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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. |
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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. |
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Taxes & Corruption - comparative figures/estimate for Karnataka? silkboard - 15-AUG-2011
Last week, GoI released some data on Direct Tax collections. I thought why not compare them against estimates of "alleged size" of corruption in Karnataka. Why should we compare only Direct Tax? Because to me, this corruption thing we hear about is like corporates and individuals paying additional direct tax. |
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Bangalore Police - performance data silkboard - 28-SEP-2010
So, how much do you know about Police's performance. Policing is on part of infrastructure that doesn't get 'reviewed' as such. And thanks to movies and what not, our take on police is mostly based on misconpcetions, and not data. |
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silkboard - 22-SEP-2010
Data on traffic violations, by type - comparative statement: M.V. ACT Cases booked for years 2006 TO 2010 in Bangalore City:
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Number of vehicles registered in Bangalore silkboard - 22-SEP-2010
Number of Motor Vehicles registered & kept for use in Bangalore city, 1976 to 2009 (UPTO 31.12.2009)
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silkboard - 22-SEP-2010
Traffic is probably the most popular subject of discussion in Bengaluru. Language of rage, frustration, surprises and disappointments is universal, but attempts to collect menanigful information and data and analyze them are far and few. |
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Data from Bangalore Traffic Police silkboard - 22-SEP-2010
A gyan page to hold together posts that carry statistics and data received from Bangalore Traffic Police. Bangalore Traffic Police collects and maintains detailed statistics on |
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Counting the poor - how many do we have? silkboard - 15-JUL-2010
Public Agenda dear, here is that intellectually ruminating discussion we said we will have soon. How many poor people do we have in our country? The debate, and understanding the number is important because the classic quote goes - "you can't fix what you can't measure". If you can't count your poor, you can't check how your poverty alleviation programs are working. Two important things around which disagreements arise are 1) How do you define a poor household? 2) How exactly do you count people using the poverty definition you accept? First of all, the two popular stats that are quoted to start a discussions like this
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Analyzing Karnataka's Census data silkboard - 1-MAR-2010
Come 2011, and we will have our once in a decade census done. If the projections prove right (http://censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Projected_Population/Projected_Population.pdf), then Karnataka would be pegged at ~ 5.94 crore people. |