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BBMP election - candidate information hemaraj - 14-MAR-2010
The election for the bbmp is around the corner, at this point of time giving ideas is late,but atleast the future elctions can take up these actions. Election commision should also go into latest technology by promoting a website,saving paper, allowing every candidate some particular byte space to write about himself, this accessible to all citizens. We citizens have never heard of the candidate who contests and the busy professionals dont take time to find out about the candidate. I suggest that all the candidates contesting, 1) mention the ward he is contesting,born and eduated place and institution. with his family details and his motto. 2) the party he is representing 3) Brief history when he enterd the politics, year to year which party he was in, his position from which party he held, reason for leaving the party to join the next party, 4) disclosure of his assets, what is his business, what is his income, what are the servces he has achieved during his tenure. 5) what are his administration skills, |
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49-O : option to vote for nobody hemaraj - 14-MAR-2010
every one who is grieving about the civic problems not addressed in your area . take action. this is the only cahnce in four years you get to address the problem. read this article. |
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Survey on your voter registration experience murali772 - 8-MAR-2010
Dear Friends, based on our own observations, and with inputs and support from Jaagte Raho and SmartVote, here is a survey on your experience with voter registration process in Bangalore. The idea is to help the State Election Commission to improve the accuracy of voter lists. You cooperation is requested. Please encourage your community and friends to take this survey in large numbers. Summarized results will be shared with the State Election Commission. You could go by the entries in the SEC listing, which has been extracted and made readily accessible here (http://smartvote.in/voterlist/viewvoters.php?function=Search&ward=151) by SmartVote. The EPIC entries, which may have been corrected at the time of their issue (by the private contractors), but that is not official. [Tech Note: Survey open to all users, registered on Praja.in or not. Be assured that profile details of registered users (email, address) will NOT be shared with anyone.] |
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Mock BBMP Elections tomorrow (as originally scheduled) murali772 - 20-FEB-2010
Mock BBMP Elections to protest mockery of Elections |
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State Election Commission orders voter roll checking after citizens detect goof up vaishvittal - 17-FEB-2010
The English language voter rolls for several polling booths were found to be complete replications of entries from other booths, Smart Vote found out. Read more on Citizen Matters http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/1782-voters-list-goof-up-detected-by-smart-vote |
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Discussions on “New Age Political Movements in India” psaram42 - 17-FEB-2010
The meeting was held at 4th floor, Auditorium, St Josephs College of Commerce, 163, Brigade Road, Bangalore, on Monday February 15, 2010 between 5:30 – 7:30PM. It was attended by myself and pathy. |
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EC/ SEC - symbol of incompetence, incapacity, apathy, lack of accountability, all put together murali772 - 16-FEB-2010
During the Koramangala SmartVote exercise, this is what the members chanced upon "We introduced the software mainly to enable voters to start an easy search for their names on the voter lists online. However, in the process, we found that a number of names were exactly replicated. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Training for BBMP corporatorship aspirants murali772 - 13-JAN-2010
Urban Research Centre (URC) is a registered society, a non-profit organization – action-researching on decentralization, governance, globalization and environment. Urban Research Centre (URC) is working in the Coastal cities, Mangalore and Udupi towns with Civil society, Corporators (elected representatives) and the Urban local governments on participatory governance. |