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Question of Corporate citizens' accountability murali772 - 19-JAN-2014
My posting a link to this comment on the non-professional methods adopted by BBMP to collect property tax dues (going by BBMP's claim) from WIPRO, on OneBengaluruGoogleGroup, led to the following exchange with DV (incidentally, a |
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Arbitrary and unfair water tariff increase for apartment complexes murali772 - 14-JAN-2014
Attached is the minutes of the meeting between BAF (Bangalore Apartments Federation, representing 45 apartment complexes) members & BWSSB Chairman Mr. Ravi Shankar, held on 08 Jan 2014. |
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murali772 - 7-JAN-2014
The following is the first person account, narrated to me by a friend, of his, his wife's and his driver's almost having drowned in their car in the flooded underpass, near Pebble Bay apartment complex (Hebbal - check location here), on the morning of the 8th Oct, '13 (Since the friend had |
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An example of how a government office's functioning can transform murali772 - 19-DEC-2013
The following is about the last of the mails, posted a few weeks back by an entrepreneur (I'll refer to him as HK), in a chain of mail exchanges over the "OneBengaluru google-group", detailing the transformation in the attitude (for the better) of the Commercial Tax department officials in Bengaluru towards him and his colleagues. |
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Exemplary collaborative effort murali772 - 6-DEC-2013
The following is the text of a mail posted on the "saveKoramangala" yahoo-group by Mr Nitin Seshadri, Sec, Koramangala 3rd block assn, says it all. |
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Koramangala's latest challenge - Hosur road underpasses murali772 - 5-DEC-2013
After the "Sarjapur road signal-free corridor" fiasco (check here), where, perhaps for the first time in the history of the city, the road was ordered to be restored to its original condition, after considerable civil work had already progressed, one would have thought that the powers be |
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Bangalore's Bicycle and Pedestrian Crowdmap neelakshijoshi - 13-NOV-2013
I am trying to build a crowdmap for frequent biking and pedestrian routes in Bangalore.
Also to collect some pics and identify problem points.
Globally crowdmaps are be
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Isn't this New York model the one we should be adopting? murali772 - 20-OCT-2013
Click on the link below to watch a TED presentation by Ms Janette Sadik-Khan, Transportation commissioner, New York City, on how the city is being transformed taking pedestrianisation and cycling to a new high: |
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Blatant violations of rule of law murali772 - 1-OCT-2013
Now, even as I had just finished publishing the post titled "re-assertion of the rule of law?", pertaining to the government clearing encroachments onto the Kaggadaspura lake (check this), I was hit by this bombshell of a post (full text below) on "SaveKoramangala Ya |
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Data in Government offices - How safe are they? Vasanth - 24-SEP-2013
Today morning I had suprise visitors to my home from Bescom. Two men in a scooter, one person ready to remove the electric fuse at home. They came and suddenly asked for the receipt of last month's electricity bill. I had kept it somewhere and had to search all over home. |