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murali772 - 6-SEP-2010
There is worldwide acceptance of the need for a paper trail in conjunction with EVMs. Electronic voting was introduced in many countries. But serious doubts were soon raised about the security, accuracy, reliability and verifiability of electronic elections. In October 2006, the Netherlands banned the use of EVMs. In 2009, the Republic of Ireland declared a moratorium on their use. |
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Car usage disincentives - it's happening murali772 - 24-AUG-2010
Are you a resident of Mizoram capital Aizawl? If yes, do not buy a car until you have a garage or parking space. Grappled with constant traffic snarls, Mizoram has finally found a way out, banning the sale of vehicles to any individual who does not own a garage or parking space. A car purchased after August 30 will be viewed illegal if its owner does not possess a garage or parking space. |
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murali772 - 24-AUG-2010
ASI Nagarajappa and constables Venkatesh, Veerabhadraiah and Nagappa attached to Sanjaynagar police station were suspended, pending a departmental inquiry. On August 2, they barged into an apartment where a birthday party was being celebrated and illegally detained some persons and demanded money for their release. |
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murali772 - 21-AUG-2010
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Right to Information act (RTI) and transparency psaram42 - 16-AUG-2010
In this age of the internet and exponential growth of the web, the RTI act 2005 should have been at best, a history by now. It is amazing to read the RTI 2005 document available on the web. It creates posts like Chief Information Commissioner and what not, for providing the so called information. I admit I could not, nor was I interested in reading this kind of document. |
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PRAJA Saarige not to be, atleast for now murali772 - 13-AUG-2010
After a persistent pursuit, through registered letters, RTI queries, appeals, etc, targeted primarily at the Commissioner for Transport in Karnataka, he has finally got the the RTO, Koramangala, to write to me officially to say that I cannot be issued a license to operate 'majilu vahanagalu' (meaning 'stage carriage', I guess) in the city. |
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Naveen - 6-AUG-2010
Finally, heads begin to roll after a week of denials - see this report. |
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Do Water & Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Acts cover housing complexes? murali772 - 31-JUL-2010
When the KSPCB sent us a notice for the first time in May, '07, I, as the then President of the association, raised a query with them as under:
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Pollution Control Board - the government's cash cow murali772 - 30-JUL-2010
Even as BWSSB, KPCL, KPTCL, BESCOM, etc are desperately strapped for cash, there is another government agency that's just rolling in money, viz the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB). A cursory glance at the financial statements, provided on its web-site ( http://www.kspcb.gov.in/ - though not quite in a reader friendly way as one would have liked it, which but is quite the norm with most government agency web-sites), shows the revenues at Rs 190 cr for total expenses of just Rs 23.54 cr, a mere 12% of the revenues, with the direct costs being just 5%. And, it's not as if they are being very frugal in their practices or anything like that. |
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BWSSB - story of unclaimed dues murali772 - 30-JUL-2010
Though fund-starved, BWSSB is doing little to claim dues running into crores of rupees from Govt agencies. Says Board chairman P B Ramamurthy: "Since bill collection is the main source of revenue for BWSSB, we have been continuously pressing both the government and semi-government bodies to pay their bills.''
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A week from now, a woman police officer will be manning Bangalore City west division traffic, with 21 traffic police stations and four sub-divisions under her purview.