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Fee hike of 33% and the same 7-year-old lab

Posted 12 Jul 2026, 8:38 pm · 175 chars · rank #1

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.

Showed up to the Ward 14 meeting 3 times. It's already different.

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 5:01 am · 208 chars · rank #2

Physical letter, one page, one question, polite. Took 8 weeks and the reply was substantive. I'm posting it because everyone assumes this never works, and that assumption does a lot of unpaid labour for them.

Waited 6 hours in a district hospital corridor last night

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 10:46 am · 186 chars · rank #3

Found this out at 2am the hard way. 14 on the register, 2 that actually run. Paper fleets kill people quietly and they never make the news because there's no single moment to photograph.

Fare up 43%, same 25-year-old buses

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 12:54 am · 152 chars · rank #4

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 18 meeting 3 times. It's already different.

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 5:32 am · 208 chars · rank #5

Physical letter, one page, one question, polite. Took 4 weeks and the reply was substantive. I'm posting it because everyone assumes this never works, and that assumption does a lot of unpaid labour for them.

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

Posted 19 Jun 2026, 5:17 pm · 189 chars · rank #6

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.

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

Posted 22 Jul 2026, 2:15 pm · 168 chars · rank #7

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹2400 a month, 59 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

Government school here: 248 students, 2 teachers

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 6:48 am · 176 chars · rank #8

A 12% 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.

Ward 27 has had water for 8 hours in 11 days

Posted 5 Jul 2026, 3:26 am · 175 chars · rank #9

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.

Data's been off 12 days here and the exam portal doesn't care

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 2:48 pm · 224 chars · rank #10

Day 5. 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

Transformer blew 8 days ago. the transport department says 'no spare'.

Posted 5 Aug 2026, 7:00 am · 183 chars · rank #11

4 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.

Road dug up 9 times in 12 months by 4 different departments

Posted 6 Jul 2026, 12:18 pm · 199 chars · rank #12

Ask the district collectorate 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.

The lake got a beautification budget and a smaller lake

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 11:27 am · 216 chars · rank #13

124 trees, forty years of canopy, for a rounding error in commute time. The compensatory plantation is 21km away in a different district on land nobody has budgeted to water. That's an accounting trick, not a forest.

Exam postponed for the sixth time. That's 6 months of my life.

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 6:00 am · 214 chars · rank #14

276 applications, 7 replies, one outright scam that wanted ₹18000 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.

5 hours of load shedding a day in Varanasi and the bill went up 13%

Posted 21 Aug 2026, 12:38 am · 183 chars · rank #15

4 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.

The vacancy list said 85. The joining list said 9.

Posted 9 Jul 2026, 5:44 pm · 145 chars · rank #16

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 17 months.

Compensatory plantation is 28km away on land nobody will water

Posted 14 Aug 2026, 2:49 am · 216 chars · rank #17

364 trees, forty years of canopy, for a rounding error in commute time. The compensatory plantation is 36km away in a different district on land nobody has budgeted to water. That's an accounting trick, not a forest.

Government school here: 388 students, 2 teachers

Posted 1 Aug 2026, 8:35 pm · 141 chars · rank #18

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.

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

Posted 9 Jun 2026, 3:00 pm · 184 chars · rank #19

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.

Ward 38 has had water for 6 hours in 16 days

Posted 7 Jul 2026, 2:44 am · 185 chars · rank #20

7 hours of supply in 15 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.

Fare up 42%, same 7-year-old buses

Posted 19 Jul 2026, 11:40 pm · 152 chars · rank #21

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.

416 applications. 6 replies. One of them wanted money.

Posted 7 Jul 2026, 4:01 am · 145 chars · rank #22

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 25 months.

6 boxes on the debate panel, zero minutes of silence

Posted 15 Jul 2026, 11:25 am · 178 chars · rank #23

The 60-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.

Showed up to the Ward 32 meeting 12 times. It's already different.

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 12:17 pm · 142 chars · rank #24

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.

Fare up 19%, same 7-year-old buses

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 5:50 pm · 179 chars · rank #25

46 sanctioned, 4 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 45 has had water for 7 hours in 6 days

Posted 17 Aug 2026, 6:12 am · 189 chars · rank #26

There's no published schedule. There used to be. When you ask the transport department for one, you're told it 'depends on pressure'. Pressure that apparently has a favourite neighbourhood.

'Stipend' of ₹18000 for a 23-hour week is not a training role

Posted 12 Aug 2026, 4:20 pm · 175 chars · rank #27

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.

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

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 11:05 pm · 189 chars · rank #28

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.

