Bangaloreans Have you ever Greased a greedy palm?(I am sure you Did) Whose, and how much? Tell the world — it could be a petty Rs 20 over the fare to the autodriver, or a hefty sum to a government official. You can log on to ipaidabribe.com and list your soul-smirching [...]]]>

I Paid A Bribe

Bangaloreans Have you ever Greased a greedy palm?(I am sure you Did) Whose, and how much? Tell the world — it could be a petty Rs 20 over the fare to the autodriver, or a hefty sum to a government official. You can log on to ipaidabribe.com and list your soul-smirching experience.

Set up by Janaagraha on August 15, this website has already gathered 130 reports by people who paid up various denominations for various services. While someone paid Rs 3,000 to an agent to get married, another person from Chennai had to pay a similar sum to get a death certificate after his mother’s death. A group of youngsters, out late in the night, paid up Rs 7,000 to cops to wriggle out of a sticky situation.

These are only a few examples of the bribery cases uploaded on ipaidabribe.com. Here, you can make public what you paid as bribe, when and to whom. But whether this is shame enough for our thick-skinned babus, only time will tell. You could also upload how you managed to get a job done without paying a bribe or how a very honest officer helped you.

www.ipaidabribe.com is Janaagraha’s campaign to have citizens from all cities upload their bribe tales. This unique campaign will document how big the problem of corruption is.

The Website Does not ask you to Share your Details and promises that it will never share your info with any third parties.

On this site you can see the lowest bribe paid is to the Traffic Police and the Highest to the Sub-registrars to register the Property going up to Rs.45000.
Source:Times of India

The BBMP has resumed issuing voter’s photo identity cards (EPIC).  It has been distributing forms with names and other details to those whose names are in the electoral list, but do not have photo ID cards. Besides, they are also correcting mistakes in those IDs where there are mistakes. [...]]]>

Voter's ID Cards

The BBMP has resumed issuing voter’s photo identity cards (EPIC).  It has been distributing forms with names and other details to those whose names are in the electoral list, but do not have photo ID cards. Besides, they are
also correcting mistakes in those IDs where there are mistakes. The BBMP has resumed issuing voter’s photo identity cards (EPIC).  It has been distributing forms with names and other details to those whose names are in the electoral list, but do not have photo ID cards. Besides, they are also correcting mistakes in those IDs where there are mistakes. submitting a filled up Form-6 and your name will be registered in the voters’ list. The last date is July 6 for inclusion of names.

The ID cards are being distributed in various locations in and around HSR Layout through out July to October months.
From_______To_________Location________________________________________________
11/08/2009 – 31/08/2009 – Cambridge Public School,22nd Main,11th Cross HSR 1st Sector
18/08/2009 – 18/08/2009 – HSR Indian Public School,Madina Nagar , Bommanahalli,,,
01/09/2009 – 20/09/2009 – GHPS Agara
12/09/2009 – 12/09/2009 – Govt. Urdru Higher Primary School,Madina Nagar , Mangammana Palya,,
13/09/2009 – 17/09/2009 – Sadguru Sai Baba Higher Primary School,Roopena Agrahara.,,,
19/09/2009 – 22/09/2009 – Reddy Janasanga High School,Roopena Agrahara,,,
25/09/2009 – 26/09/2009 – Multy Purpose Hall,C P W D Quatres, H S R Layout.,,
29/09/2009 – 30/09/2009 – Lawrence English School,9th Main , 6th Sector , HSR Layout,

For more details look up “175-BOMMANAHALLI” at Bangalorevoterid.net for the schedule

If your name is not in the voters’ list, please submit the Form 6 application at BBMP Bommanhalli office, to include your name on the list. Click here for the Form 6.
Source:Jagran City Plus & HSR Federation

The HSR Layout residents and          their Corporator Latha Narasimhamurthy are going all out to make their layout clean and garbage-free. They had launched a campaign recently to create awareness about waste segregation in Agara Village and HSR Layout 4th Sector. The campaign emphasized the need for separating wet and [...]]]>

Green=Organic, Red=Inorganic

The HSR Layout residents and          their Corporator Latha Narasimhamurthy are going all out to make their layout clean and garbage-free. They had launched a campaign recently to create awareness about waste segregation in Agara Village and HSR Layout 4th Sector. The campaign emphasized the need for separating wet and dry kitchen wastes and putting them in two different bins (red and green) and handing them over to garbage collectors.

BBMP has already supplied 1,000 red bins and 1,000 green bins to ward No 174, each of which has a capacity to carry two to three kg of waste.  Most of the residents in Agara Village have received the bins and are using them, but the residents in Sector 4 say that they have received only about 50 bins.However, here is the big question: Will the residents use these bins in an effective way even after receiving these dustbins? To this, the Corporator Latha Narasimhamurthy said, “We are not distributing these waste bins just because they come free. We are making people aware of the waste management system and its uses during the door-to-door distribution. We also collect data like the names of the residents, their phone numbers and addresses. This helps us keep track of the waste disposal.”
She also said, “We thought that since Sector 4 is a small area, we will cover the whole sector by distributing waste bins and make it a modal sector. But now we are facing difficulties. Volunteers are very few and many houses will be closed and some won’t open their doors at all. So we have now decided to distribute them in 7th Sector since they too require them.”
By -Punnyavathi Gouli S,  Source Dainik Jagran CityPlus

Have an aim in life and work hard towards realizing the goals – advised former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam.

