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Extortion - the three way squeeze on street vendors & hawkers

12 December 2012 - 8:22am — silkboard

Hope you all read about the BBMP councillor extorting Rs 15000 / month from an eatery at Kalasipalya. Here is the news report in DH. I cross checked to find same version in Hindu also, so its not a one off tabloid type story:

CRS - Minutes of Nov 17th Meeting (Shared by PS, IDD) !

11 December 2012 - 9:21pm — kbsyed61

Dear Prajagale,

I would like to share the minutes of the meeting held under the chairmanship of Dr. Amita Prasad, IAS, Principal Secretary, UDD to examine the RITES report on "Implementation of Commuter Rail Service in Banaglore.

Thanks to Dr. Rajkumar Khatri, IAS, for sharing this meeting minutes with me in response to my email request.

New 40mld Cauvery Water 4th stage 2nd phase

10 December 2012 - 5:10pm — psaram42

 

This new Cauvery water line laying is completed. To day there was a ceremony organized by MLA Raghu in his constituency. This water tank is situated on the Suranjandas road. Click here [1]

 

'Passenger trains yet to run to Nelamangala' - same old story

10 December 2012 - 8:51am — silkboard

Hindu reported this weekend that SWR is yet to start trains to Nelamangala. Story here, key excerpts:

Odd timings for the trains that are supposed to to run ...

Photos from a walk around Domlur flyover

10 December 2012 - 8:38am — silkboard

Some pictures from a walk we took around the Domlur flyover. Really hard to get around here in peak traffic times.

Most common walk here seems to be change of direction from Airport Road to Inner Ring Road and vice versa. Coming from IRR, to go to airport road towards HAL/Outer Ring Road side:

  

A lecture on promoting good governance

9 December 2012 - 4:42pm — psaram42

 

Public Affairs Centre click [1] has been promoting good governance since 1994 through

A curse called "Address Proof"

8 December 2012 - 12:22pm — Pravsee

I believe the constituion of India has a clause that says something to the effect of "All citizens are equal and should be treated equally". In reality, this is not followed though.

The 'Cash Transfer Scheme' debate

5 December 2012 - 12:54pm — murali772

Of course, cash transfers have advantages too: they have lower transaction costs, more convenient for migrant labour, and might be easier to monitor.

Fighting Corruption: The Way Forward

5 December 2012 - 11:39am — murali772
9 Dec 2012 10:30
Asia/Calcutta

COALITION  AGAINST CORRUPTION cordially invites you on the occasion of ‘International Anticorruption Day’ to a Public Lecture on "Fighting Corruption: The Way Forward"

by Dr. Samuel Paul, Founder Chairman, Public Affairs Centre,

Right to Services - Sakala doing well? Numbers for you

5 December 2012 - 9:31am — silkboard

Sakala launched in April this year, and the system should now have more than 6 months worth data for us to see. Thankfully, Sakala system makes a lot of data public. Just go to Sakala website, and then, on the right hand side, find links to "public reports", and report of last month, right now November.

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