Eviction notice giving 5 days to 73 families

Posted 10 Jun 2026, 4:37 am · 182 chars · rank #29

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 60 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Exam postponed for the third time. That's 12 months of my life.

Posted 5 Aug 2026, 11:32 pm · 169 chars · rank #30

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹18000 a month, 45 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

7 hours of load shedding a day in Kolhapur and the bill went up 42%

Posted 4 Aug 2026, 5:29 am · 169 chars · rank #31

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.

Fee hike of 12% and the same 29-year-old lab

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 5:16 pm · 141 chars · rank #32

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.

Eviction notice giving 3 days to 19 families

Posted 11 Aug 2026, 8:29 am · 164 chars · rank #33

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 44%, same 4-year-old buses

Posted 23 Jul 2026, 4:17 pm · 179 chars · rank #34

87 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.

The PIO post has been vacant for 9 months. Convenient.

Posted 24 Jul 2026, 2:26 pm · 185 chars · rank #35

Statutory timeline is 30 days. Actual: 13 months and counting. There's a penalty provision for this. It is essentially never applied, which is why the timeline is essentially never met.

Showed up to the Ward 45 meeting 12 times. It's already different.

Posted 14 Aug 2026, 3:01 pm · 185 chars · rank #36

First time we were ignored. Third time we got the agenda in advance. Fifth time an officer came prepared. Nobody is scared of a post. Everybody is uncomfortable with regular attendance.

55 buses sanctioned for the route. 7 run.

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 4:00 am · 179 chars · rank #37

70 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 regional daily broke this 9 days before the national channels

Posted 5 Jul 2026, 7:12 pm · 166 chars · rank #38

Ran in a regional paper 3 days before anyone national picked it up, and then without attribution. English-first coverage keeps mistaking itself for the whole country.

Got a takedown notice for a 18-month-old post

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 4:13 pm · 166 chars · rank #39

It was up for 29 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.

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

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 7:37 pm · 185 chars · rank #40

21 days' notice for 45 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 19km from every school those kids attend.

Rent up 44% in Udaipur. Salaries up 5%.

Posted 27 Jun 2026, 5:04 am · 164 chars · rank #41

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.

88 buses sanctioned for the route. 4 run.

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 3:33 am · 152 chars · rank #42

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.

Shutdown in Kolhapur: 216 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 2:18 am · 225 chars · rank #43

Day 13. 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

Inaugurated in Kolhapur, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 2:09 am · 195 chars · rank #44

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.

Fee hike of 17% and the same 11-year-old lab

Posted 22 Jul 2026, 2:03 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.

Rent up 14% in Guwahati. Salaries up 7%.

Posted 6 Jul 2026, 9:53 pm · 182 chars · rank #46

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 40 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Ward 38 has had water for 2 hours in 18 days

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 10:51 am · 161 chars · rank #47

The state's own report says the table has dropped 4 metres. The clearance for the new project cites that same report. Somebody read the number and signed anyway.

Shutdown in Solapur: 447 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 17 Jul 2026, 8:54 am · 207 chars · rank #48

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

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

Posted 24 Jun 2026, 7:28 pm · 175 chars · rank #49

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.

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

Posted 15 Jul 2026, 4:33 pm · 191 chars · rank #50

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

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

Posted 24 Jul 2026, 2:36 am · 175 chars · rank #51

23 shopkeepers on our street take payment only by UPI. For 13 days that has meant nothing. Nobody will ever be invoiced for that loss and nobody has been told why it happened.

Inaugurated in Bilaspur, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 6 Jul 2026, 3:24 am · 169 chars · rank #52

7 times in 15 months: water, then cables, then gas, then water again. Nobody coordinates, everybody re-tars badly, and residents pay for all of it in suspension repairs.

Showed up to the Ward 3 meeting 3 times. It's already different.

Posted 22 Jul 2026, 6:45 pm · 184 chars · rank #53

Before you post about a removal: archive the original, note the timestamp, save the notice. The stories that die are the ones where the receipt vanished and it became he-said-she-said.

Smart meter installed, bill tripled, no explanation

Posted 17 Jul 2026, 9:53 pm · 183 chars · rank #54

12 days without a transformer in Ward 7. the executive engineer says the spare is 'in process'. Meanwhile every shop on the street runs a generator and the air is unbreathable by 8pm.

Rent up 13% in Kozhikode. Salaries up 6%.

Posted 15 Jul 2026, 9:22 am · 164 chars · rank #55

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.

9 hours of load shedding a day in Hubballi and the bill went up 12%

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 8:08 pm · 183 chars · rank #56

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.

90 buses sanctioned for the route. 4 run.

