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Income certificate for BPL families murali772 - 20-JUL-2012
Thousands of people thronged to Yelahanka tahsildar’s office on Thursday demanding income certificates to get below poverty line (BPL) cards. However, they lost their temper when they found that there was only one counter to issue the certificates. |
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Decentralized urban poor rehabilition strategy idontspam - 18-APR-2011
In the run up to Anna Hazare's fast & IAC's drive to the Jan Lok Pal bill one of the key topics that emerged was the kind of politicians & corporators we end up electing. It can be easily proven that this is not a countryside phenomenon and that the BBMP council also has its share of corporators with criminal history or no intention to address civic issues. |
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Houses for slum dwellers by Dec 2010 murali772 - 5-FEB-2010
Speaking after laying the foundation stone for construction of 1,500 houses in the Ragigudda slum at JP Nagar 2nd phase, the Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa said, “All 570 slums in the City will be rehabilitated under the JNNURM-BSUP scheme by Dec 2010 to make Bangalore a slum-free City". |
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Training for BBMP Corporate aspirants held on 27 Jan 2010 by Urban Research Center psaram42 - 28-JAN-2010
The Urban Research Center was founded by about 8 people and duly registered as a society on 31st Jan 2004. The main purpose of the center is supposed to be towards achieving good responsible governance both in Urban and rural context. It is stated briefly as |
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Public Agenda - 1-JUL-2009
How can a small almost unknown for profit company be made to spread its wings all over india. Todays news says it has grabbed a small project in Chennai for water leakage detection. |
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Urban minimum wage as election promise? silkboard - 7-APR-2009
Cities are not just about rich or middle classes. It is estimated that majority of residents (> 60%) in our cities belong in poor or lower middle income groups. I was wondering if Lok Sabha 2009 has seen any promises that would influence the votes of this sizeable group? |
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Great grand-mother of all scams murali772 - 27-MAR-2009
The poll-eve race among political parties to promise foodgrains at cheap rates to poor people, when implemented, is counter-productive, warns the Justice D P Wadhwa Committee in its report submitted to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. |
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81% 'below poverty line' in the state! murali772 - 18-MAR-2009
With elections on the horizon, the Yeddyurappa government directed the food and civil supplies department to give BPL ration cards to whoever produced an affidavit. Of the total 1.32 crore families in the state, today 1.07 crore, or 81% claim to be living below poverty line just to get access to the card! |
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ssheragu - 22-JUN-2008
the scheme of this new government for providing free housing to the poor / less fortunate is a welcome step. however I have my suggestions / comments for the same (1) the fact that India will be a developed country by 2015 / 2020 should be borne in mind when providing housing / facilities free of cost or otherwise to poor, downtrodden or any one. |