Posts : scams

BBMP road history - site working

srinidhi - 17-MAY-2016

BBMP seems to have made a  silent move after the initial hype about the road history being available of all roads in Bangalore which was announced few months ago..a google search leads to the below site which gives the information:

http://218.248.45.164:8080/BBMPCitizen/

Use IE to open it (needs silverlight), chrome needs some tweaks to make it work.

Fountainhead of scams

murali772 - 1-JAN-2014

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probing the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) recruitment scam has found that 15 per cent of the total aspirants paid bribes ranging from Rs. 45 lakh to Rs. 75 lakh fixed by Chairman, Gonal Bheemappa, and other members of the commission.

LOCAL Scams RTI and political activism

Public Agenda - 23-NOV-2010

Seems quite amazing that since 2 1/2 years and even before the Govt has sunk in land scams and we all knew this from the politicians affidavits in elections but the lid was blown by the former CM and political opponents and RTI activists.

In the emergency how many more people were on the streets

Right to Information (RTI) act

psaram42 - 14-JAN-2010

 RTI is a powerful tool provided by the Government of India and in tern by each of the individual States. Of late TOI and many news papers have taken the RTI route to expose scams themselves. To days TOI carried the details of the RWA meet organized by the paper yesterday (Wednesday).

Slum redevelopment authority and its questionable plans

asj - 10-JUL-2009

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Mumbai/Dharavi-remake-plan-a-

Fight to save Pune Green Cover & Public Spaces - Last date for sending objections 02 Dec 08

asj - 10-OCT-2008

In late 90s, Pune city limits were expanded by including 23 fringe villages within corporation bounds. As per law, these new areas needed to have a development plan. The intent was to allow development to happen even on hills.