Posted 19 Jun 2026, 5:15 am · 152 chars · rank #57

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

Rent up 19% in Gorakhpur. Salaries up 6%.

Posted 29 Jul 2026, 3:38 am · 164 chars · rank #58

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 26%, same 8-year-old buses

Posted 4 Aug 2026, 5:21 am · 152 chars · rank #59

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 vacancy list said 19. The joining list said 9.

Posted 14 Jul 2026, 8:18 am · 188 chars · rank #60

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.

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

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 10:09 am · 145 chars · rank #61

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 13 months.

2 hours of load shedding a day in Siliguri and the bill went up 30%

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 12:33 pm · 184 chars · rank #62

17 days without a transformer in Ward 32. the tehsildar's office says the spare is 'in process'. Meanwhile every shop on the street runs a generator and the air is unbreathable by 8pm.

Clearance granted in 21 days. Objections filed in that window: 2.

Posted 11 Aug 2026, 2:20 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.

Potholes counted on my commute this morning: 53

Posted 5 Aug 2026, 2:28 pm · 170 chars · rank #64

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.

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

Posted 5 Aug 2026, 6:23 am · 169 chars · rank #65

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.

7 hours of load shedding a day in Kozhikode and the bill went up 41%

Posted 26 Jul 2026, 12:15 pm · 169 chars · rank #66

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.

Government school here: 345 students, 9 teachers

Posted 14 Jul 2026, 8:01 am · 176 chars · rank #67

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.

Government school here: 202 students, 9 teachers

Posted 27 Jun 2026, 1:50 pm · 141 chars · rank #68

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.

Data's been off 10 days here and the exam portal doesn't care

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 9:45 am · 207 chars · rank #69

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.

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

Posted 17 Jul 2026, 4:20 pm · 184 chars · rank #70

7 hours of supply in 16 days, and the tanker that fills the gap costs ₹8000 a trip. We are paying twice — once in tax for a service that doesn't arrive, once in cash for one that does.

Potholes counted on my commute this morning: 72

Posted 12 Jul 2026, 11:16 pm · 187 chars · rank #71

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.

Next hearing scheduled 9 months out. The wall is already built.

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 12:58 am · 155 chars · rank #72

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.

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

Posted 7 Jul 2026, 7:11 pm · 185 chars · rank #73

10 days' notice for 32 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 37km from every school those kids attend.

Showed up to the Ward 38 meeting 8 times. It's already different.

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 7:47 am · 208 chars · rank #74

Physical letter, one page, one question, polite. Took 4 weeks and the reply was substantive. I'm posting it because everyone assumes this never works, and that assumption does a lot of unpaid labour for them.

38 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 6 filled.

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 9:10 pm · 186 chars · rank #75

Found this out at 2am the hard way. 15 on the register, 4 that actually run. Paper fleets kill people quietly and they never make the news because there's no single moment to photograph.

Day 9 of no internet in Nagpur. Nobody has given a reason.

Posted 4 Aug 2026, 3:30 pm · 211 chars · rank #76

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

5 hours of load shedding a day in Bilaspur and the bill went up 19%

Posted 17 Jul 2026, 6:30 pm · 184 chars · rank #77

18 days without a transformer in Ward 38. 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.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 7pm. Nearest hospital is 26km.

Posted 24 Jun 2026, 12:51 pm · 135 chars · rank #78

75 sanctioned, 4 filled, and then we publish health outcome reports and act puzzled. Fund the posts or stop pretending the posts exist.

Eviction notice giving 13 days to 50 families

Posted 30 Jun 2026, 1:57 am · 164 chars · rank #79

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.

43 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 6 filled.

Posted 3 Aug 2026, 12:20 am · 151 chars · rank #80

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.

Our school's science lab has been 'under renovation' for 14 months

Posted 18 Jun 2026, 1:50 pm · 166 chars · rank #81

153 kids, 3 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.

Ward 21 in Nashik: road 'completed' 18 months ago, still gravel

Posted 9 Jun 2026, 7:54 am · 170 chars · rank #82

Everyone in Ward 7 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.

Road dug up 5 times in 21 months by 7 different departments

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 3:49 pm · 185 chars · rank #83

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.

Ward 3 in Jalandhar: road 'completed' 7 months ago, still gravel

Posted 2 Jul 2026, 12:28 pm · 169 chars · rank #84

9 times in 23 months: water, then cables, then gas, then water again. Nobody coordinates, everybody re-tars badly, and residents pay for all of it in suspension repairs.

74 buses sanctioned for the route. 9 run.

Posted 14 Jul 2026, 1:12 am · 152 chars · rank #85

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.

55 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 3 filled.

