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Rent up 16% in Siliguri. Salaries up 2%.

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 4:58 pm · 184 chars · rank #1

19 days' notice for 51 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 4km from every school those kids attend.

Ward 32 in Bhopal: road 'completed' 24 months ago, still gravel

Posted 1 Aug 2026, 8:03 am · 171 chars · rank #2

Everyone in Ward 32 knows exactly which drain it is. It's been surveyed twice. The fix costs less than the surveys did, and less than the hoardings announcing the surveys.

Delivery riders are the most exploited workforce in the country

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 8:42 am · 202 chars · rank #3

10 min delivery = a man running a red light for ₹15. No insurance, no bathroom, no shade, rating held hostage. 'Entrepreneur', they call him. He's an employee without a single right of one. Tip in cash.

190 trees cut in Solapur for a road that saves 6 minutes

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 11:06 am · 216 chars · rank #4

339 trees, forty years of canopy, for a rounding error in commute time. The compensatory plantation is 38km away in a different district on land nobody has budgeted to water. That's an accounting trick, not a forest.

6 hours of load shedding a day in Anantapur and the bill went up 40%

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 9:06 pm · 169 chars · rank #5

The meter changed, the consumption 'discovered' a backlog, and the correction process requires three visits to an office that's open four hours a day. Designed friction.

Account restricted for 17 days, no reason given, no appeal that answers

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 4:58 pm · 168 chars · rank #6

I'm not claiming persecution. I'm claiming the process is unreadable, and that a process nobody outside the room can read is not one anybody outside the room can trust.

Transformer blew 10 days ago. the district collectorate says 'no spare'.

Posted 14 Aug 2026, 4:20 am · 183 chars · rank #7

5 hours a day, every day, and the tariff order says supply quality has improved. Somebody's data and my ceiling fan disagree. Publish the feeder-level outage logs and let's settle it.

Day 11 of no internet in Jalandhar. Nobody has given a reason.

Posted 11 Aug 2026, 1:52 pm · 210 chars · rank #8

The suspension rules require a published order and a review committee. Ask the education department for either and you get a shrug. If the process were being followed, showing us the paperwork would be trivial.

52 vendor stalls cleared at dawn. No notice. 'Beautification.'

Posted 22 Aug 2026, 8:13 pm · 182 chars · rank #9

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 63 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Rent up 13% in Shimoga. Salaries up 5%.

Posted 5 Aug 2026, 8:25 pm · 182 chars · rank #10

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 27 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Govt hospital: 1 doctor, 90 patients, 1 fan

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 11:42 am · 196 chars · rank #11

My father waited from 7am to 3pm to be seen for 90 seconds. The doctor was as exhausted as the patients. This isn't the doctor's failure, it's a system that funds statues faster than stethoscopes.

Held 2 hours, released without charge, nothing on paper

Posted 5 Aug 2026, 6:36 am · 162 chars · rank #12

Cameras that identify who showed up change who shows up. That's the effect whether or not it's the intent, and there is no law worth the name governing any of it.

Inaugurated in Rourkela, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 11 Aug 2026, 1:12 pm · 187 chars · rank #13

I've filed this with the assistant engineer four times. Each complaint is auto-closed as resolved within 48 hours. Nothing has been resolved. The app exists to generate a resolution rate.

Fare up 15%, same 29-year-old buses

Posted 23 Aug 2026, 1:55 am · 152 chars · rank #14

If the fare tracks costs, the service should track the fare. Mine has no working display, no announcement system and a door that's more of a suggestion.

Filed an RTI. Got back a page that was 80% blacked out.

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 6:42 am · 230 chars · rank #15

Asked how much was spent on the 'beautification' project. The answer: [REDACTED] to [REDACTED] via [REDACTED]. Transparency you can't read isn't transparency. The RTI Act was our best tool and they're slowly filing its teeth down.

Ward 3 in Udaipur: road 'completed' 22 months ago, still gravel

Posted 6 Aug 2026, 12:33 am · 181 chars · rank #16

I've filed this with the ward officer four times. Each complaint is auto-closed as resolved within 48 hours. Nothing has been resolved. The app exists to generate a resolution rate.

51 buses sanctioned for the route. 6 run.

Posted 17 Aug 2026, 10:28 pm · 152 chars · rank #17

Announced, re-announced, foundation stone laid twice. At some point the announcement becomes the deliverable and everyone quietly agrees to stop asking.

Groundwater down 10 metres in a decade. New approval granted anyway.

Posted 12 Aug 2026, 2:53 pm · 183 chars · rank #18

8 hours of supply in 9 days, and the tanker that fills the gap costs ₹5000 a trip. We are paying twice — once in tax for a service that doesn't arrive, once in cash for one that does.

55 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 5:48 pm · 175 chars · rank #19

Teachers here spend more days on non-teaching duty — surveys, elections, data entry — than they'd need to actually close the syllabus. That's a policy choice, made repeatedly.

417 trees cut in Bhagalpur for a road that saves 2 minutes

Posted 2 Aug 2026, 4:40 am · 145 chars · rank #20

The data is public, hourly and free. There is no ignorance defence left. There is only a decision not to act on numbers everyone can already see.

Made my ward councillor answer ONE question in public and it worked

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 1:42 pm · 212 chars · rank #21

Cornered him at the local meeting, camera rolling, asked plainly where the drain money went. He mumbled but he answered, and the drain got cleaned within a week. Sunlight works. Do it locally. Start small. Start.

Transformer blew 5 days ago. the PWD office says 'no spare'.

Posted 11 Aug 2026, 11:58 pm · 169 chars · rank #22

The meter changed, the consumption 'discovered' a backlog, and the correction process requires three visits to an office that's open four hours a day. Designed friction.

Next hearing scheduled 20 months out. The wall is already built.

Posted 22 Aug 2026, 9:13 am · 155 chars · rank #23

By the time it's heard it'll be a fait accompli and everyone in the room knows it. Delay isn't a failure of the process here, it's functioning as a ruling.

Government school here: 454 students, 2 teachers

Posted 3 Aug 2026, 9:38 am · 141 chars · rank #24

The RTE norms specify a ratio. We're not close. Nobody is pretending we're close. There is simply no consequence attached to not being close.

Exam postponed for the second time. That's 29 months of my life.

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 10:27 pm · 169 chars · rank #25

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹18000 a month, 43 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

They shut the internet in Udaipur and called it 'precautionary'

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 9:39 pm · 193 chars · rank #26

Ambulances here run on phone calls. For 7 days the only reliable way to reach one has been to physically go and find one. Somebody signed off on that tradeoff without telling us what it bought.

Free scheme, ₹12000 bill. Somebody explain.

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 2:47 pm · 151 chars · rank #27

So everyone in three villages either waits until morning or borrows a vehicle and gambles. This is not a remote area. It's ninety minutes from a metro.

89 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 8 filled.

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 9:02 am · 151 chars · rank #28

So everyone in three villages either waits until morning or borrows a vehicle and gambles. This is not a remote area. It's ninety minutes from a metro.

