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National consultation on “How Inclusive are our Cities?"

murali772 - 25-JAN-2012

CIVIC Bangalore, INHAF and Hazards Centre have great pleasure in inviting you to a National consultation on “How Inclusive are our Cities? Implications for the 12th Five-Year Plan from the Perspective of the Urban Poor”
Date:  Friday, 27th and Saturday, 28th January 2012
Time:  9.00 AM to 5.30 PM

Team SSK - run for inclusion

murali772 - 17-NOV-2011

We would like to cordially invite you to the 'Team SSK - run for inclusion' organized by Spastics Society of Karnataka on Nov 27th, Sunday. The event will focus on inclusive living and bringing together communities. We will strive to create awareness about the need for sensitivity towards the disabled and their needs.

Right to response in English

murali772 - 17-MAY-2010

From over a year now, the responses from GoK officials to queries under RTI, are being made out only in Kannada, even when raised in English, and even when specifically requested to respond in English.

Now, though I can speak Kannada fairly fluently; I can't read or write the language (Questions as to why people like me haven't bothered to learn to read and write the language can be the subject of another blog; but, please do not bring it up here). However, even true-blue Kannadiga's, to whom I have been referring these official responses, have been having difficulty figuring out the specific nuances pertaining to the issues involved.

As such, I feel this is a strategy being adopted by the babu's largely to obfuscate and prevaricate on issues. And, it is certainly having its effects - like from over a year, I have not filed a single query, though I used to be quite a regular before.

In the light of all these, on the 1st of this year, I filed a query as under:

Round Table on 74th CA, Inclusive & Participatory Governance for Bangalore: Opportunities & Challenges

murali772 - 16-FEB-2010

Key-note address by: Dr. A. Ravindra, IAS (Retd.), Urban Advisor to CM, GoK, Former Chief Secretary, GoK
Presided by: Prof. B. K. Chandrashekar, Former Chairperson, Karnataka Legislative Council will preside