Posts : accountability

Update on Koramangala projects

murali772 - 18-NOV-2019

With the Ward Committee's largely dysfunctional (check here), I am appending below my version (gathered from exchanges on various WhatsApp groups, and hearsay - if anyone has more authentic info, they are most welcome to correct me) of an update on various projects in the Koramangala area:

 

1) Ejipura-KendriyaSadan Elevated...

Listing points I'd like to be taken up at Egipura Ward (No148) Committee meet

murali772 - 29-NOV-2018

Listing below points that I's like taken up at the Egipura Ward (No 148) Committee meet scheduled for 11AM on 1st Dec, '18:
 
1) Flood mitigation plan: What had been told to us is that a pipe is being laid below the road from near Sony World junction to near Kamal Bakery junction, where the water will be collected

Updated Ward Committee Rules dated 22.6.16

murali772 - 10-SEP-2016

Following is the text of the letter received from Smt Kathyayini Chamaraj, Executive Trustee, CIVIC Bangalore, following the recent finalisation of the updated Ward Committee rules:

Dear friends,

PIL challenging veto power of Ward Committee Chairperson

murali772 - 1-DEC-2015

The High Court on Monday issued notice to the state government on a public interest litigation questioning the veto power granted to councillors as chairpersons of ward committees under the Karnataka Municipal Corporations (KMC), Act, 1976.

Questions on legislative functioning

murali772 - 21-JUL-2015

The people be damned — no one cares about the delay in the GST or the land acquisition law or the lives of the jobless young — as long my salary as an MP is doubled.

BBMP's misplaced priorities

murali772 - 16-DEC-2014

On the one hand, we have been reading repeatedly in the press that the BBMP is broke, and not in a oposition to pay contractors' bills in hundreds/ thousands of crores.

BWSSB's deathtraps

murali772 - 21-JAN-2014

The pictures below offer two views of a dig-up (on 12th main, HAL 2nd stage, Indiranagar, adjacent to Corner House), obviously by BWSSB, to access their manhole cover, the top of which has gone almost a foot below the re-tarred road surface.

Can the country's higher judiciary too be bought off?

murali772 - 19-JAN-2014

The WIPRO case:

deathly underpasses

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

Time for Siddaramaiah to switch to AAP?

murali772 - 2-JAN-2014

Amidst displeasure expressed by some Congress MLAs and flak from civil society activists, Congress MLAs D K Shiva Kumar and R Roshan Baig were sworn in as cabinet ministers here on Wednesday. Both Shiva Kumar and Baig were administered the oath of office and secrecy by governor H R Bhardwaj at Raj Bhavan.