Time for Comments - Citizens Grievance Redressal Bill 2011

kbsyed61 - 2-NOV-2011

Time for review of the proposed "CITIZENS RIGHT TO GRIEVANCE REDRESS BILL, 2011" drafted by the Government Of India.

Source - GOIs Deaprtment of Administrative Reforms Na d Public Grievances

Mr Farook vs MLA Sampangi @ Kolar - story trail

silkboard - 29-OCT-2011

This is an interesting one from Lokayukta's list. Not sure if all of you remember the case of Kolar MLA caught taking bribe. The story here is different from Land conversions or bloated tenders. read the trail

The Hindu, Jan 30, 2009 - KGF MLA caught after 'accepting' bribe (link)

Karnataka, Corruption and Numbers

silkboard - 27-OCT-2011

A book to hold together numbers regarding corruption in Karnataka. Thanks to Lokayukta and the likes, there are a good number of corruption related cases against high profile politicians in courts of Karnataka. Since actual investigations are on, fir the first time, we are seeing a lot of numbers being put to this "elephant in the room" called corruption.

Bengaluru Ministers & Corruption - in numbers

silkboard - 27-OCT-2011

With so many high profile guys in jail, or at the door steps, one good thing that I see is that Media is becoming more and more comfortable carrying numbers in their reports on corruption. What we knew and heard through the 'grapevine', now has concrete numbers. But this is probably because of well documented and researched Lokayukta reports.

Corrupted policeman in bangalore

vimal kumar - 14-OCT-2011

Hi, Myself vimal kumar. I am a student. The last month 30th sept 2011, I went to watch cricket match CLT20 in  the chinnaswamy stadium with my friend. we had the digital camera and pendrive. the security guard were not allowing us with these 2 things.so we were discussing with the security guard that where we'll keep these things. we came from a long distance.

Reflections on the Lokayukta Report

murali772 - 11-OCT-2011

This event took place on the 1st Oct. I was not sure if the invitation sent was specific to me, or open, and by the time I got an aswer to my querry to the same effect, it was too late to publish on PRAJA, as an event.

The discussion note circulated in advance read as below:

Apathy of the BWSSB towards the LIC Colony,Jeevan Bima Nagar,BLR

Residents Forum - 11-OCT-2011

Hi all

Do we need transparency and legal processes in new road projects in Bangalore / Karnataka?

Public Agenda - 8-OCT-2011

Despite all the calls for good governance and  transparency and so much to do with roads, in terms of corruption why does this kind of news keep on happening.

We dont know whether Tender Sure was discussed by Janagraha IUSF, BCCT etc with many 'experts' as mentioned in the

How Indian Doctors Loot Patients

murali772 - 27-SEP-2011

This is by Dr B M Hegde, MD, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPG, FRCPI, FACC, FAMS  -  Padma Bhushan Awardee 2010 (for more on him, click here), which has been doing the Yahoo/ Google - group rounds of recent:

Is Public Works Coordination Agreement working? Fresh roads still being dug up

vijaypadiyar - 17-SEP-2011

Like many others, I was very happy when the Public Works Coordination Agreement was put in place to have better coordination between various civic agencies.