Last bus at 6pm in a city that works till midnight

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 11:57 pm · 152 chars · rank #29

If the fare tracks costs, the service should track the fare. Mine has no working display, no announcement system and a door that's more of a suggestion.

Fare up 35%, same 17-year-old buses

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 5:58 pm · 152 chars · rank #30

If the fare tracks costs, the service should track the fare. Mine has no working display, no announcement system and a door that's more of a suggestion.

₹40 for a single tomato and they say inflation is 'under control'

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 9:42 pm · 181 chars · rank #31

Under control for whom? My grocery bill doubled, my salary didn't. The chart on TV goes down, the number at the sabzi mandi goes up. One of them is lying and it isn't the sabziwala.

Eviction notice giving 13 days to 49 families

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 6:03 am · 185 chars · rank #32

18 days' notice for 61 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 26km from every school those kids attend.

Held 4 hours, released without charge, nothing on paper

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 11:09 pm · 155 chars · rank #33

By the time it's heard it'll be a fait accompli and everyone in the room knows it. Delay isn't a failure of the process here, it's functioning as a ruling.

Fare up 43%, same 9-year-old buses

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 9:57 am · 152 chars · rank #34

If the fare tracks costs, the service should track the fare. Mine has no working display, no announcement system and a door that's more of a suggestion.

Water tanker mafia is a real thing and everyone pretends it isn't

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 11:42 pm · 218 chars · rank #35

Municipal supply comes 20 mins every third day. Coincidentally, private tankers are always available at 4x. Coincidentally, they're owned by relatives of you-know-who. The shortage isn't natural. It's a business model.

Detained 14 hours, released with no charge, no apology

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 2:42 pm · 239 chars · rank #36

Picked up 'for questioning', phone taken, no lawyer, no FIR, nothing. Then just… let go at night like it never happened. No charge means I did nothing. So why the 14 hours? Document everything, know your rights, tell someone where you are.

417 applications. 10 replies. One of them wanted money.

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 5:33 pm · 145 chars · rank #37

Publish the calendar. Honour the calendar. If it slips, publish why and who decided. That's the entire ask and it has been ignored for 24 months.

Shutdown in Solapur: 450 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 6:17 pm · 210 chars · rank #38

The suspension rules require a published order and a review committee. Ask the education department for either and you get a shrug. If the process were being followed, showing us the paperwork would be trivial.

Eviction notice giving 18 days to 85 families

Posted 28 Jul 2026, 8:48 pm · 182 chars · rank #39

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 64 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

249 trees cut in Varanasi for a road that saves 6 minutes

Posted 5 Aug 2026, 6:43 am · 145 chars · rank #40

The data is public, hourly and free. There is no ignorance defence left. There is only a decision not to act on numbers everyone can already see.

50 buses sanctioned for the route. 9 run.

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 2:08 am · 152 chars · rank #41

Announced, re-announced, foundation stone laid twice. At some point the announcement becomes the deliverable and everyone quietly agrees to stop asking.

Exam postponed for the fourth time. That's 26 months of my life.

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 9:01 pm · 175 chars · rank #42

Every one of us re-studies the same syllabus while the process resets. The cost of these delays is measured in other people's twenties and it never appears in any budget line.

73 buses sanctioned for the route. 7 run.

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 4:47 am · 179 chars · rank #43

82 sanctioned, 6 actually running, and the shortfall is filled by private operators charging triple at exactly the hours women most need a safe ride. That gap is a policy outcome.

The pothole on my street now has its own ecosystem

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 6:42 pm · 206 chars · rank #44

Reported it 5 times on the app. Got 5 'resolved' notifications. The pothole is still there, thriving, raising a family. Meanwhile a flyover nobody asked for is 'ahead of schedule'. Fix the road we drive on.

Government school here: 294 students, 2 teachers

Posted 2 Aug 2026, 12:22 pm · 175 chars · rank #45

Teachers here spend more days on non-teaching duty — surveys, elections, data entry — than they'd need to actually close the syllabus. That's a policy choice, made repeatedly.

Fee hike of 22% and the same 11-year-old lab

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 12:02 am · 175 chars · rank #46

Teachers here spend more days on non-teaching duty — surveys, elections, data entry — than they'd need to actually close the syllabus. That's a policy choice, made repeatedly.

The PIO post has been vacant for 27 months. Convenient.

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 10:06 pm · 158 chars · rank #47

Notice up, bids in, award out, all inside 18 days. Either this was the most efficient procurement in the state's history or the shortlist predated the notice.

Government school here: 137 students, 8 teachers

Posted 21 Aug 2026, 10:12 pm · 141 chars · rank #48

The RTE norms specify a ratio. We're not close. Nobody is pretending we're close. There is simply no consequence attached to not being close.

65 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 22 Aug 2026, 5:52 pm · 166 chars · rank #49

391 kids, 2 teachers, one of whom handles maths, science and English because there is nobody else. Then the learning outcome survey comes out and everyone is shocked.

Shutdown in Nanded: 167 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 8:14 am · 194 chars · rank #50

Ambulances here run on phone calls. For 15 days the only reliable way to reach one has been to physically go and find one. Somebody signed off on that tradeoff without telling us what it bought.

Pension delayed 5 months. 'Server issue.'

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 1:42 am · 208 chars · rank #51

My grandfather worked 38 years for the state. Now the state can't find ₹9000 a month for him because of a 'server issue' that's lasted since March. The server works fine when they want to collect. Funny that.

Rent up 45% in Madurai. Salaries up 8%.

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 7:14 am · 164 chars · rank #52

A city that erases its poor to look presentable for visitors has its priorities exactly backwards, and it will still be unlivable afterwards — just less visibly so.

Shutdown in Coimbatore: 311 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 5 Aug 2026, 4:59 pm · 207 chars · rank #53

The suspension rules require a published order and a review committee. Ask the electricity board for either and you get a shrug. If the process were being followed, showing us the paperwork would be trivial.

They shut the internet in Hubballi and called it 'precautionary'

Posted 1 Aug 2026, 4:56 pm · 175 chars · rank #54

35 shopkeepers on our street take payment only by UPI. For 15 days that has meant nothing. Nobody will ever be invoiced for that loss and nobody has been told why it happened.

Banning VPNs won't make you popular, it'll make you obvious

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 10:42 am · 183 chars · rank #55

Every govt that bans VPNs is telling its own people 'we don't trust you to read things we didn't approve'. Guess what, we'll route around it. The internet treats censorship as damage.

Waited 8 hours in a district hospital corridor last night

Posted 29 Jul 2026, 6:52 pm · 177 chars · rank #56

The scheme is real, the empanelment is real, and the bill was still ₹2400 in 'consumables'. Either fund the reimbursement properly or stop putting the scheme's name on the gate.

Rent up 34% in Durgapur. Salaries up 6%.

Posted 4 Aug 2026, 2:56 pm · 182 chars · rank #57

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 21 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

14 months for a first appeal that has a 30-day timeline

Posted 14 Aug 2026, 9:30 am · 184 chars · rank #58

Statutory timeline is 30 days. Actual: 5 months and counting. There's a penalty provision for this. It is essentially never applied, which is why the timeline is essentially never met.

