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Isn't it true of our situation too ? E.R. Ramachandran - 27-JUL-2010
Isn't this true of us too? Probably few thosands vs. One Billion++..... |
Ravi_D - 24-JUL-2010
Just came back from another week long Singapore trip. Every time you look at those high rise apartments, can't help wonder how Bangalore would benefit if it had its share. It would have been impossible for Singapore to be that green without them. |
AIMA conference on PPPs - a report murali772 - 22-JUL-2010
The following is my report on the "All India Management Association (AIMA) Conference on Public Private Partnerships: Issues of Governance", held at Hotel Lalit Ashok, Bangalore, on Friday, the 16th July. |
Some fancy ideas for mass transport srkulhalli - 24-OCT-2008Got these when I was browsing around. Kind of exotic - enjoy wwwa.vito.be/FADC/report1/10_Ankur%20Bhatnagar_UniModal.pdf http://www.unimodal.net/ |
Open Data progress - met with dept. of Sericulture silkboard - 15-JUL-2010
So after 2 months of pause - we have been struggling to work meeting dates with some govt depts we have spoken with - we kicked this off with a meeting with Manivanan, who now heads dept of Sericulture. |
Counting the poor - how many do we have? silkboard - 15-JUL-2010
Public Agenda dear, here is that intellectually ruminating discussion we said we will have soon. How many poor people do we have in our country? The debate, and understanding the number is important because the classic quote goes - "you can't fix what you can't measure". If you can't count your poor, you can't check how your poverty alleviation programs are working. Two important things around which disagreements arise are 1) How do you define a poor household? 2) How exactly do you count people using the poverty definition you accept? First of all, the two popular stats that are quoted to start a discussions like this
Some other notable stats: |
Right is there; but, no information murali772 - 14-JUL-2010
Following (in italics) are the relevant excerpts from the New Indian Express report: |
The under-valuation extortion racket murali772 - 12-JUL-2010
My flat, part of a multi-storied complex of 124 flats, located in Koramangala, was registered on 16/02/05. From about a year after registration, many of us owners started receiving notices from the 'under-valuation cell' of the Dept of Revenue, GoK, alleging under-valuation in the assessment of stamp duty payable. |
Citizen participation in governance idontspam - 7-JUL-2010
Can non IAS/Politico citizens add value to governance? Dozens of dapperly dressed young people gathered to attend a conference entitled, "Exploring Spaces for Young Indians in Government." Suri, who is spending the summer assisting the office of Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communications and Technology, is among the growing ranks of young Indians who are showing an increasing interest in exploring careers in public policy and government - areas in which Indian civil servants have had a historical monopoly. Counter-intuitively, the majority of the attendees were young people comfortably ensconced in private sector jobs. If these two things are anything to go by, then it strongly signals a slow but steady shift in the years and decades to come, towards a younger, more inclusive and level playing field in India's governing fabric, which will ultimately bode well for its nation-building project. |
murali772 - 2-JUL-2010
Given the choice, very few amongst the middle and upper classes in the country will ever want to have anything to do with the government or its agencies, plainly because they lack the basic 'technology' of handling them. |