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June 1st, 2009
Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is one of the most inefficient and useless departments. Over years this department has been roting steadily. Instead of improving power situation and improving their service, they are looking for cheap popularity stunts such as million CFL campaign. Instead of increasing power production, they are asking people to switch of [...]
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April 8th, 2009
I am really surprised at the speed of adoption of Internet in government activities. The latest is the Web site hosted by Election commission for LokSabha elections 2009. The Chief Electoral Office Web site can be used to find your polling booth!! The best thing is that it works!
Here is a step by step guide,
1. [...]
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April 3rd, 2009
Resurvey of land in Kerala is probably the biggest running task (the most inefficient one also) undertaken by Government of Kerala. It is running since 1966 and yet the end is nowhere in sight. Funnier is the fact that since it is running for over 40 years, most of the information is completely out of [...]
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March 11th, 2009
Over the last few years Indian government and local state governments have been introducing a lot of stealth taxes. These are taxes never directly visible to people, but at the same time squeezes money from multiple points. I got a forwarded email which humorously analyzes the situation,
1) Que. : What are you doing?
Ans. : Business.
Tax [...]
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December 7th, 2008
Kerala Government and Free software community is organizing a 3 day conference on open source free software movement in Trivandrum, Kerala. The conference is organized at the Mascot hotel during 9-11 December and there is also an exhibition named “Freedom Expo 2008″ at the Kanakakkunnu Palace grounds. The highlight of the event is the participation [...]
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November 30th, 2008
We are under attack. As a democratic nation we have two options in front of us,
Resign to the fact that death of innocent civilians is the price we pay for peace.
OR
Eradicate the forces that finance and train people to attack us. Once and for all.
Take your pick.
Note: And you know what our corrupt and spineless politicians [...]
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October 12th, 2008
Earlier (1999) Railways had planned to construct a 45KM new railway line from Kottayam to Erumeli. After stiff resistance from environmental and farmer groups, this project was dropped. Then another project was proposed which will link Angamaly to Azhutha (120+ KM line). This project was called the “Sabari” project as it would link the pilgrim [...]
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October 8th, 2008
It is now pretty clear that Kerala is heading for a disastrous power crisis. The current power generation from hydro electric projects is about 20 million units while the consumption is double the production at 40 million units. The deficit electricity is bought from other states at a rate of over 9 rupees per unit. [...]
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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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