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Ammu Joseph
Jun 29 2008
BLOG: Citisense
While high profile, high powered summits on urban infrastructure development are hogging media headlines, a more low-key process taking place on the ground holds out hope for the beleaguered residents of one corner of the city.
Jun 02 2008
BLOG: Citisense
Only an informed and systematic approach to civic problems will yield the necessary results. Knee-jerk efforts to please and placate residents in the short term, without keeping the big picture in mind, will only result in more money flowing down the drain, literally and figuratively. One can only hope that our newly installed government and freshly elected MLAs will not only listen to residents’ problems but also tap citizens for information and ideas that can result in sensible, considered plans and positive, constructive action to solve them once and for all.
May 24 2008
BLOG: Citisense
In a recent article columnist Gurcharan Das suggested encouragingly that citizens can make a difference to city life if they really try. Is it really for want of trying that Bangalore's citizens have not been able to make much of a dent in the city's apparently chronic problems?
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May 07 2008
BLOG: Citisense
Candidates standing for election to the state assembly from urban constituencies should concentrate on understanding what really ails cities and towns, and what needs to be done at the policy and planning level to remedy the situation. Instead most seem to be promising to tackle problems that would not exist if the officials and elected representatives responsible for urban development and city management were doing their duty.
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Apr 02 2008
BLOG: Citisense
VIPs continue to be stumbling blocks in the paths of ordinary citizens even in residential areas.
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Mar 25 2008
BLOG: Citisense
Why is it that today's elected representatives cannot come and go like everyone else?
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Mar 18 2008
BLOG: Citisense
The ongoing brouhaha over the Bangalore International Airport (BIAL) is only the latest example of the total lack of transparency and complete disregard for citizens’ rights to information and self-determination that mark planning (if any) for the city’s development.