Environment management gone in the wrong hands
Environment management gone in the wrong hands
ByY Maheswara ReddyY Maheswara Reddy / Updated: Jul 30, 2021, 06:00 IST
Environmentalists say most members nominated to regulatory bodies are ineligible
Becoming a part of regulatory bodies like
State Environment Assessment Committee (SEAC) and
State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (
SEIAA) requires a person to be highly qualified and an expert in the particular field.
However, the latest nomination to the bodies doesn’t seem to be meeting their standards. The environmentalists and social activists allege that proper norms were not followed while new members were recently nominated to the regulatory bodies. According to the activists, many of the nominees are either underqualified or have conflicts of interest.
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12 years on, this traffic cop never got a transfer
12 years on, this traffic cop never got a transfer
Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Jul 10, 2021, 06:00 IST
Head Constable Dinesh
Rules state that a policeman needs to be transferred once in every five years, but that is not the case for the head constable of
Sadashivanagar Traffic Police Station
The policemen who look for ways to evade transfer from one station to another, they could find some tips from Dinesh, head constable at Sadashivanagar Traffic Police Station. He seems to be one of those policemen who are immune to transfer.
According to a
This BBMP engineer is holding 4 forts at once
This BBMP engineer is holding 4 forts at once
ByY Maheswara ReddyY Maheswara Reddy / Updated: Jul 1, 2021, 06:00 IST
The
recruitment structure of most government offices works on the same line. However, it looks like the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (
BBMP) is working differently from other government departments when it comes to assigning responsibilities to the engineers.
As per the norms, an engineer is assigned to look after a particular ward or a particular work but the BBMP has assigned a mechanical engineer three posts at its
transport department apart from allowing him to work as an executive engineer at its multi-purpose engineering department.
SHAMELESS iPADYATRIS
Former corporators are keeping tabs. Not on their wards, but they’re keeping the
iPads that were given to them. It’s 20 months since their term ended but 95 former corporators are still holding tight to those tabs
Three days after the
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike presented its budget in 2018, and as promised, corporators from 198 wards were given an iPad Air 2 each. The Palike spent Rs 88 lakh on these state-of-the-art devices, despite many corporators saying, that they didn’t know how to use them.
As per the documents available with the
Bangalore Mirror, 95 former corporators have not returned their tabs despite repeated reminders from the