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By Afshan Yasmeen
BANGALORE, JAN. 18. It is common to find dead persons' names on the Bangalore Mahangara Palike (BMP) voters' lists. But, what about a dead corporator's name in the list of corporators on the BMP's official website? Yes, the Hombegowdanagar corporator, D. Shaila, who was found murdered in November 2003, still figures in the list. This, even though Vasantha Ravi is now the ward corporator elected in the byelections conducted last year. That is not all. The Airport ward had no corporator for over 10 months after the Karnataka High Court quashed Reena Janardhan Reddy's election for not fulfilling the age criteria. Though Nagaratna Chandrappa Reddy was later elected to that ward simultaneously with Ms. Vasantha, Ms. Janardhan Reddy is still on the list.
More surprises
There are more surprises. For the BMP, P.R. Ramesh is still the Mayor though he handed over charge on November 29 to R. Narayanswamy. The new Commissioner, K. Jothiramalingam, figures on the site, but his name has been wrongly spelt as "JyothiRamalingam".
Links
And if you click on some of the links, they take you nowhere. All that you get is an error message. Except for the heads that read ``vision'' and ``message'', the other sections such as ``Council", ``Departments", ``Budget", ``Forms and Guides'' and ``Press Notes'' have no links. When the civic body went online during the former Commissioner, K. Jairaj's tenure, the authorities had claimed that the website, www.bmponline.org, was to provide citizen-friendly services to Bangaloreans at the click of a mouse. "We at BMP aim at making Bangalore the best city in India by 2004," says the message under ``vision". Has the BMP achieved its goal as no fresh missions (not even those included in last year's BMP budget) find mention on the site?
Updates?
The home page claims that the website is updated regularly and that the contents are enhanced often. But though the website mentions that it has been updated as recently on January 15, the material posted relates to last year's developments. The civic body recently announced that all details about its new projects, outsourcing of road maintenance and ``complete blacktopping'' (asphalting) of 1,000 km of roads are now posted on the Net.
Error messages
Though the site mentions the new projects, there are no links and surfers only get error messages. The BMP has a computer section, and a senior official from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has been deputed to the BMP head office as Information Technology Adviser. Furthermore, just before his term ended in November, Mr. Ramesh had announced plans to make the corporators computer-literate. At that time, he said that a computer would be kept in each ward office. This project too is yet to materialise.
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