Section 144 has become a copy-paste button

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 4:42 pm · 207 chars · rank #59

Four or more people can't gather — but the same officials will pack a rally the next day. The law is supposed to be for emergencies, not for switching off inconvenient citizens whenever they're inconvenient.

Count the VVPAT slips. All of them. What's the problem?

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 10:42 pm · 217 chars · rank #60

Not asking to scrap anything. Just count the paper trail fully and publicly. If the machines and the slips match, great, we all sleep better. Transparency should be the easiest thing to say yes to. Why the reluctance?

Government school here: 473 students, 3 teachers

Posted 14 Aug 2026, 7:24 pm · 141 chars · rank #61

The RTE norms specify a ratio. We're not close. Nobody is pretending we're close. There is simply no consequence attached to not being close.

The regional daily broke this 19 days before the national channels

Posted 28 Jul 2026, 10:24 am · 147 chars · rank #62

7 reporters gone, one anchor's rig upgraded. Shouting is cheap and filing RTIs is expensive. That's the whole reason nobody breaks stories anymore.

Compensatory plantation is 5km away on land nobody will water

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 11:06 pm · 145 chars · rank #63

The data is public, hourly and free. There is no ignorance defence left. There is only a decision not to act on numbers everyone can already see.

The river caught fire. An actual river. On fire.

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 3:42 pm · 196 chars · rank #64

Chemical foam thick enough to walk on and now it's flammable. Every year a new committee, a new deadline, a new photo of someone in a boat pointing at the water. The fish already voted. They left.

Account restricted for 10 days, no reason given, no appeal that answers

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 5:26 am · 204 chars · rank #65

The notice cites a section, no facts, no complainant, no explanation of which line was the problem. There's an appeal form. It routes to the same team that sent the notice. This is a process in name only.

Eviction notice giving 5 days to 25 families

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 10:35 am · 185 chars · rank #66

15 days' notice for 71 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 27km from every school those kids attend.

77 buses sanctioned for the route. 5 run.

Posted 3 Aug 2026, 6:04 pm · 152 chars · rank #67

If the fare tracks costs, the service should track the fare. Mine has no working display, no announcement system and a door that's more of a suggestion.

The regional daily broke this 21 days before the national channels

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 11:03 pm · 172 chars · rank #68

Nobody completed a sentence in 74 minutes. The format isn't broken — it works perfectly. It produces heat, sells ads and settles nothing. Mute it and read the actual order.

434 trees cut in Guwahati for a road that saves 6 minutes

Posted 6 Aug 2026, 9:48 am · 145 chars · rank #69

The data is public, hourly and free. There is no ignorance defence left. There is only a decision not to act on numbers everyone can already see.

Eviction notice giving 8 days to 31 families

Posted 14 Aug 2026, 12:20 pm · 185 chars · rank #70

14 days' notice for 62 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 35km from every school those kids attend.

Fare up 20%, same 6-year-old buses

Posted 21 Aug 2026, 11:29 am · 152 chars · rank #71

Announced, re-announced, foundation stone laid twice. At some point the announcement becomes the deliverable and everyone quietly agrees to stop asking.

Transformer blew 4 days ago. the water board says 'no spare'.

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 9:06 am · 183 chars · rank #72

6 hours a day, every day, and the tariff order says supply quality has improved. Somebody's data and my ceiling fan disagree. Publish the feeder-level outage logs and let's settle it.

4 hours of load shedding a day in Surat and the bill went up 12%

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 10:33 pm · 169 chars · rank #73

The meter changed, the consumption 'discovered' a backlog, and the correction process requires three visits to an office that's open four hours a day. Designed friction.

25 vendor stalls cleared at dawn. No notice. 'Beautification.'

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 1:09 am · 164 chars · rank #74

A city that erases its poor to look presentable for visitors has its priorities exactly backwards, and it will still be unlivable afterwards — just less visibly so.

Transformer blew 19 days ago. the municipal corporation says 'no spare'.

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 3:32 pm · 177 chars · rank #75

10 days without a transformer in Ward 3. the ward officer says the spare is 'in process'. Meanwhile every shop on the street runs a generator and the air is unbreathable by 8pm.

134 trees cut in Coimbatore for a road that saves 8 minutes

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 1:13 am · 195 chars · rank #76

The impact assessment cites a survey from 25 months ago and a species list that is wrong about this district. It took me an afternoon to find that. It apparently took the committee 8 days to not.

Small independent outlets are doing 90% of the actual journalism

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 6:42 am · 215 chars · rank #77

Two-person YouTube channels breaking stories the big TV won't touch, then getting slapped with notices for it. If you can spare ₹100/month, subscribe to one you trust. That's the cheapest defence of democracy going.

Government school here: 308 students, 7 teachers

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 4:07 pm · 176 chars · rank #78

A 33% hike, the same lab, the same broken projector, and a circular explaining that quality has been enhanced. Show me the spend, line by line, and I'll withdraw the complaint.

My name vanished from the voter roll between two elections

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 7:42 am · 188 chars · rank #79

Voted in 2019 at the same address. Went this year — 'name not found'. Nobody moved, nobody died, the name just… evaporated. How many others? A vote you can't cast is a right on paper only.

The PIO post has been vacant for 28 months. Convenient.

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 12:41 am · 158 chars · rank #80

Notice up, bids in, award out, all inside 10 days. Either this was the most efficient procurement in the state's history or the shortlist predated the notice.

Data's been off 6 days here and the exam portal doesn't care

Posted 20 Aug 2026, 5:38 pm · 225 chars · rank #81

Day 11. Students can't upload assignments, the ration shop's biometric machine is a paperweight, and every UPI-only vendor in the market has gone back to a diary. The order hasn't been published anywhere I can find. #KeepItOn

4 hours of load shedding a day in Hubballi and the bill went up 41%

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 12:16 am · 169 chars · rank #82

The meter changed, the consumption 'discovered' a backlog, and the correction process requires three visits to an office that's open four hours a day. Designed friction.

Potholes counted on my commute this morning: 82

Posted 22 Aug 2026, 4:49 pm · 185 chars · rank #83

Ribbon, garlands, a hoarding with four faces on it, and 26 months later there's a trench where the road should be. The hoarding is in perfect condition. The contractor's number is dead.

Inaugurated in Ajmer, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 11:36 pm · 170 chars · rank #84

Everyone in Ward 3 knows exactly which drain it is. It's been surveyed twice. The fix costs less than the surveys did, and less than the hoardings announcing the surveys.

Government school here: 424 students, 3 teachers

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 3:42 am · 166 chars · rank #85

284 kids, 4 teachers, one of whom handles maths, science and English because there is nobody else. Then the learning outcome survey comes out and everyone is shocked.

42 vendor stalls cleared at dawn. No notice. 'Beautification.'

Posted 1 Aug 2026, 1:09 pm · 164 chars · rank #86

A city that erases its poor to look presentable for visitors has its priorities exactly backwards, and it will still be unlivable afterwards — just less visibly so.

