2010 - 8:00am — Rithesh
2 May 2010 10:30
2 May 2010 12:00
Asia/Calcutta

From Loksatta Karnataka Blog:

Paint, your way!

29 April 2010 - 11:41pm — vinod_shankar
2 May 2010 15:00
2 May 2010 16:30
Asia/Calcutta

By Centre for Social Initiative and Management

in association with Builders’ NGV Club

 

Come, participate, and Win attractive prizes!

in 3 categories.

Age 4 -10

Age 10-16

Open category for ALL 

At

Builders’ NGV Club, Koramangala

3 PM on Sunday 2nd May 2010 

Please get your preferred medium of colors, we will provide you with paper to color your dreams!

Every 10th of the month as 'No honking day'

29 April 2010 - 3:33pm — murali772

In a unique initiative to curb noise pollution in the city, Mission Peace, an NGO, has decided to observe ‘No Honking Day’ on 10th of every month. This drive against the increasing noise level has been supported by Karnataka police.

The initiative was unveiled by Justice Manjula Chellur, Justice K Sreedhar Rao, retired Justice A M Farooque and former Justice M F Saldahna along with DG & IGP Ajay Kumar Singh.

The mission of starting ‘No Honking Day’ is to create awareness about unnecessary use of horn and the ill-effects of noise caused by the autos. We will also try to convince the government to bring in laws to control noise pollution,’’ said Sunitha De Sousa, president of Mission Peace.

For the full text of the report in the TOI, click here

A most welcome initiative. I am sure it will have the fullest support of PRAJAGALU.

Muralidhar Rao
    
 

Minutes of a SCEP Meeting on “Global warming”

28 April 2010 - 9:22pm — psaram42

 We have a weekly SCEP (Senior Citizen Enrichment Program) meeting on every Wednesday at 4:30 PM at Mother Tree a beautiful place provided by one of our SCEP members We were about 20 senior citizens at this meeting to day. It was a very hot evening and the welcome rain was the saving grace. 

The speaker of the day was Ms Arun Shivasaran a young and upcoming Architect of repute. 

The speaker started the talk on a poignant note of alluding to the commonly used greeting when we meet viz “how are you” meaning how is your health. Now it is high time we talk about global warming instead. For Architects it is now common to grade Silver gold and platinum standards based on Global warming compliance. 

Peoples' Movements today - Tasks and Challenges ahead- 27 Apr

26 April 2010 - 8:37pm — vinay_sreenivasa
27 Apr 2010 17:00
Asia/Calcutta

Peoples' Solidarity Concerns

Bangalore

We are happy to inform you that many representatives of peoples'
movements from various struggles such as anti- SEZ, anti-mining, anti-
water privatization, anti-Posco, Fish workers struggles, adivasi
struggles are arriving in Bangalore for a political convention. We
felt that this would be a good occasion for the like-minded people of
Bangalore to meet and discuss with at least some of them on the some
of the grave issues around all of us. It is also important to think
about how we react to many of these struggles around us.

We at People’s Solidarity Concerns therefore invite you to attend a
Public Meeting to hear these leaders on the topic "Peoples' Movements
today - Tasks and Challenges ahead".  Please do come and let us
discuss the possibilities and alternatives for the future.

Date: 27th of April 2010

Time: 5pm

Venue: Bangalore University Senate Hall, (City Campus) Near K R
Circle, Bangalore.


Speakers:

Building bye laws

26 April 2010 - 5:28pm — psaram42

 The comprehensive Building bye laws of 2003 available as a pdf document  is impressive which tries to set the rules in a professional way for preserving heritage Bangalore. However the BJP government thought in its wisdom that it is very stringent and some minor deviations are in the public interest. I built my house in 1986 fully complaint to the set backs specified, and some thing more than specified and built a duplex building exclusively for one family. However I built a toilet at a corner outside which was not as per the rule book. However such akramas are now Sakrama. This according to me is a step in the forward direction. 



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