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 10:14 pm · 186 chars · rank #86

Found this out at 2am the hard way. 11 on the register, 4 that actually run. Paper fleets kill people quietly and they never make the news because there's no single moment to photograph.

Rent up 33% in Aligarh. Salaries up 2%.

Posted 9 Jul 2026, 4:50 pm · 185 chars · rank #87

14 days' notice for 55 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 37km from every school those kids attend.

Showed up to the Ward 14 meeting 7 times. It's already different.

Posted 12 Jul 2026, 5:24 am · 142 chars · rank #88

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.

Transformer blew 20 days ago. the PWD office says 'no spare'.

Posted 23 Jul 2026, 11:39 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.

Ambulance fleet on paper: 11. Ambulances that start: 2.

Posted 7 Jul 2026, 11:23 am · 178 chars · rank #90

The scheme is real, the empanelment is real, and the bill was still ₹18000 in 'consumables'. Either fund the reimbursement properly or stop putting the scheme's name on the gate.

Fare up 20%, same 23-year-old buses

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 10:47 pm · 179 chars · rank #91

79 sanctioned, 4 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.

Exam postponed for the third time. That's 5 months of my life.

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 5:12 pm · 214 chars · rank #92

266 applications, 5 replies, one outright scam that wanted ₹18000 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.

165 applications. 13 replies. One of them wanted money.

Posted 23 Jun 2026, 9:45 pm · 213 chars · rank #93

313 applications, 7 replies, one outright scam that wanted ₹1800 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.

The PIO post has been vacant for 25 months. Convenient.

Posted 12 Jul 2026, 6:43 pm · 157 chars · rank #94

Notice up, bids in, award out, all inside 8 days. Either this was the most efficient procurement in the state's history or the shortlist predated the notice.

The vacancy list said 62. The joining list said 6.

Posted 9 Jul 2026, 12:20 pm · 144 chars · rank #95

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 8 months.

81 buses sanctioned for the route. 4 run.

Posted 28 Jun 2026, 3:44 am · 152 chars · rank #96

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

472 trees cut in Gorakhpur for a road that saves 9 minutes

Posted 14 Jun 2026, 9:21 am · 145 chars · rank #97

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.

87 buses sanctioned for the route. 4 run.

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 3:47 am · 152 chars · rank #98

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 education department says 'no spare'.

Posted 6 Jul 2026, 4:30 am · 192 chars · rank #99

16 days without a transformer in Ward 38. 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.

Same junction floods every year. the municipal corporation has surveyed it twice.

Posted 24 Jun 2026, 1:24 pm · 185 chars · rank #100

Ribbon, garlands, a hoarding with four faces on it, and 10 months later there's a trench where the road should be. The hoarding is in perfect condition. The contractor's number is dead.

19 buses sanctioned for the route. 7 run.

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 1:52 pm · 152 chars · rank #101

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.

8 hours of load shedding a day in Kozhikode and the bill went up 23%

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 3:40 pm · 169 chars · rank #102

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.

Recruitment notice from 10 months ago and still no exam date

Posted 17 Aug 2026, 4:47 pm · 188 chars · rank #103

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.

74 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 7 filled.

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 7:03 pm · 151 chars · rank #104

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.

Road dug up 6 times in 18 months by 9 different departments

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 1:28 am · 200 chars · rank #105

I've filed this with the municipal commissioner'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.

59 buses sanctioned for the route. 2 run.

Posted 1 Jul 2026, 5:06 pm · 179 chars · rank #106

25 sanctioned, 8 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.

Clearance granted in 16 days. Objections filed in that window: 2.

Posted 14 Aug 2026, 12:56 pm · 145 chars · rank #107

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.

Showed up to the Ward 3 meeting 6 times. It's already different.

Posted 1 Aug 2026, 11:53 am · 208 chars · rank #108

Physical letter, one page, one question, polite. Took 4 weeks and the reply was substantive. I'm posting it because everyone assumes this never works, and that assumption does a lot of unpaid labour for them.

Ward 9 in Surat: road 'completed' 17 months ago, still gravel

Posted 22 Jul 2026, 7:50 pm · 194 chars · rank #109

I've filed this with the block development 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.

65 buses sanctioned for the route. 4 run.

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 6:24 pm · 179 chars · rank #110

67 sanctioned, 9 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.

Day 13 of no internet in Thrissur. Nobody has given a reason.

Posted 21 Jun 2026, 7:25 pm · 175 chars · rank #111

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

AQI 'severe' for 3 straight days and schools stayed open

Posted 20 Aug 2026, 12:20 am · 145 chars · rank #112

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.

Next hearing scheduled 17 months out. The wall is already built.