Varanasi is dark again and the order still isn't public

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 9:17 am · 210 chars · rank #87

The suspension rules require a published order and a review committee. Ask the transport department for either and you get a shrug. If the process were being followed, showing us the paperwork would be trivial.

86 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 9 filled.

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 3:23 am · 151 chars · rank #88

So everyone in three villages either waits until morning or borrows a vehicle and gambles. This is not a remote area. It's ninety minutes from a metro.

8 hours of load shedding a day in Nanded and the bill went up 37%

Posted 14 Jul 2026, 11:37 am · 169 chars · rank #89

The meter changed, the consumption 'discovered' a backlog, and the correction process requires three visits to an office that's open four hours a day. Designed friction.

Ward 11 has had water for 2 hours in 4 days

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 1:34 am · 184 chars · rank #90

9 hours of supply in 9 days, and the tanker that fills the gap costs ₹12000 a trip. We are paying twice — once in tax for a service that doesn't arrive, once in cash for one that does.

Transformer blew 15 days ago. the health department says 'no spare'.

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 2:13 am · 183 chars · rank #91

7 hours a day, every day, and the tariff order says supply quality has improved. Somebody's data and my ceiling fan disagree. Publish the feeder-level outage logs and let's settle it.

MSP is a promise that arrives after the crop is already sold at a loss

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 7:42 pm · 217 chars · rank #92

By the time the 'support price' is announced, the small farmer already sold to the trader at whatever he was offered, because he can't afford to wait. Support that comes too late to use isn't support. It's a headline.

Clearance granted in 3 days. Objections filed in that window: 5.

Posted 6 Aug 2026, 7:55 am · 147 chars · rank #93

Tiles, benches, a selfie point, and a shoreline that has crept in about forty feet. Beautification is now the polite word for filling something in.

Fare up 18%, same 10-year-old buses

Posted 29 Jul 2026, 2:26 am · 152 chars · rank #94

Announced, re-announced, foundation stone laid twice. At some point the announcement becomes the deliverable and everyone quietly agrees to stop asking.

Fare up 28%, same 12-year-old buses

Posted 4 Aug 2026, 7:22 pm · 152 chars · rank #95

Announced, re-announced, foundation stone laid twice. At some point the announcement becomes the deliverable and everyone quietly agrees to stop asking.

Groundwater down 3 metres in a decade. New approval granted anyway.

Posted 5 Aug 2026, 7:01 am · 161 chars · rank #96

The state's own report says the table has dropped 7 metres. The clearance for the new project cites that same report. Somebody read the number and signed anyway.

Rent up 39% in Thrissur. Salaries up 8%.

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 3:18 pm · 164 chars · rank #97

A city that erases its poor to look presentable for visitors has its priorities exactly backwards, and it will still be unlivable afterwards — just less visibly so.

Next hearing scheduled 27 months out. The wall is already built.

Posted 20 Aug 2026, 4:55 pm · 167 chars · rank #98

Kept sending us between two stations while the evidence walked away. A Zero FIR exists precisely for this. Ask for it by name, in those words, and stay standing there.

Day 21 of no internet in Solapur. Nobody has given a reason.

Posted 22 Aug 2026, 12:48 pm · 174 chars · rank #99

71 shopkeepers on our street take payment only by UPI. For 7 days that has meant nothing. Nobody will ever be invoiced for that loss and nobody has been told why it happened.

The regional daily broke this 16 days before the national channels

Posted 2 Aug 2026, 11:13 pm · 178 chars · rank #100

The 15-second clip is engineered to travel. The four-page order it's about is boring, boring, boring, and then devastating. Post the page number instead. Slower, and it holds up.

Exam postponed for the fourth time. That's 28 months of my life.

Posted 3 Aug 2026, 8:29 pm · 169 chars · rank #101

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹18000 a month, 56 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

Clearance granted in 8 days. Objections filed in that window: 2.

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 8:57 pm · 145 chars · rank #102

The data is public, hourly and free. There is no ignorance defence left. There is only a decision not to act on numbers everyone can already see.

Tanker dependence in Durgapur is just the water board outsourcing its job

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 8:26 pm · 185 chars · rank #103

4 hours of supply in 10 days, and the tanker that fills the gap costs ₹24000 a trip. We are paying twice — once in tax for a service that doesn't arrive, once in cash for one that does.

Cleared the prelims 25 months ago. Still waiting on a mains date.

Posted 14 Jul 2026, 11:41 am · 175 chars · rank #104

Every one of us re-studies the same syllabus while the process resets. The cost of these delays is measured in other people's twenties and it never appears in any budget line.

They locked the campus gate so we couldn't hold a meeting

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 12:42 pm · 189 chars · rank #105

A student meeting. About canteen prices. And the admin's response was to padlock the union room and call it 'renovation'. You can't renovate a democracy shut. See you outside the gate at 5.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 4pm. Nearest hospital is 40km.

Posted 17 Jul 2026, 6:09 am · 177 chars · rank #106

The scheme is real, the empanelment is real, and the bill was still ₹5000 in 'consumables'. Either fund the reimbursement properly or stop putting the scheme's name on the gate.

Same junction floods every year. the district collectorate has surveyed it twice.

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 6:12 pm · 170 chars · rank #107

Everyone in Ward 9 knows exactly which drain it is. It's been surveyed twice. The fix costs less than the surveys did, and less than the hoardings announcing the surveys.

Cleared the prelims 21 months ago. Still waiting on a mains date.

Posted 5 Aug 2026, 10:08 am · 215 chars · rank #108

161 applications, 14 replies, one outright scam that wanted ₹24000 for 'onboarding'. I'm posting the raw count because everyone I know is going through this quietly and concluding it's a personal failure. It is not.

Fast-track courts that take 6 years are just courts with a nicer name

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 1:42 pm · 186 chars · rank #109

The case was 'fast-tracked' in 2020. It's 2026. Justice delayed this long isn't justice, it's a slow no. Fund the courts, appoint the judges, or stop pretending the label means anything.

Inaugurated in Siliguri, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 22 Jul 2026, 2:21 pm · 185 chars · rank #110

Ribbon, garlands, a hoarding with four faces on it, and 18 months later there's a trench where the road should be. The hoarding is in perfect condition. The contractor's number is dead.

Rent up 48% in Kozhikode. Salaries up 6%.

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 8:41 am · 164 chars · rank #111

A city that erases its poor to look presentable for visitors has its priorities exactly backwards, and it will still be unlivable afterwards — just less visibly so.

Fee hike of 21% and the same 22-year-old lab

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 9:44 am · 175 chars · rank #112

Teachers here spend more days on non-teaching duty — surveys, elections, data entry — than they'd need to actually close the syllabus. That's a policy choice, made repeatedly.

Transformer blew 11 days ago. the electricity board says 'no spare'.

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 10:01 am · 169 chars · rank #113

The meter changed, the consumption 'discovered' a backlog, and the correction process requires three visits to an office that's open four hours a day. Designed friction.

Free scheme, ₹8000 bill. Somebody explain.

Posted 14 Aug 2026, 9:44 pm · 177 chars · rank #114

The scheme is real, the empanelment is real, and the bill was still ₹2400 in 'consumables'. Either fund the reimbursement properly or stop putting the scheme's name on the gate.

