Posts : governance

Relevance of Shivaji and Maharashtra

psaram42 - 30-NOV-2012

Shivaji was a chieftain in the Pune area in Aurangzeb’s time. Aurangzeb as one can recall, was the last of mogul emperors whom the English defeated to take over the country. For the Wikipedia article click here [1]

Open house meeting with Sri Prashant Bhushan - 3 PM, Saturday, Nov 17th, 2012

murali772 - 16-NOV-2012

For over 18 months now, people around the country have been coming together under the aegis of ‘India Against Corruption’ to demand a strong anti-corruption law in the form of a JanLokpal Bill.

FIR against Home Minister

murali772 - 24-OCT-2012

The Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) has registered an FIR against Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka for granting four acres of bagair hukum land each to Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy and his wife K Prabha in Somanhalli village of Uttarahalli hobli.

Sakala & RTI fest by Dr. Balu @ Mysore, Sunday 14th Oct

murali772 - 5-OCT-2012

Model Citizen Consultation Process

murali772 - 24-AUG-2012

Below are the extracts from a brochure circulated by Ipsos MORI, a leading UK research company, on behalf of the National Health Scheme of North West London, seeking the citizen's views on the proposed service changes.

HAVE YOUR SAY

Undermining the Commissioner's authority

murali772 - 8-AUG-2012

It seems like there is no value for the BBMP Commissioner M K Shankaralinge Gowda’s orders. Eight of the 15 officials, who were transferred by him from the civic body’s Town Planning Department to other departments 10 days ago, are back in the same department using ‘political influence’.

Income certificate for BPL families

murali772 - 20-JUL-2012

Thousands of people thronged to Yelahanka tahsildar’s office on Thursday demanding income certificates to get below poverty line (BPL) cards. However, they lost their temper when they found that there was only one counter to issue the certificates.

Kolkata to London

sourav894 - 6-JUL-2012

 

 

 

They couldn’t do it!

sourav894 - 6-JUL-2012

 

This is what "being pro-active" is all about

murali772 - 23-JUN-2012

Finding that BBMP was not quite equipped to clear the "tree trimmings" from the roadsides, fast enough, following the periodic exercises carried out by his men, particularly during the monsoon period, what does Mr Manivannan, the BESCOM, MD, do?