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 8:25 am · 162 chars · rank #113

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.

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

Posted 16 Jul 2026, 8:55 pm · 182 chars · rank #114

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 31 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Fare up 48%, same 4-year-old buses

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 11:37 pm · 152 chars · rank #115

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.

Held 3 hours, released without charge, nothing on paper

Posted 3 Aug 2026, 12:36 pm · 167 chars · rank #116

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.

Showed up to the Ward 45 meeting 9 times. It's already different.

Posted 9 Jul 2026, 3:09 pm · 208 chars · rank #117

Physical letter, one page, one question, polite. Took 6 weeks and the reply was substantive. I'm posting it because everyone assumes this never works, and that assumption does a lot of unpaid labour for them.

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

Posted 16 Jun 2026, 12:03 pm · 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.

Road dug up 3 times in 5 months by 8 different departments

Posted 23 Jun 2026, 11:10 pm · 195 chars · rank #119

I've filed this with the public information 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.

Ward 38 has had water for 8 hours in 21 days

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 4:31 am · 161 chars · rank #120

The state's own report says the table has dropped 4 metres. The clearance for the new project cites that same report. Somebody read the number and signed anyway.

Eviction notice giving 21 days to 24 families

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 4:35 am · 182 chars · rank #121

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 56 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Compensatory plantation is 35km away on land nobody will water

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 5:35 am · 145 chars · rank #122

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.

368 applications. 6 replies. One of them wanted money.

Posted 23 Jun 2026, 2:10 pm · 175 chars · rank #123

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.

Data's been off 17 days here and the exam portal doesn't care

Posted 8 Jul 2026, 3:43 am · 213 chars · rank #124

The suspension rules require a published order and a review committee. Ask the pollution control board 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 8pm. Nearest hospital is 27km.

Posted 6 Aug 2026, 5:12 am · 135 chars · rank #125

31 sanctioned, 6 filled, and then we publish health outcome reports and act puzzled. Fund the posts or stop pretending the posts exist.

Showed up to the Ward 9 meeting 7 times. It's already different.

Posted 8 Jul 2026, 2:34 am · 208 chars · rank #126

Physical letter, one page, one question, polite. Took 4 weeks and the reply was substantive. I'm posting it because everyone assumes this never works, and that assumption does a lot of unpaid labour for them.

58 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 9 filled.

Posted 10 Jul 2026, 7:51 am · 135 chars · rank #127

27 sanctioned, 5 filled, and then we publish health outcome reports and act puzzled. Fund the posts or stop pretending the posts exist.

The vacancy list said 23. The joining list said 6.

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 3:05 am · 188 chars · rank #128

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.

5 hours of load shedding a day in Nashik and the bill went up 21%

Posted 6 Jul 2026, 3:29 am · 197 chars · rank #129

14 days without a transformer in Ward 14. the municipal commissioner's office says the spare is 'in process'. Meanwhile every shop on the street runs a generator and the air is unbreathable by 8pm.

47 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 5 filled.

Posted 13 Jul 2026, 9:05 am · 151 chars · rank #130

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.

Compensatory plantation is 13km away on land nobody will water

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 12:16 pm · 215 chars · rank #131

336 trees, forty years of canopy, for a rounding error in commute time. The compensatory plantation is 4km away in a different district on land nobody has budgeted to water. That's an accounting trick, not a forest.

243 trees cut in Kolhapur for a road that saves 2 minutes

Posted 14 Jul 2026, 9:33 am · 196 chars · rank #132

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 10 days to not.

23 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 5 filled.

Posted 5 Aug 2026, 2:22 pm · 135 chars · rank #133

69 sanctioned, 6 filled, and then we publish health outcome reports and act puzzled. Fund the posts or stop pretending the posts exist.

Cleared the prelims 14 months ago. Still waiting on a mains date.

Posted 23 Jul 2026, 3:11 am · 144 chars · rank #134

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 6 months.

85 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 30 Jun 2026, 2:16 am · 176 chars · rank #135

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.

Recruitment notice from 26 months ago and still no exam date

Posted 17 Jul 2026, 9:43 pm · 215 chars · rank #136

363 applications, 10 replies, one outright scam that wanted ₹12000 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.

The vacancy list said 88. The joining list said 9.

Posted 9 Jul 2026, 8:00 pm · 175 chars · rank #137

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.

Ward 7 has had water for 7 hours in 20 days

Posted 19 Jul 2026, 4:47 am · 161 chars · rank #138

The state's own report says the table has dropped 3 metres. The clearance for the new project cites that same report. Somebody read the number and signed anyway.