Transformer blew 4 days ago. the health department says 'no spare'.

Posted 21 Aug 2026, 7:28 pm · 169 chars · rank #115

The meter changed, the consumption 'discovered' a backlog, and the correction process requires three visits to an office that's open four hours a day. Designed friction.

Ambulance fleet on paper: 16. Ambulances that start: 2.

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 2:40 am · 135 chars · rank #116

85 sanctioned, 3 filled, and then we publish health outcome reports and act puzzled. Fund the posts or stop pretending the posts exist.

Fare up 25%, same 6-year-old buses

Posted 28 Jun 2026, 5:08 pm · 179 chars · rank #117

89 sanctioned, 3 actually running, and the shortfall is filled by private operators charging triple at exactly the hours women most need a safe ride. That gap is a policy outcome.

Ward 14 has had water for 7 hours in 9 days

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 6:56 am · 175 chars · rank #118

Every summer this becomes an emergency and every monsoon it becomes forgotten. The infrastructure doesn't fail suddenly, it fails on a schedule nobody wants to budget against.

Shutdown in Siliguri: 408 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 10:07 am · 207 chars · rank #119

The suspension rules require a published order and a review committee. Ask the labour department for either and you get a shrug. If the process were being followed, showing us the paperwork would be trivial.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 7pm. Nearest hospital is 25km.

Posted 17 Aug 2026, 12:52 pm · 135 chars · rank #120

74 sanctioned, 9 filled, and then we publish health outcome reports and act puzzled. Fund the posts or stop pretending the posts exist.

Our school's science lab has been 'under renovation' for 20 months

Posted 19 Jul 2026, 5:01 pm · 166 chars · rank #121

241 kids, 2 teachers, one of whom handles maths, science and English because there is nobody else. Then the learning outcome survey comes out and everyone is shocked.

57 vendor stalls cleared at dawn. No notice. 'Beautification.'

Posted 17 Aug 2026, 9:18 am · 185 chars · rank #122

19 days' notice for 76 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 41km from every school those kids attend.

4 takedowns this month and none of them named a complainant

Posted 27 Jun 2026, 6:41 pm · 171 chars · rank #123

Archive your stuff before you post about a removal. Screenshot, archive link, exact timestamp, the notice itself. Half these stories collapse because the receipt vanished.

'Stipend' of ₹3500 for a 60-hour week is not a training role

Posted 26 Jul 2026, 5:25 am · 214 chars · rank #124

451 applications, 13 replies, one outright scam that wanted ₹5000 for 'onboarding'. I'm posting the raw count because everyone I know is going through this quietly and concluding it's a personal failure. It is not.

College hiked fees 35% and added a 'development charge' nobody can explain

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 12:42 pm · 190 chars · rank #125

Asked in the office what 'development' means. Got a shrug. The labs still don't work, the wifi is a rumour, half the faculty posts are empty. Development of WHAT exactly. Show us the ledger.

Rent up 36% in Durgapur. Salaries up 9%.

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 3:19 am · 182 chars · rank #126

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 43 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Rent up 23% in Muzaffarpur. Salaries up 7%.

Posted 12 Jul 2026, 10:19 am · 184 chars · rank #127

20 days' notice for 82 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 3km from every school those kids attend.

Our school's science lab has been 'under renovation' for 29 months

Posted 12 Aug 2026, 10:09 pm · 176 chars · rank #128

A 44% hike, the same lab, the same broken projector, and a circular explaining that quality has been enhanced. Show me the spend, line by line, and I'll withdraw the complaint.

Fee hike of 34% and the same 25-year-old lab

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 3:18 am · 141 chars · rank #129

The RTE norms specify a ratio. We're not close. Nobody is pretending we're close. There is simply no consequence attached to not being close.

63 vendor stalls cleared at dawn. No notice. 'Beautification.'

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 1:36 pm · 185 chars · rank #130

15 days' notice for 57 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 17km from every school those kids attend.

Eviction notice giving 12 days to 89 families

Posted 22 Jul 2026, 7:53 pm · 182 chars · rank #131

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 79 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Exam postponed for the sixth time. That's 22 months of my life.

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 2:56 pm · 169 chars · rank #132

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹12000 a month, 50 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

Eviction notice giving 6 days to 62 families

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 2:23 am · 185 chars · rank #133

13 days' notice for 24 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 14km from every school those kids attend.

82 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 5 filled.

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 10:59 am · 135 chars · rank #134

60 sanctioned, 3 filled, and then we publish health outcome reports and act puzzled. Fund the posts or stop pretending the posts exist.

They shut the internet in Indore and called it 'precautionary'

Posted 19 Jul 2026, 2:46 pm · 224 chars · rank #135

Day 6. Students can't upload assignments, the ration shop's biometric machine is a paperweight, and every UPI-only vendor in the market has gone back to a diary. The order hasn't been published anywhere I can find. #KeepItOn

Ward 38 in Guwahati: road 'completed' 6 months ago, still gravel

Posted 1 Aug 2026, 3:15 pm · 187 chars · rank #136

I've filed this with the tehsildar's office four times. Each complaint is auto-closed as resolved within 48 hours. Nothing has been resolved. The app exists to generate a resolution rate.

Shutdown in Bhopal: 232 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 5:00 pm · 225 chars · rank #137

Day 18. Students can't upload assignments, the ration shop's biometric machine is a paperweight, and every UPI-only vendor in the market has gone back to a diary. The order hasn't been published anywhere I can find. #KeepItOn

24 buses sanctioned for the route. 8 run.

Posted 17 Jul 2026, 4:09 am · 179 chars · rank #138

58 sanctioned, 2 actually running, and the shortfall is filled by private operators charging triple at exactly the hours women most need a safe ride. That gap is a policy outcome.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 8pm. Nearest hospital is 41km.

Posted 15 Jul 2026, 11:30 am · 135 chars · rank #139

24 sanctioned, 2 filled, and then we publish health outcome reports and act puzzled. Fund the posts or stop pretending the posts exist.

Next hearing scheduled 30 months out. The wall is already built.

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 12:15 am · 168 chars · rank #140

Phones get taken, phones die, phones lock. Ink doesn't. Carry ID, tell one person outside where you are, don't sign anything you haven't read. Not paranoia — logistics.

Posting from a district that had no signal for a week. Just testing that this loads.

Posted 25 Aug 2026, 4:04 am · 144 chars · rank #141

It loads. Slowly, on 2G, but it loads. That matters more than any feature on the roadmap. Keep it light enough for the places that need it most.

87 vendor stalls cleared at dawn. No notice. 'Beautification.'

Posted 24 Jul 2026, 3:04 pm · 164 chars · rank #142

A city that erases its poor to look presentable for visitors has its priorities exactly backwards, and it will still be unlivable afterwards — just less visibly so.

Rent up 45% in Bhagalpur. Salaries up 5%.

Posted 10 Jul 2026, 2:05 pm · 164 chars · rank #143

A city that erases its poor to look presentable for visitors has its priorities exactly backwards, and it will still be unlivable afterwards — just less visibly so.

