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August 12th, 2008
If any of you have recently visited Ernakulam, you know the traffic jam problems. The roads are congested and is being utilized well over its capacity. Road rage is a common incident and sometimes it even takes an hour to cover 5 Kilometres.
The only long term solution to this is the Metro rail. All [...]
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August 3rd, 2008
News : All Kerala Federation of Petroleum Dealers had earlier declared that they won’t sell petrol below 1 litre and it is already enforced in Kerala. No one cares that such a decision is illegal. Now they have said that petrol pumps won’t open on sunday and on working days they will operate only from [...]
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July 13th, 2008
The minimum education qualification required to apply for the post of a Lower Division Clerk in government service is SSLC (10th standard pass). The pay scale is around 3000-5000 and it is not easy to get this job. You need to work hard in the PSC test to get in.
But unfortunately in order to become [...]
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July 10th, 2008
In Malayalam there is a saying - "onnukila asante nenchathu allengil kalarikku purathu" which when translated means "either on teachers chest or outside school". You get the idea.
The same thing happening in technology adoption Kerala. When it comes to Kerala government departments such as KSRTC, Electricity Board or Water Authority technology adoption is zero. You [...]
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June 22nd, 2008
When it comes to road infrastructure, Kerala is lagging behind other states. Marxist party was opposing the national highway expansion program since they were against toll collection on the highways. As usual common sense came 2 years later and they mysteriously changed their stance and said tolls are good for the people. So after a [...]
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June 5th, 2008
I have been a strong advocate of privatization and I have written many posts before on why we need strong competition in the market to ensure consumer protection. But unfortunately even at this early stage, private companies are displaying such greed that I am getting skeptical now. In a country like India where people look [...]
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May 10th, 2008
In an idiotic move, Kerala government completely banned private bus services in nationalized routes from today. Earlier private buses were allowed to run up to 10KM through nationalized routes. Now not even an inch through the nationalized routes are allowed and that means they can’t even cross them.
This move will surely bring untold misery to [...]
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May 8th, 2008
Our first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru was a good person. But as a prime minister he was an utter failure. His concept of idiotic “socialism” is the primary reason why it took almost 40 years for us to bring liberalisation. For him, the word “profit” was devil and millions of Indians suffered in poverty due [...]
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April 19th, 2008
Village offices in Kerala are well known for corruption. A number of certificates are issued from village offices (income certificate, nativity certificate etc.) and invariably bribe is required to get them. Some may argue that you can still get the certificates without bribe, but that will require 3 or more village office visits!
Historically village officers [...]
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March 30th, 2008
An agitation by advocates in Trivandrum is now in "hot" stage. They are demanding a high court bench in Trivandrum. A lot of unions/organizations have expressed their solidarity with lawyers and is very happy to fuel the agitation. Every one says that "common man" in Trivandrum need a high court. But my question is [...]
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March 14th, 2008
According to the latest report by accounts general, Kerala’s total debt is now over fifty thousand crore rupees! The increase in debt was about 2500 crores just in last 8 months! This is now a ticking bomb, which if not addressed quickly will spiral into total disaster..
Think about this - there will not be more [...]
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February 26th, 2008
As part of the SMART Move initiative, motor vehicle department in Kerala has put all the vehicle details and driving license details online. You can access it here. The online facilities include driving license test scheduling details, details about your license application, fancy number availability and registration details of a given vehicle number. These facilities [...]
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December 20th, 2007
Ok. Here is some good news from Kerala. According to this report, Pattanamthitta may soon get ISO certification for its government related operations.
Whether it is getting a certificate, a matter of revenue recovery, internal auditing or social issues, all programmes and policies have to be over within a deadline.
The idea of improving government [...]
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October 6th, 2007
Over last few weeks, atleast 20 people died just due to bad condition of roads in Kerala. Whenever a decision is made to cut a tree to widen a road, you might see a huge army of “intellectuals” protesting against it. But when people die just because roads are not repaired, no one bothers. The [...]
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June 14th, 2007
Kerala electricity board is another government department which is consistently on loss. But that doesn’t prevent them paying the maximum salary for its employees. In fact, it is highest paymaster in Kerala government.
Now they have found a way to extract more money from electricity consumers. Charge a hefty additional caution deposit from everyone. You would [...]
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