September 2, 2008
August 1, 2008
Minister’s EPIC will be corrected!
As per a news on the Deccan Chronicle today: ‘Male ID, but female photo‘
Amar Agrawal, a Cabinet rank minister of Chhattisgarh, was surprised when he received his voter identity card — every detail was perfect except for the photograph that showed a married woman wearing a sari.
Mr Agrawal holds health, urban administration and commercial taxes portfolios in the Raman Singh government.
“My voter identity card is perfectly right except that my photo was replaced by that of a woman. The officials concerned are taking a look at the matter and it will be corrected soon,” Mr Agrawal said on Thursday, from his home town Bilaspur. He said that his name, age, father’s name and even Bilaspur city’s house and ward number are mentioned correctly.
The only glaring anomaly was the photograph of a woman dressed in a sari wearing a mangalsutra.
“The publication of the preliminary voters list is in process as the state will go to the assembly polls in November and like my problem, several errors are being reported from various parts. Officials will surely correct it before the final list is out,” Mr Agrawal said.
The Congress has alleged that thousands of names of party workers and supporters have either been deleted from the voters’ list or have been replaced.
OK, so just because he’s a minister, his case became a big news and his voter ID card will be corrected soon. Then what about the 1000s of common citizens like us whose EPICs are rendered bogus due to numerous blunders in them? Is there any plan of the government to spend our tax money for correcting all of them?
June 29, 2008
June 3, 2008
May 7, 2008
EPIC: Such a waste of our tax money
A lot of people across Karnataka stood hours to get their EPIC cards (Voter ID Cards) printed. But at the end of the day it all turned out to be such a hoax and such wastage of out tax money, as if the government is dead sure, that they are not going to come back to power again.
Most of the citizens got these cards made for the chief purpose of being able to use them as their ID proof, Address proof and Date of birth proof for various other documents like Passport, PAN card, etc. But when they finally got the cards, it was such disappointing to see that 90% of the data printed on them are FALSE.
For most of them, the address printed on the back is completely wrong. e.g. more than 10000 people in our locality have the exact same address in ALL the cards, and that one address is also that of a house more than 10 KMs from the locality, a different PIN code altogether. There goes the dreams of using it as an address proof.
The date of birth printed is like ‘xx/xx/1980′ for all the cards. First of all, this drowns the hope of using this card as a date of birth proof. Even the year is wrong for most of the citizens. Probably just enough to prove that one is older than 18 years, so they can vote.
I’ll not even talk of other blunders, like spelling mistakes in the names, incorrect father’s/husband’s names, father’s name in place of husband’s name and vice versa, etc…
Even the rooms where webcams were fitted to take photos, are so dimly lit, that everyone looks more like the ghosts they might look like after their death, than how they look now. So finally forget about using it as an ID proof either.
Ultimately, the only use left for these pieces of junk is to show it at the time of voting and then throw it away in the dustbin outside the polling booth.
I fail to understand, what was the necessity in spending so much for making these junks?
April 11, 2008
April 10, 2008
Wake Up Techies!!
The Elections for Bangalore Assembly seats will be held on 10th May 2008. A swing of just 2000 votes can decide the winner of a constituency. You as a techie can create that swing. How? By enrolling people by word of mouth and by internet campaign. A winning candidate normally gets about 40,000 votes and the average difference between winning and losing candidates is just 4000 votes.
There are 28 assembly seats in Bangalore and there are about 10,000 software engineers (techies) in each constituency. So, techies are powerful enough to make a big swing in the elections and that can impact the outcome of assembly election in Karnataka.
Techies!! You have complained enough about bad roads, traffic, corruption and bad governance. Now, it is the time to show the politicians that you have also got strings to pull. Once politicians know that you can pull strings, they will respect you and will start listening to you.
The other way is to claim that all politicians are same and act like a loser and avoid making an impact in the elections. A 2% swing in elections can change the outcome of any election. Techies can make that happen.
Wake up!! and Use your Brains!!
Divide and Rule!!
Jai Hind.
