Why the scheme? Deccan Herald is organising an interactive session on Sakrama 2007 at Jaraganahalli Govt Primary School playground, Kanakapura Road, near HM, Tambourine Apartments on Sunday at 11 am. Senior officers of the Palike will reply to questions on Sakrama. Property owners can make use of this programme.
Protests gather momentum Sakrama has run into rough weather even before the BBMP has started setting right the anomalies...
Residents oppose Members of various residents associations of many layouts in Bytarayanapura, Ramamurthynagar and Mahadevapura, on Saturday, staged a protest in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue on M G Road, opposing the State Government's Sakrama 2007.
Cong jumps into fray Congress leaders on Saturday took out a protest rally in front of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike head office against the BBMPs regularisation scheme Sakrama...
WHAT THEY FEEL...? Going by BBMP's handbook on Sakrama, the total regularisation fee for one acre of land is close to Rs 54 lakh whereas the compensation given by the government for acquisitions done in Marathahalli area two-three years ago is just Rs 12 lakh per acre..
A couple takes shelter under umbrella as they take part in protest by members from various residents' associations in Bangalore against BBMP 'Sakrama' scheme in front Mahatma Gandhi statue in Bangalore on Saturday.
Was the West Bengal government right in nudging controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen into leaving Kolkata? Should the Centre extend political asylum or Indian citizenship to her as she says she can’t go back to Dhaka?
Deccan Herald had invited its readers to send their opinions. Most readers opine that persuading Taslima Nasreen to leave the state was an extreme move and that granting asylum is humane although extending citizenship to her is debatable. A few others insist that she must now return home to Dhaka as her views have hurt the sentiments of Muslims.
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