185 trees cut in Muzaffarpur for a road that saves 9 minutes

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 11:52 pm · 147 chars · rank #139

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.

Data's been off 4 days here and the exam portal doesn't care

Posted 27 Jun 2026, 8:00 pm · 193 chars · rank #140

Ambulances here run on phone calls. For 4 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.

Potholes counted on my commute this morning: 87

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 5:03 am · 185 chars · rank #141

Ribbon, garlands, a hoarding with four faces on it, and 14 months later there's a trench where the road should be. The hoarding is in perfect condition. The contractor's number is dead.

Showed up to the Ward 45 meeting 5 times. It's already different.

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 8:22 pm · 208 chars · rank #142

Physical letter, one page, one question, polite. Took 7 weeks and the reply was substantive. I'm posting it because everyone assumes this never works, and that assumption does a lot of unpaid labour for them.

Got a takedown notice for a 16-month-old post

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 4:43 pm · 171 chars · rank #143

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.

Government school here: 167 students, 2 teachers

Posted 12 Jun 2026, 2:52 pm · 176 chars · rank #144

A 41% 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.

Road dug up 8 times in 13 months by 8 different departments

Posted 28 Jul 2026, 7:08 pm · 187 chars · rank #145

I've filed this with the executive 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.

Transformer blew 21 days ago. the district collectorate says 'no spare'.

Posted 25 Jun 2026, 5:06 pm · 184 chars · rank #146

12 days without a transformer in Ward 18. the executive 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 48% and the same 23-year-old lab

Posted 16 Jul 2026, 5:52 am · 166 chars · rank #147

465 kids, 6 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.

Fare up 42%, same 10-year-old buses

Posted 30 Jun 2026, 11:30 pm · 152 chars · rank #148

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.

87 buses sanctioned for the route. 2 run.

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 5:34 am · 152 chars · rank #149

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.

Government school here: 309 students, 8 teachers

Posted 28 Jul 2026, 12:20 pm · 166 chars · rank #150

413 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.

19 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 4 filled.

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 11:53 am · 178 chars · rank #151

The scheme is real, the empanelment is real, and the bill was still ₹24000 in 'consumables'. Either fund the reimbursement properly or stop putting the scheme's name on the gate.

'Stipend' of ₹3500 for a 53-hour week is not a training role

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 7:43 am · 145 chars · rank #152

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 13 months.

Same junction floods every year. the education department has surveyed it twice.

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 5:34 am · 195 chars · rank #153

Ask the health 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.

The vacancy list said 44. The joining list said 3.

Posted 11 Aug 2026, 10:27 am · 145 chars · rank #154

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 15 months.

3 hours of load shedding a day in Nagpur and the bill went up 44%

Posted 23 Jun 2026, 1:33 pm · 183 chars · rank #155

3 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.

Ambulance fleet on paper: 10. Ambulances that start: 5.

Posted 29 Jul 2026, 9:53 am · 177 chars · rank #156

The scheme is real, the empanelment is real, and the bill was still ₹1800 in 'consumables'. Either fund the reimbursement properly or stop putting the scheme's name on the gate.

Potholes counted on my commute this morning: 39

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 2:54 am · 201 chars · rank #157

Ask the pollution control 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.

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

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 11:05 am · 214 chars · rank #158

144 applications, 3 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.

9 hours of load shedding a day in Bilaspur and the bill went up 35%

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 6:24 am · 183 chars · rank #159

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.

Compensatory plantation is 41km away on land nobody will water

Posted 27 Jun 2026, 4:06 am · 147 chars · rank #160

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.

78 buses sanctioned for the route. 5 run.

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 6:19 pm · 152 chars · rank #161

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

85 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 7 filled.

Posted 17 Jun 2026, 3:27 pm · 186 chars · rank #162

Found this out at 2am the hard way. 11 on the register, 6 that actually run. Paper fleets kill people quietly and they never make the news because there's no single moment to photograph.

Fee hike of 17% and the same 16-year-old lab

Posted 11 Jul 2026, 4:05 pm · 176 chars · rank #163

A 37% 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 40%, same 30-year-old buses

Posted 30 Jun 2026, 11:34 pm · 179 chars · rank #164

40 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.

Eviction notice giving 11 days to 18 families

Posted 3 Jul 2026, 6:02 am · 182 chars · rank #165

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 53 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Government school here: 187 students, 4 teachers

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 9:33 am · 176 chars · rank #166

A 13% 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 37%, same 25-year-old buses

Posted 3 Jul 2026, 11:06 pm · 179 chars · rank #167

60 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.