5 hours of load shedding a day in Anantapur and the bill went up 40%

Posted 26 Jul 2026, 6:26 am · 178 chars · rank #144

11 days without a transformer in Ward 27. the ward officer says the spare is 'in process'. Meanwhile every shop on the street runs a generator and the air is unbreathable by 8pm.

Tender awarded 17 days after the notice went up

Posted 10 Jul 2026, 5:45 am · 198 chars · rank #145

Skip the press release entirely. Go to the demand-for-grants, compare budget estimate to revised estimate to actuals across three years. Announcements are theatre. The revised estimate is the truth.

80 vendor stalls cleared at dawn. No notice. 'Beautification.'

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 11:38 am · 164 chars · rank #146

A city that erases its poor to look presentable for visitors has its priorities exactly backwards, and it will still be unlivable afterwards — just less visibly so.

6 takedowns this month and none of them named a complainant

Posted 20 Aug 2026, 5:56 am · 204 chars · rank #147

The notice cites a section, no facts, no complainant, no explanation of which line was the problem. There's an appeal form. It routes to the same team that sent the notice. This is a process in name only.

Eviction notice giving 14 days to 26 families

Posted 21 Aug 2026, 7:30 pm · 185 chars · rank #148

20 days' notice for 72 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 28km from every school those kids attend.

Day 15 of no internet in Nashik. Nobody has given a reason.

Posted 28 Jul 2026, 1:08 am · 184 chars · rank #149

My mother's pension verification needs an OTP. The OTP needs a network. The network needs somebody in an office to decide we're allowed one. That's the whole system in three sentences.

Government school here: 434 students, 9 teachers

Posted 20 Aug 2026, 9:31 pm · 141 chars · rank #150

The RTE norms specify a ratio. We're not close. Nobody is pretending we're close. There is simply no consequence attached to not being close.

Coimbatore is dark again and the order still isn't public

Posted 17 Aug 2026, 11:21 am · 210 chars · rank #151

The suspension rules require a published order and a review committee. Ask the education department for either and you get a shrug. If the process were being followed, showing us the paperwork would be trivial.

Traceability = surveillance with better PR

Posted 19 Jul 2026, 11:42 pm · 212 chars · rank #152

They keep saying 'we just want to trace the first originator, nothing to hide nothing to fear'. If it's so harmless, put the babus' chats on trace first. Privacy isn't a criminal's luxury, it's a citizen's right.

The hoarding announcing the road has outlasted the road

Posted 22 Aug 2026, 8:55 am · 185 chars · rank #153

Ribbon, garlands, a hoarding with four faces on it, and 16 months later there's a trench where the road should be. The hoarding is in perfect condition. The contractor's number is dead.

₹1200 electricity bill for a month I was out of town

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 8:42 am · 225 chars · rank #154

Empty flat. Meter apparently ran a marathon. Went to complain, waited 3 hours, told to 'file online'. Filed online, got a ticket number, ticket number leads nowhere. The system isn't broken, it's designed to make you give up.

Clearance granted in 20 days. Objections filed in that window: 7.

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 7:49 am · 145 chars · rank #155

The data is public, hourly and free. There is no ignorance defence left. There is only a decision not to act on numbers everyone can already see.

9 hours of load shedding a day in Ludhiana and the bill went up 17%

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 12:36 pm · 169 chars · rank #156

The meter changed, the consumption 'discovered' a backlog, and the correction process requires three visits to an office that's open four hours a day. Designed friction.

Transformer blew 12 days ago. the water board says 'no spare'.

Posted 1 Aug 2026, 9:46 pm · 169 chars · rank #157

The meter changed, the consumption 'discovered' a backlog, and the correction process requires three visits to an office that's open four hours a day. Designed friction.

Rent up 33% in Thrissur. Salaries up 9%.

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 7:24 am · 164 chars · rank #158

A city that erases its poor to look presentable for visitors has its priorities exactly backwards, and it will still be unlivable afterwards — just less visibly so.

Government school here: 361 students, 2 teachers

Posted 6 Jul 2026, 6:23 pm · 141 chars · rank #159

The RTE norms specify a ratio. We're not close. Nobody is pretending we're close. There is simply no consequence attached to not being close.

The vacancy list said 45. The joining list said 3.

Posted 28 Jul 2026, 6:39 am · 169 chars · rank #160

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹18000 a month, 53 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

The notice cites a section number and nothing else

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 2:58 am · 167 chars · rank #161

If takedown requests were published in a register — the section, the requesting body, the date — none of this would need a thread. The refusal to publish is the story.

Aligarh is dark again and the order still isn't public

Posted 2 Aug 2026, 1:44 am · 193 chars · rank #162

Ambulances here run on phone calls. For 6 days the only reliable way to reach one has been to physically go and find one. Somebody signed off on that tradeoff without telling us what it bought.

The algorithm isn't censoring you, it's just bored of you

Posted 23 Aug 2026, 3:04 pm · 206 chars · rank #163

Half the 'shadowban' posts I see are engagement dropping because the post is dull. Some suppression is real and worth documenting — but crying wolf on every flat post makes the real cases easier to dismiss.

201 applications. 12 replies. One of them wanted money.

Posted 1 Jul 2026, 3:12 pm · 169 chars · rank #164

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹18000 a month, 68 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

'Stipend' of ₹8000 for a 71-hour week is not a training role

Posted 10 Jul 2026, 8:58 am · 144 chars · rank #165

Publish the calendar. Honour the calendar. If it slips, publish why and who decided. That's the entire ask and it has been ignored for 4 months.

Watching from abroad and I've never felt more useless or more proud

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 9:42 am · 196 chars · rank #166

NRI here. Can't be on the street with you so I do what I can — send this to friends, fund a reporter, argue with uncles. Distance doesn't cancel citizenship. Tell me what actually helps from here.

5 hours of load shedding a day in Kolhapur and the bill went up 28%

Posted 15 Jul 2026, 6:49 pm · 183 chars · rank #167

21 days without a transformer in Ward 5. the assistant engineer says the spare is 'in process'. Meanwhile every shop on the street runs a generator and the air is unbreathable by 8pm.

Fee hike of 16% and the same 7-year-old lab

Posted 6 Aug 2026, 11:34 pm · 175 chars · rank #168

Teachers here spend more days on non-teaching duty — surveys, elections, data entry — than they'd need to actually close the syllabus. That's a policy choice, made repeatedly.

Fee hike of 17% and the same 15-year-old lab

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 5:00 pm · 175 chars · rank #169

Teachers here spend more days on non-teaching duty — surveys, elections, data entry — than they'd need to actually close the syllabus. That's a policy choice, made repeatedly.

Clearance granted in 8 days. Objections filed in that window: 8.

Posted 17 Aug 2026, 4:21 am · 196 chars · rank #170

The impact assessment cites a survey from 25 months ago and a species list that is wrong about this district. It took me an afternoon to find that. It apparently took the committee 12 days to not.

Fee hike of 46% and the same 17-year-old lab

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 11:13 pm · 175 chars · rank #171

Teachers here spend more days on non-teaching duty — surveys, elections, data entry — than they'd need to actually close the syllabus. That's a policy choice, made repeatedly.