Inaugurating the JSS Public School at HSR Layout on Thursday, Kalam interacted with students, narrated stories as well as made them take an oath to lead an honest life, free from [...]]]>

Dr.APJ Abdul Kalaam

Have an aim in life and work hard towards realizing the goals – advised former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam.

Inaugurating the JSS Public School at HSR Layout on Thursday, Kalam interacted with students, narrated stories as well as made them take an oath to lead an honest life, free from corruption.

“Having a small aim in life is a crime. We need to work with integrity. It’s important to achieve success with integrity,” Kalam said.

Speaking on ‘What milestone will I create in my journey of life’, Kalam said: “To be successful four important principles are – have an aim in life, acquire knowledge, work hard, have perseverance and learn to manage time.”

Dr Kalam emphasized that each individual should plant 10 saplings to achieve a target of having 10 billion new trees by 2015.

Encouraging youngsters to inculcate the habit of reading, the former President advised students to have a home library.

Though the event was delayed by more than an hour, students waited patiently and interacted enthusiastically with the President.

Dr Sri Shivakumara Swamiji asked students to protect freedom of the country and work towards nation building.

Suttur Kshetra, Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra swamiji, said, “The JSS school at HSR Layout started with four students six years ago and today it has more than 1,000.”

The event was presided by governor of Tripura Dr D Y Patil and minister for transport R Ashok, minister for primary and secondary education Vishveshwara Hegde Kageri, BBMP mayor S K Nataraj and deputy mayor N Dayanand
Source:Times of India

His Excellency Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalaam will be visiting HSR Layout to inaugrate the New Building of JSS Public School tomorrow (i.e, 29th July, 2010). The ceremony is scheduled to take place after 4pm at the JSS Public School on 14th Main, adjacent to BDA Complex, in 6th Sector.

More Information is available [...]]]>

JSS Public School-HSR Layout

His Excellency Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalaam will be visiting HSR Layout to inaugrate the New Building of JSS Public School tomorrow (i.e, 29th July, 2010). The ceremony is scheduled to take place after 4pm at the JSS Public School on 14th Main, adjacent to BDA Complex, in 6th Sector.

More Information is available on the Schools website www.jssonline.org

At Last some peace comes to our Neighborhood as the Traffic Police have canceled the one way rule for 27th main and 10th cross, also they have unblocked all the connecting roads where they had dumped the debris to restrict the vehicle movement. Now no need to worry about getting into any [...]]]>

No More Oneways!

At Last some peace comes to our Neighborhood as the Traffic Police have canceled the one way rule for 27th main and 10th cross, also they have unblocked all the connecting roads where they had dumped the debris to restrict the vehicle movement. Now no need to worry about getting into any road. The traffic has been reduced to a great extent and now HSRians can feel little bit safer while crossing the roads!

The Road widening work which had been stopped due to BBMP ELections have been resumed and many roads mainly 27th Main and part of 19th Main etc are being widened up.

People in Bangalore have been known to use several novel methods to keep their neighborhood clean, but residents of HSR Layout have come up with a rather simple way to deal with trash offenders: they go and have a polite conversation with them.

The idea, said R S Hiremath, president, HSR [...]]]>

The Revolution Starts at Home

People in Bangalore have been known to use several novel methods to keep their neighborhood clean, but residents of HSR Layout have come up with a rather simple way to deal with trash offenders: they go and have a polite conversation with them.

The idea, said R S Hiremath, president, HSR Layout Sector 2 Residents’ Welfare Association, is not to reason with those who dump garbage in someone else’s yard but to understand them. “We want to know their psychology,” he told Bangalore Mirror.

Every Saturday for the last two weeks, five volunteers from the 10-member association five people have been standing near empty sites in the layout, and watching out for trash offenders. “Around 6 am, maids or housewives come to throw garbage.

Some do it because they have no  choice, but schools, hospitals, and shops come because they haven’t set up their own waste collection systems,” said the 48-year-old Hiremath.

Volunteers go up and casually talk to people casually dumping garbage. They try to persuade the offenders to stop the practice.

ROUND TWO

The group plans to print information collected from such interactions on handbills, and offer solutions to illegal dumping. One solution is to install more wayside garbage bins, and the association is working on that. “In HSR Layout Sector 2, we have about 400 homes. We will give out handbills to all of them,” he said.

Rithika Tiwari, another member of the association, said that garbage collection was not organised enough. “We have found out that many homes don’t have a garbage collection process. Also, we have few dustbins in the area,” she said.

Dr Meenakshi Bharat, who spearheaded a source segregation and solid waste management campaign at Malleswaram, said, “This campaign will help. HSR Layout is a fairly new layout, with a number of individual houses. The residents should know how to handle their garbage.”

Hiremath and his men also plan to talk to institutional offenders and help them set up garbage disposal systems.

Source: Bangalore Mirror, By-Gayatri Nair