Shutdown in Surat: 471 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 11:17 pm · 174 chars · rank #168

43 shopkeepers on our street take payment only by UPI. For 9 days that has meant nothing. Nobody will ever be invoiced for that loss and nobody has been told why it happened.

Rent up 33% in Tirupati. Salaries up 6%.

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 8:37 pm · 184 chars · rank #169

9 days' notice for 20 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 13km from every school those kids attend.

The vacancy list said 81. The joining list said 9.

Posted 23 Jul 2026, 1:45 am · 214 chars · rank #170

279 applications, 14 replies, one outright scam that wanted ₹1800 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.

Ward 5 has had water for 7 hours in 15 days

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 11:38 am · 184 chars · rank #171

6 hours of supply in 17 days, and the tanker that fills the gap costs ₹3500 a trip. We are paying twice — once in tax for a service that doesn't arrive, once in cash for one that does.

Last bus at 4pm in a city that works till midnight

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 3:17 pm · 152 chars · rank #172

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.

Fee hike of 47% and the same 14-year-old lab

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 12:25 am · 141 chars · rank #173

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.

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

Posted 12 Jul 2026, 9:29 am · 184 chars · rank #174

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.

Transformer blew 6 days ago. the district collectorate says 'no spare'.

Posted 16 Jul 2026, 2:54 pm · 183 chars · rank #175

9 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.

Got a takedown notice for a 30-month-old post

Posted 13 Jun 2026, 5:58 pm · 204 chars · rank #176

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.

Fare up 46%, same 29-year-old buses

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 5:36 am · 179 chars · rank #177

30 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.

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

Posted 20 Jun 2026, 6:49 pm · 192 chars · rank #178

There's no published schedule. There used to be. When you ask the pollution control board for one, you're told it 'depends on pressure'. Pressure that apparently has a favourite neighbourhood.

Data's been off 15 days here and the exam portal doesn't care

Posted 8 Jul 2026, 12:07 am · 193 chars · rank #179

Ambulances here run on phone calls. For 3 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.

Rent up 31% in Bilaspur. Salaries up 2%.

Posted 22 Jul 2026, 3:10 pm · 185 chars · rank #180

15 days' notice for 70 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 12km from every school those kids attend.

Fare up 21%, same 30-year-old buses

Posted 25 Jun 2026, 10:52 pm · 179 chars · rank #181

57 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.

Eviction notice giving 3 days to 74 families

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 10:26 pm · 164 chars · rank #182

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.

Ward 5 has had water for 4 hours in 14 days

Posted 14 Jun 2026, 4:23 pm · 162 chars · rank #183

The state's own report says the table has dropped 14 metres. The clearance for the new project cites that same report. Somebody read the number and signed anyway.

Ward 7 has had water for 3 hours in 18 days

Posted 30 Jun 2026, 1:57 pm · 185 chars · rank #184

3 hours of supply in 10 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.

Potholes counted on my commute this morning: 73

Posted 22 Jun 2026, 6:31 am · 171 chars · rank #185

Everyone in Ward 27 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.

Road dug up 5 times in 4 months by 4 different departments

Posted 6 Aug 2026, 10:48 am · 195 chars · rank #186

I've filed this with the public information 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.

Transformer blew 20 days ago. the municipal corporation says 'no spare'.

Posted 15 Jul 2026, 3:36 am · 169 chars · rank #187

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.

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

Posted 9 Jul 2026, 8:50 pm · 193 chars · rank #188

Ambulances here run on phone calls. For 5 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.

28 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 10 Jul 2026, 6:49 am · 141 chars · rank #189

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.

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

Posted 17 Jul 2026, 1:26 pm · 184 chars · rank #190

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.

Got a takedown notice for a 20-month-old post

Posted 11 Jul 2026, 12:52 pm · 167 chars · rank #191

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.

'Stipend' of ₹3500 for a 67-hour week is not a training role

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 9:31 pm · 169 chars · rank #192

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹12000 a month, 25 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

Potholes counted on my commute this morning: 45

Posted 17 Jul 2026, 10:42 am · 169 chars · rank #193

7 times in 26 months: water, then cables, then gas, then water again. Nobody coordinates, everybody re-tars badly, and residents pay for all of it in suspension repairs.

Eviction notice giving 6 days to 69 families

Posted 16 Jun 2026, 2:14 pm · 182 chars · rank #194

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.

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

Posted 14 Aug 2026, 3:58 pm · 210 chars · rank #195

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.

Nothing happened in my ward today and I'm suspicious

Posted 25 Aug 2026, 3:04 am · 150 chars · rank #196

No notices, no diggings, no sudden hoardings. Either genuine peace or something's being signed. Checking the tender portal tomorrow. Will report back.