Tender awarded 18 days after the notice went up

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 11:54 am · 189 chars · rank #172

They have the data. It's in a spreadsheet. They just don't have it in a format that involves telling me. First appeal filed — I'll post the reply here whatever it says, including if I lose.

9 takedowns this month and none of them named a complainant

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 4:03 am · 168 chars · rank #173

I'm not claiming persecution. I'm claiming the process is unreadable, and that a process nobody outside the room can read is not one anybody outside the room can trust.

Road dug up 4 times in 10 months by 3 different departments

Posted 20 Aug 2026, 9:58 am · 195 chars · rank #174

Ask the electricity board for the completion certificate and the measurement book. They exist. Getting them is the fight, and the fight is the point — nobody digs a trench they'll be asked about.

Account restricted for 12 days, no reason given, no appeal that answers

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 6:16 pm · 166 chars · rank #175

It was up for 22 months, then removed inside an hour of a request nobody will show me. Whatever the merits, a takedown you can't read is a takedown you can't contest.

Fare up 13%, same 25-year-old buses

Posted 21 Aug 2026, 4:49 pm · 179 chars · rank #176

88 sanctioned, 6 actually running, and the shortfall is filled by private operators charging triple at exactly the hours women most need a safe ride. That gap is a policy outcome.

Shutdown in Shimoga: 401 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 12 Aug 2026, 7:16 pm · 184 chars · rank #177

My mother's pension verification needs an OTP. The OTP needs a network. The network needs somebody in an office to decide we're allowed one. That's the whole system in three sentences.

GST for a small shop is a full-time job I'm not paid for

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 7:42 am · 212 chars · rank #178

Three returns, four rates, portal down half the time, one wrong digit = notice. I run a 200 sq ft shop, not a finance department. 'Ease of doing business' is a slogan written by people who've never done business.

Rent up 34% in Ludhiana. Salaries up 6%.

Posted 10 Jul 2026, 4:56 pm · 164 chars · rank #179

A city that erases its poor to look presentable for visitors has its priorities exactly backwards, and it will still be unlivable afterwards — just less visibly so.

Fare up 32%, same 10-year-old buses

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 10:29 pm · 152 chars · rank #180

Announced, re-announced, foundation stone laid twice. At some point the announcement becomes the deliverable and everyone quietly agrees to stop asking.

Day 17 of no internet in Surat. Nobody has given a reason.

Posted 8 Jul 2026, 9:46 am · 193 chars · rank #181

Ambulances here run on phone calls. For 7 days the only reliable way to reach one has been to physically go and find one. Somebody signed off on that tradeoff without telling us what it bought.

Eviction notice giving 11 days to 84 families

Posted 5 Jul 2026, 10:03 pm · 185 chars · rank #182

17 days' notice for 44 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 18km from every school those kids attend.

Fee hike of 37% and the same 19-year-old lab

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 11:35 am · 175 chars · rank #183

Teachers here spend more days on non-teaching duty — surveys, elections, data entry — than they'd need to actually close the syllabus. That's a policy choice, made repeatedly.

'Stipend' of ₹5000 for a 61-hour week is not a training role

Posted 21 Aug 2026, 11:34 pm · 215 chars · rank #184

454 applications, 12 replies, one outright scam that wanted ₹24000 for 'onboarding'. I'm posting the raw count because everyone I know is going through this quietly and concluding it's a personal failure. It is not.

Shutdown in Warangal: 259 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 1 Aug 2026, 12:30 am · 175 chars · rank #185

21 shopkeepers on our street take payment only by UPI. For 12 days that has meant nothing. Nobody will ever be invoiced for that loss and nobody has been told why it happened.

Eviction notice giving 16 days to 69 families

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 1:22 pm · 164 chars · rank #186

A city that erases its poor to look presentable for visitors has its priorities exactly backwards, and it will still be unlivable afterwards — just less visibly so.

Tender awarded 9 days after the notice went up

Posted 19 Jul 2026, 2:54 am · 198 chars · rank #187

Skip the press release entirely. Go to the demand-for-grants, compare budget estimate to revised estimate to actuals across three years. Announcements are theatre. The revised estimate is the truth.

Ward 27 in Madurai: road 'completed' 23 months ago, still gravel

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 6:47 pm · 198 chars · rank #188

Ask the transport department for the completion certificate and the measurement book. They exist. Getting them is the fight, and the fight is the point — nobody digs a trench they'll be asked about.

Laid off by a startup that had a foosball table but no runway

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 2:42 pm · 207 chars · rank #189

Whole floor gone in one Slack message. 'Difficult decision', 'grateful for your contribution', the usual. Meanwhile the founders posting from Dubai. If you're hiring in Pune, drop a reply. Rants pay no rent.

Eviction notice giving 16 days to 85 families

Posted 21 Jun 2026, 4:29 am · 164 chars · rank #190

A city that erases its poor to look presentable for visitors has its priorities exactly backwards, and it will still be unlivable afterwards — just less visibly so.

Transformer blew 21 days ago. the health department says 'no spare'.

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 3:00 pm · 183 chars · rank #191

19 days without a transformer in Ward 5. the assistant engineer says the spare is 'in process'. Meanwhile every shop on the street runs a generator and the air is unbreathable by 8pm.

Tanker dependence in Ranchi is just the water board outsourcing its job

Posted 18 Jul 2026, 9:16 pm · 161 chars · rank #192

The state's own report says the table has dropped 7 metres. The clearance for the new project cites that same report. Somebody read the number and signed anyway.

Ward 38 has had water for 4 hours in 10 days

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 11:38 pm · 175 chars · rank #193

Every summer this becomes an emergency and every monsoon it becomes forgotten. The infrastructure doesn't fail suddenly, it fails on a schedule nobody wants to budget against.

54 buses sanctioned for the route. 8 run.

Posted 19 Jul 2026, 2:23 am · 179 chars · rank #194

48 sanctioned, 3 actually running, and the shortfall is filled by private operators charging triple at exactly the hours women most need a safe ride. That gap is a policy outcome.

Ward 9 has had water for 4 hours in 3 days

Posted 17 Aug 2026, 6:09 am · 162 chars · rank #195

The state's own report says the table has dropped 10 metres. The clearance for the new project cites that same report. Somebody read the number and signed anyway.

Fee hike of 36% and the same 25-year-old lab

Posted 29 Jul 2026, 11:59 pm · 176 chars · rank #196

A 38% hike, the same lab, the same broken projector, and a circular explaining that quality has been enhanced. Show me the spend, line by line, and I'll withdraw the complaint.

Fare up 47%, same 30-year-old buses

Posted 21 Aug 2026, 10:56 pm · 152 chars · rank #197

Announced, re-announced, foundation stone laid twice. At some point the announcement becomes the deliverable and everyone quietly agrees to stop asking.

Fee hike of 44% and the same 15-year-old lab

Posted 14 Aug 2026, 4:01 pm · 176 chars · rank #198

A 17% hike, the same lab, the same broken projector, and a circular explaining that quality has been enhanced. Show me the spend, line by line, and I'll withdraw the complaint.

