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Memorandum to GBA Chief Commissioner on Grievances

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(Regd., Public Charitable Trust No 599 / 94--95 IV) #54/1, First Floor, Basappa Cross Road, Shanthi Nagar, Bangalore 560027  Tel: 080-41144126, Mob: 9731817177;  E-mail: kchamaraj@gmail.com ; civicbangalore@gmail.com ; Website: www.civicspace.in Date: 26.02.2026 To Sri Maheshwar Rao, IAS Chief Commissioner Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) Bengaluru Respected Sir, SUBJECT:   1.  Requesting rainwater pits in all drain works being undertaken in Shanthinagar 2.  Request to instruct all agencies to provide child care facilities for workers’ children during all works 3.  Request to put up display boards giving scope of any work being taken up on roads and drains, water supply and sewerage, and sanctioned plans of buildings under construction Greetings from CIVIC Bangalore!  1. Lack of rainwater pits in all stormwater drain works of Shanthinagar: I heartily thank you for taking quick action on my earlier letter submitted to you regarding ongoing stormwater d...
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Need for Amendments to Electoral Laws

Need to bring amendments to our electoral and citizenship Acts to cleanse electoral rolls and frame a prospective method for determining citizenship The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that was done in Bihar and is being done now across all States, is a ‘descent into farce’, as an editorial in The Hindu put it. The SIR is fast making a laughing stock of the ECI but the blow it is delivering to the very electoral system, the foundation of our democracy, is nothing short of tragic. The farcical SIR makes it imperative for the government to take a fresh look at its retrospective demands for documents to determine eligibility of voters, the flawed procedures for registering voters and for defining citizenship. What has been exposed is the gross lack of accuracy of India's electoral rolls and the discriminatory laws for conferring citizenship. The following suggestions for having accurate and clean electoral rolls and for having a prospective process for according ci...
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