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Response from KSRTC

8 December 2010 - 2:22pm — admin

[This is a response Praja has received from CMM of KSRTC. We are publishing it as received. - admin]

ABIDe's working group on Right To Education Act

28 September 2010 - 9:57pm — admin

Got a press release from Abide office. Title: "ABIDe forms working group to review implementation of Right To Education Act and make recommendation to Government".

Press Release

Dear members, wanted to share an update. We will soon be adding Chennai as a focus city on Praja.in. We are in the process of make technical changes and upgrades to have city specific landing page, and few more features.

A new "How To" feature on Praja - your suggestions

7 July 2010 - 2:51pm — admin

Dear readers, and supporters of Praja. We have started a new drive to better organize and present content contributed by users on this website. As part of that, we are planning a new "how to" self-help feature on Praja.in. Examples of "how to" would be things like - "how do I apply for khata", or "how to buy a BMTC monthly pass", or "how to complain about an overcharging auto", basicaly just about any experience that we can share around in dealing with govt or public agencies. Please provide your review and feedback to help tune this feature.

Quick Description:

Tracking page for GIM

7 June 2010 - 10:32am — admin

Going by the hype around it, and looking at sharp opinions within the activist community, fallouts of Global Investment Meet (aka GIM) need close tracking. Whether GIM will bring inclusive growth, or create more controversies around corporate greed and disrespect for natural resources depends on how much interest we take in monitoring the specific proposals and demanding transparency.

To make it easy for readers and contributors on this website, we have created a special tracking page for GIM:

Join hands to write a Transport Policy Proposal for Bengaluru

1 December 2009 - 11:16pm — admin

Post Mobilicity, we, as a community, have this opening to create a Transport Policy proposal for Bengaluru using not just that draft we saw last week, but several such proposals that may exist today. What if we join hands to create a concrete document (a type of "crowdsourcing"), and try this as our first focused proposal creation exercise.

Praja: what next and do more - your thoughts?

24 September 2009 - 9:16am — admin

Recent comments and messages from a few members indicate that it may be time for us to take some next steps to "do more". We are trying to see if there are good and practical ideas on "what next" and "do more", this is the place-holder posts to capture your input.

Next at Praja - the facilitator/EM concept

3 August 2009 - 2:17am — admin

In addition to the ongoing technology upgrade work (an online "project" concept should go live anytime now, and a better moderation system is being designed), we will like to put some str

BBMP Elections and your expectations

30 June 2009 - 11:32pm — admin

Dear members, let us use this post to collect our expectations from parties in the coming BBMP elections. Please post short lists (your top 5) via comments. After a few comments, we will collect and merge the list, and create a poll/survey on the site to determine the most popular issues for BBMP elections.

Bangalore Central Candidate Interviews

17 April 2009 - 9:18am — admin

Here are the smartvote candidate interviews of prominent candidates from Bangalore South constituency. Praja members Jenny and Murali were part of the team that did the interviews.

Bangalore South Candidate Interviews

17 April 2009 - 8:47am — admin

Here are the smartvote candidate interviews of prominent candidates from Bangalore South constituency. Praja members Jenny and Murali were part of the team that did the interviews.

Bangalore North Candidate Interviews

17 April 2009 - 8:33am — admin

Here are the smartvote candidate interviews of prominent candidates from Bangalore North constituency. Praja members Jenny and Murali were part of the team that did the interviews.

Launching Praja Podcasts! Call for volunteers

30 March 2009 - 4:55pm — admin

We are happy to announce Podcasts on Praja.
With podcasts, we can share audio files of interviews, discussions and news to all members and the public. Podcasts are also a great way to spend time fruitfully on those long commutes listening to topics of your interest.

What will these podcasts contain?
Basically anything that is useful as audio. This can be a audio summary of important posts on Praja, can be audio of interviews of people of note or audio summaries of praja meetings.

Survey results - cleanliness, pollution top local issues!?

22 March 2009 - 12:50pm — admin

After about 3000 responses, here is how the results look like. The results are a function of how the poll was structured, and remember, this reflects the sentiments of urban, online populace of the city. Regardless, instead of analyzing this in various ways ourselves, why don't we leave it to readers and members to make sense of thes numbers. In case you are not very good with numbers, we have highlighted the top 3-4 items in each category :)

Praja web server migration Feb 2009

27 February 2009 - 3:32pm — admin

This is an announcement on the technical aspects of Praja.in website. Over this weekend, we will be moving the website to a new web server. To know more and how this affects you as a user, please read further.

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