Fee hike of 20% and the same 28-year-old lab

Posted 3 Aug 2026, 1:15 am · 141 chars · rank #199

The RTE norms specify a ratio. We're not close. Nobody is pretending we're close. There is simply no consequence attached to not being close.

Rent up 16% in Kochi. Salaries up 2%.

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 3:48 am · 182 chars · rank #200

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 72 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

21 vendor stalls cleared at dawn. No notice. 'Beautification.'

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 6:32 am · 164 chars · rank #201

A city that erases its poor to look presentable for visitors has its priorities exactly backwards, and it will still be unlivable afterwards — just less visibly so.

'Stipend' of ₹8000 for a 57-hour week is not a training role

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 2:45 pm · 175 chars · rank #202

Every one of us re-studies the same syllabus while the process resets. The cost of these delays is measured in other people's twenties and it never appears in any budget line.

One functioning library for 8000 students

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 4:42 am · 196 chars · rank #203

People queue at 6am for a seat. Others study on the stairs. And the new admin block got marble. Priorities are a policy statement, and ours are written in stone — literally, in the wrong building.

28 months for a first appeal that has a 30-day timeline

Posted 23 Aug 2026, 3:55 pm · 185 chars · rank #204

Statutory timeline is 30 days. Actual: 10 months and counting. There's a penalty provision for this. It is essentially never applied, which is why the timeline is essentially never met.

4 hours of load shedding a day in Rourkela and the bill went up 43%

Posted 13 Jul 2026, 3:38 pm · 190 chars · rank #205

5 days without a transformer in Ward 3. the public information officer says the spare is 'in process'. Meanwhile every shop on the street runs a generator and the air is unbreathable by 8pm.

21 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 5 filled.

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 7:40 pm · 151 chars · rank #206

So everyone in three villages either waits until morning or borrows a vehicle and gambles. This is not a remote area. It's ninety minutes from a metro.

Station refused an FIR for 3 hours over 'jurisdiction'

Posted 1 Jul 2026, 9:48 pm · 167 chars · rank #207

Kept sending us between two stations while the evidence walked away. A Zero FIR exists precisely for this. Ask for it by name, in those words, and stay standing there.

Fare up 38%, same 17-year-old buses

Posted 13 Jul 2026, 6:12 am · 152 chars · rank #208

If the fare tracks costs, the service should track the fare. Mine has no working display, no announcement system and a door that's more of a suggestion.

The PIO post has been vacant for 6 months. Convenient.

Posted 1 Aug 2026, 10:02 am · 158 chars · rank #209

Notice up, bids in, award out, all inside 16 days. Either this was the most efficient procurement in the state's history or the shortlist predated the notice.

Indore is dark again and the order still isn't public

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 6:08 pm · 224 chars · rank #210

Day 9. Students can't upload assignments, the ration shop's biometric machine is a paperweight, and every UPI-only vendor in the market has gone back to a diary. The order hasn't been published anywhere I can find. #KeepItOn

413 trees cut in Warangal for a road that saves 3 minutes

Posted 6 Aug 2026, 11:19 am · 195 chars · rank #211

The impact assessment cites a survey from 25 months ago and a species list that is wrong about this district. It took me an afternoon to find that. It apparently took the committee 5 days to not.

Rent up 24% in Vijayawada. Salaries up 7%.

Posted 8 Jul 2026, 4:10 am · 184 chars · rank #212

13 days' notice for 77 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 6km from every school those kids attend.

The vacancy list said 80. The joining list said 2.

Posted 20 Jun 2026, 1:04 pm · 188 chars · rank #213

I'm not asking for a job, I'm asking for a date on a calendar that survives contact with reality. People have aged out of the eligibility window waiting for an exam that keeps evaporating.

Exam postponed for the fifth time. That's 15 months of my life.

Posted 10 Jun 2026, 5:55 am · 169 chars · rank #214

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹18000 a month, 64 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

33 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 4 filled.

Posted 16 Jul 2026, 3:58 am · 135 chars · rank #215

42 sanctioned, 9 filled, and then we publish health outcome reports and act puzzled. Fund the posts or stop pretending the posts exist.

30 buses sanctioned for the route. 7 run.

Posted 4 Aug 2026, 5:09 am · 179 chars · rank #216

68 sanctioned, 5 actually running, and the shortfall is filled by private operators charging triple at exactly the hours women most need a safe ride. That gap is a policy outcome.

Data's been off 20 days here and the exam portal doesn't care

Posted 16 Jul 2026, 9:52 pm · 211 chars · rank #217

The suspension rules require a published order and a review committee. Ask the district collectorate for either and you get a shrug. If the process were being followed, showing us the paperwork would be trivial.

Inaugurated in Nanded, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 11:14 pm · 184 chars · rank #218

Ribbon, garlands, a hoarding with four faces on it, and 6 months later there's a trench where the road should be. The hoarding is in perfect condition. The contractor's number is dead.

Next hearing scheduled 25 months out. The wall is already built.

Posted 16 Jul 2026, 5:14 pm · 167 chars · rank #219

Kept sending us between two stations while the evidence walked away. A Zero FIR exists precisely for this. Ask for it by name, in those words, and stay standing there.

378 trees cut in Indore for a road that saves 9 minutes

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 9:26 am · 145 chars · rank #220

The data is public, hourly and free. There is no ignorance defence left. There is only a decision not to act on numbers everyone can already see.

Compensatory plantation is 26km away on land nobody will water

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 6:01 pm · 147 chars · rank #221

Tiles, benches, a selfie point, and a shoreline that has crept in about forty feet. Beautification is now the polite word for filling something in.

83 buses sanctioned for the route. 9 run.

Posted 2 Aug 2026, 3:29 pm · 152 chars · rank #222

If the fare tracks costs, the service should track the fare. Mine has no working display, no announcement system and a door that's more of a suggestion.

Showed up to the Ward 38 meeting 12 times. It's already different.

Posted 17 Aug 2026, 7:23 am · 142 chars · rank #223

It loads. Slowly, on 2G, but it loads. That matters more than anything on the roadmap — keep it light enough for the places that need it most.

Tender awarded 5 days after the notice went up

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 7:22 pm · 185 chars · rank #224

Statutory timeline is 30 days. Actual: 10 months and counting. There's a penalty provision for this. It is essentially never applied, which is why the timeline is essentially never met.

Next hearing scheduled 8 months out. The wall is already built.

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 5:50 pm · 168 chars · rank #225

Phones get taken, phones die, phones lock. Ink doesn't. Carry ID, tell one person outside where you are, don't sign anything you haven't read. Not paranoia — logistics.

Fare up 15%, same 23-year-old buses

Posted 14 Jul 2026, 8:04 am · 179 chars · rank #226

53 sanctioned, 7 actually running, and the shortfall is filled by private operators charging triple at exactly the hours women most need a safe ride. That gap is a policy outcome.

Government school here: 292 students, 5 teachers

Posted 11 Aug 2026, 8:28 pm · 176 chars · rank #227