Samuel Paul, chairman, Public Affairs Centre.The city’s infrastructure is on the verge of collapsing. It does not seem able to cope with the problems it faces. If a pothole is filled one day, the tar gets washed away in one rain the next day. There seems to be a combination of reasons for this sorry state of affairs...

Hassan Lok Sabha member H D Deve Gowda scored 100 per cent while Chikmagalur LS member Srikantappa a mere 14.1 per cent in utilisation of the MPLAD fund allocated by the Centre for local area development from 2004-09. Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, who was the MP of Udupi-Chikmagalur LS constituency, spent 41 per cent of thge funds. However, he had allotted 83.4 per cent of funds during 2009-11.

A majority of Parliament members from Karnataka have been miserly in spending money allocated to them under the MPLADS (Member Of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme) funds to ‘develop’ their constituencies, with one of them spending a mere 0.9 per cent of the grant.

About 120 policymakers, service managers, academics, and representatives of different development agencies [ PDF ] in the Philippines attended the launch of the e-learning toolkits [ PDF ] on the Citizen Report Card methodology and the Continuous Improvement and Benchmarking Techniques held at ADB Headquarters in Manila on 13 July 2006. The attendees were quite pleased to know about the e-learning toolkits. They also expressed commitment to promote and use them in their work.

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