HOT TOPICS
SPOTLIGHT AGENCIES
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idontspam - 2-JAN-2010
UID Challenge The UIDAI contemplates certain challenging situations that it might face in the implementation of the project to the public. This is the first in that series. The UIDAI is going to face many challenging situations and we would like to invite solutions from the public for these challenges. The present challenge is related to the "Introducer System" which has been detailed out in the Demographic Data Standards and verification procedure Committee report in the Committees tab of the website. The problem is stated below. Probable reactions/solutions are solicited from the public to webadminuidai@nic.in. UID Introducer Problem Unique ID Authority of India has been mandated to give Unique IDs to the residents of this country. The way a person gets his/her ID will broadly work as follows: |
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House panel indicts Murthy for faulty airport design murali772 - 23-DEC-2009
The Joint House Committee (JHC) probing the construction of the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) has indicted Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy, MP Rajeev Chandrashekar, bureaucrats V P Baligar, K Jairaj and other officials for "faulty" design and construction. |
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Public Works Coordination Agreement vaishvittal - 23-DEC-2009
New life for works coordination; nascent effort underwayIt’s a first for Bengaluru. Stung by criticism, local authorities and the traffic police claim they will now coordinate select public works using a simple one-page agreement. |
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DAKSH report on democracy and governance in Karnataka murali772 - 21-DEC-2009
DAKSH (a registered civil society organization committed to enhancing citizens’ engagement with issues of democracy, governance, and equity) undertook a review of democracy and governance in Karnataka, as a way for a citizen’s group to engage with the democratic structures and processes at a state level. |
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Urban Development Policy of GoK murali772 - 11-DEC-2009
The GoK has released a draft Urban Development policy for Karnataka on 14.11.2009 for public comments and inputs. The same may be accessed here. The period for inputs ends on 15.12.09. Surprisingly, it has come the attention of the civil society only now. |
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Proposal: Green Score system for KSPCB/BBMP silkboard - 29-NOV-2009
Scaling up infrastructure and managing expectations of the greens isn't an easy job. A protest worthy job here and a green initiative there, one would expect to see some balance, and even better a system to quantify such balance. What if a body (BBMP or KSPCB) was to keep track of "green score" lost or scored on every project running in the city? |
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idontspam - 28-NOV-2009
Refer Indian Express story - Helpless Desk Here is a classic case of good intentions wrongly implemented. The intention |
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Report on MOBILICITY unconference murali772 - 24-NOV-2009
The Transport Policy draft released by the GoK is not exactly very inspiring. |
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murali772 - 15-NOV-2009
Growth accelerated with tentative reforms in 1980, and shot up to 9% after reforms deepened in the current decade. How much lower would infant mortality, illiteracy and poverty have been had India commenced reform a decade earlier, and enjoyed correspondingly faster growth and human development? |
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Industry of 'poverty-wallahs' exposed murali772 - 15-NOV-2009
More people on the earth have risen out of poverty in the past 25 years than at any other time in human history, and this has happened primarily because of sustained high economic growth in India and China. |