It is supposed to be an action oriented system with all the checks and balances One major imbalance is the lack of elected reprs since last 2 years. Exemptions are routinely made to route corruption--- and these are sometimes in cash or kind.
Many of you might have seen the news report about the fact that Bangalore will not receive JNNURM funds without a council being in place Sure we need to elect better Electd reps but what about having a role in getting a better BUREAUCRATS also Bangalore has gone from bad to worse in terms of all kinds of pollution .... We need citizens monitioring these works and also the *SECRET *records of the BUREAUCRATS every year..... KTPP will be done to death but what are the systemswhich will replace it .... Anil Kumar and others can vouch for how this act is already in its death throes..... but if there is right to recall for politicians then what are the tools we have for bureaucrats... On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Promod Kapur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I guess there will now be spate of protests, fault finding and accusations > etc. But here seems a man with a purpose, who wants to get on with life > without wasting time for things to happen in the normal course. Normal > Course in our system means endless wait for things to happen, without these > happening on time or happening with inflated revised budgets or not > happening at all. > > I am all for action oriented system - I hope we will let people work > without going into legal tangles. > > Major Kapur > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Vinay Baindur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> BBMP exempted from the need to invite tenders for civil works >> >> Staff Reporter >> >> Bangalore: In a bid to speed up various civil works related to storm-water >> drains in the new areas of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), >> the State Government has given exemption to the civic authority to inviting >> tenders as per the provisions of the Karnataka Transparency in Public >> Procurement Act. >> >> In an order issued in this regard, the Urban Development Department on >> Friday allowed the BBMP to take up 65 civil works estimated to cost Rs. 32 >> crore related to Hebbal, Koramangala and Challaghatta valleys based on the >> Scheduled Rate fixed by the Public Works Department (PWD) instead of >> inviting tenders. >> >> Government officials said that it was brought to the notice of the Chief >> Minister when he visited the rain-affected areas of the city recently that >> there was delay in commencing reconstruction of collapsed retaining walls of >> storm-water drains, widening, construction, reconstruction and removing silt >> from drains and other related works as tenders had not been finalised as per >> the Act. >> >> The BBMP, the officials said, was asked to send to a list of works that >> were required to take up urgently, to the Government. >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Citizens' Action Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/citizens-action-forum?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
