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Our experience with Karnataka Electrical Inspectorate

s_yajaman - 2-FEB-2010

 Those of us living in apartments might know that an annual inspection of the electrical installations in our buildings (DG set, earthing, wiring, lifts, etc) by the KSEI is mandatory.

This is their vision (from their citizen's charter).

Getting a khata without paying any "service fee"

s_yajaman - 2-FEB-2010

 Been a while since I posted anything - so here goes.  This is a small story of how we in one apartment complex have gotten our khatas without paying any bribe.

For good reasons, I will not disclose the name of our apartment.  Some of you know where I live and request you not to disclose it inadvertently.  It will cause needless problems.

BBMP and its future

idontspam - 31-JAN-2010

BBMP chief wants to quit

Let's Rebuild Bengaluru

murali772 - 30-JAN-2010

Discussions on Bengaluru's Future - Enough is Enough - Lets Rebuild Bengaluru

 

A debate on India’s changing political landscape

psaram42 - 30-JAN-2010

 The debate was held at the Mount Carmel College basement auditorium on Friday the 29th Jan 2010, between 5:30 to 7:30 in the evening. This debate was organized by Janaagraha in collaboration with the Bangalore International center.

Training for BBMP Corporate aspirants held on 27 Jan 2010 by Urban Research Center

psaram42 - 28-JAN-2010

 The Urban Research Center was founded by about 8 people and duly registered as a society on 31st Jan 2004. The main purpose of the center is supposed to be towards achieving good responsible governance both in Urban and rural context. It is stated briefly as

Yatha Praja....

Bheema.Upadhyaya - 26-JAN-2010

 While I was travelling to Electronic City I witnessed this scene in BMTC bus. Suddenly I recalled praja.in,  where I read "Yatha Praja Tatha Raja". I had neither any comments nor any solution except I alerted conductor. The "gentleman" corrected himself after two warnings from conductor.

Frozen projects in Karnataka

idontspam - 19-JAN-2010

Glance through a sheet of government data and it’ll reveal that the number of projects actually implemented out of the total projects cleared in the State is shockingly low.

Koramangla Smartvote: Check your name on the voters list

shekhar_mittal - 19-JAN-2010

Folks at Koramangla Smartvote have come up with a very cool way of checking out your name in the voters list. 

If you want to check your name on the voter list try it out here http://smartvote.in/voterlist/viewvoters.php

Exploitation of mineral wealth

murali772 - 18-JAN-2010

Jeffrey Lee in Australia is sitting on Uranium deosits which can provide 'clean' energy to the entire country for decades together and beyond. But, he is not interested in selling out even if it will make him amongst the richest men in the world (check this report in Daily Good).