Praja Brings Mumbai’s Real Issues To Light In Their Latest Report

On the eve of the general elections, the NGO Praja launched its second white paper focusing on the issues faced in the six Mumbai constituencies. The white paper contains details of the problems and issues that citizens of Mumbai face on a day to day basis. The information is collected through Right-to-Information Act and is available on praja.org website. The report draws light on a variety of city related issues...

Citizen-Driven Election Monitoring Platform Allows Citizens to Report Irregularities in the Lok Sabha Elections

Vote Report India, a citizen initiative to bring transparency in the Indian election process, announced today the launch of its collaborative election monitoring platform for the 2009 Indian general elections at votereport.in. As India’s 714 million voters elect their 543 representatives, in the month long general elections to the 15th Lok Sabha, we are sure to see the usual controversies that surround general...

Recession-Elections can help India, ‘Indianness’ grow: Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

India shouldn’t bother about recession because a majority of its population hasn’t even seen the economic prosperity. Espousing these views, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev of Isha Foundation said that these elections mark the right time for a responsible and responsive leadership and administration to make India more powerful. And for Indians to fight the enemies within to unitedly create the much-desired common...

MapmyIndia’s elections website helps voters take informed decisions

MapmyIndia has just launched public service websitehttp://elections.mapmyindia.comto help voters in India make an informed choice on issues that matter to them during the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Combining the power of MapmyIndia’s detailed and highly accurate India maps with exhaustive data on constituencies, like population, literacy ratio, area amongst others and information on parties, candidates and...