'Stipend' of ₹18000 for a 34-hour week is not a training role

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 7:49 am · 168 chars · rank #197

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹8000 a month, 58 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

Transformer blew 17 days ago. the labour department says 'no spare'.

Posted 26 Jun 2026, 11:40 am · 169 chars · rank #198

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.

Last bus at 9pm in a city that works till midnight

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 8:53 pm · 152 chars · rank #199

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

Government school here: 434 students, 8 teachers

Posted 10 Jul 2026, 2:29 am · 175 chars · rank #200

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.

431 applications. 5 replies. One of them wanted money.

Posted 10 Jun 2026, 11:31 am · 188 chars · rank #201

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.

Fare up 34%, same 18-year-old buses

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 10:36 pm · 152 chars · rank #202

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

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

Posted 4 Aug 2026, 12:19 pm · 186 chars · rank #203

There's no published schedule. There used to be. When you ask the labour department for one, you're told it 'depends on pressure'. Pressure that apparently has a favourite neighbourhood.

Eviction notice giving 7 days to 47 families

Posted 4 Aug 2026, 11:20 am · 182 chars · rank #204

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.

35 buses sanctioned for the route. 6 run.

Posted 2 Jul 2026, 5:39 pm · 152 chars · rank #205

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 6 days before the national channels

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 3:49 am · 167 chars · rank #206

Ran in a regional paper 16 days before anyone national picked it up, and then without attribution. English-first coverage keeps mistaking itself for the whole country.

Road dug up 8 times in 16 months by 3 different departments

Posted 15 Jun 2026, 2:44 am · 195 chars · rank #207

I've filed this with the public information 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.

386 trees cut in Nagpur for a road that saves 4 minutes

Posted 12 Jul 2026, 5:10 pm · 145 chars · rank #208

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.

10 takedowns this month and none of them named a complainant

Posted 24 Jul 2026, 9:50 pm · 167 chars · rank #209

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.

4 hours of load shedding a day in Panipat and the bill went up 31%

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 5:52 am · 184 chars · rank #210

17 days without a transformer in Ward 11. 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.

Road dug up 4 times in 16 months by 7 different departments

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 12:34 pm · 170 chars · rank #211

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.

Eviction notice giving 18 days to 73 families

Posted 19 Jul 2026, 1:16 am · 182 chars · rank #212

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 32 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

74 buses sanctioned for the route. 7 run.

Posted 6 Jul 2026, 9:39 am · 179 chars · rank #213

86 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.

Same junction floods every year. the water board has surveyed it twice.

Posted 4 Aug 2026, 12:17 am · 195 chars · rank #214

I've filed this with the public information 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.

60 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 29 Jul 2026, 8:53 pm · 176 chars · rank #215

A 26% 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.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 9pm. Nearest hospital is 9km.

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 10:59 pm · 151 chars · rank #216

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.

Recruitment notice from 14 months ago and still no exam date

Posted 8 Jul 2026, 8:53 am · 175 chars · rank #217

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.

Fee hike of 30% and the same 26-year-old lab

Posted 20 Aug 2026, 3:01 am · 176 chars · rank #218

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.

Fee hike of 22% and the same 4-year-old lab

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 12:36 pm · 175 chars · rank #219

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.

Shutdown in Bhopal: 280 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 1:09 am · 211 chars · rank #220

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

The PIO post has been vacant for 13 months. Convenient.

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 11:27 am · 184 chars · rank #221

Statutory timeline is 30 days. Actual: 4 months and counting. There's a penalty provision for this. It is essentially never applied, which is why the timeline is essentially never met.

Shutdown in Warangal: 419 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 6:07 am · 174 chars · rank #222

28 shopkeepers on our street take payment only by UPI. For 6 days that has meant nothing. Nobody will ever be invoiced for that loss and nobody has been told why it happened.

Fee hike of 18% and the same 30-year-old lab

Posted 4 Jul 2026, 2:36 pm · 175 chars · rank #223

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.

81 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 5 filled.

Posted 30 Jun 2026, 10:57 am · 151 chars · rank #224

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.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 5pm. Nearest hospital is 29km.

Posted 24 Jul 2026, 5:53 pm · 186 chars · rank #225

Found this out at 2am the hard way. 15 on the register, 4 that actually run. Paper fleets kill people quietly and they never make the news because there's no single moment to photograph.

Government school here: 151 students, 5 teachers

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 4:35 am · 176 chars · rank #226

A 13% 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.

Ward 11 in Surat: road 'completed' 27 months ago, still gravel

Posted 5 Jul 2026, 7:46 pm · 170 chars · rank #227