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AQI 'severe' for 10 straight days and schools stayed open

Posted 19 Jun 2026, 12:52 am · 216 chars · rank #1

269 trees, forty years of canopy, for a rounding error in commute time. The compensatory plantation is 40km away in a different district on land nobody has budgeted to water. That's an accounting trick, not a forest.

65 buses sanctioned for the route. 5 run.

Posted 10 Jun 2026, 7:35 pm · 179 chars · rank #2

19 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.

Account restricted for 13 days, no reason given, no appeal that answers

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 5:13 am · 167 chars · rank #3

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.

The vacancy list said 37. The joining list said 8.

Posted 24 Jun 2026, 12:02 am · 188 chars · rank #4

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.

Inaugurated in Bareilly, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 8:24 am · 170 chars · rank #5

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.

Showed up to the Ward 7 meeting 8 times. It's already different.

Posted 3 Jul 2026, 9:01 pm · 208 chars · rank #6

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.

Rent up 17% in Patna. Salaries up 6%.

Posted 5 Jul 2026, 12:22 pm · 164 chars · rank #7

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 ₹3500 for a 90-hour week is not a training role

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 9:58 pm · 168 chars · rank #8

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹5000 a month, 45 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

The PIO post has been vacant for 10 months. Convenient.

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 8:38 pm · 198 chars · rank #9

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.

Cleared the prelims 26 months ago. Still waiting on a mains date.

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 10:38 am · 175 chars · rank #10

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.

Showed up to the Ward 5 meeting 6 times. It's already different.

Posted 24 Jun 2026, 1:30 pm · 185 chars · rank #11

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.

374 trees cut in Bhopal for a road that saves 7 minutes

Posted 3 Jul 2026, 1:41 am · 216 chars · rank #12

406 trees, forty years of canopy, for a rounding error in commute time. The compensatory plantation is 27km away in a different district on land nobody has budgeted to water. That's an accounting trick, not a forest.

Road dug up 3 times in 29 months by 4 different departments

Posted 19 Jul 2026, 10:37 am · 170 chars · rank #13

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.

58 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 6 filled.

Posted 12 Jun 2026, 10:04 pm · 151 chars · rank #14

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.

'Stipend' of ₹8000 for a 79-hour week is not a training role

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 2:43 pm · 213 chars · rank #15

345 applications, 6 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.

Eviction notice giving 8 days to 53 families

Posted 16 Jun 2026, 11:58 am · 182 chars · rank #16

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 39 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

6 hours of load shedding a day in Bilaspur and the bill went up 43%

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 6:02 pm · 183 chars · rank #17

14 days without a transformer in Ward 3. 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.

Road dug up 3 times in 16 months by 5 different departments

Posted 23 Jul 2026, 10:05 pm · 169 chars · rank #18

5 times in 14 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.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 5pm. Nearest hospital is 12km.

Posted 10 Jun 2026, 6:13 pm · 177 chars · rank #19

The scheme is real, the empanelment is real, and the bill was still ₹3500 in 'consumables'. Either fund the reimbursement properly or stop putting the scheme's name on the gate.

5 hours of load shedding a day in Madurai and the bill went up 38%

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 12:27 am · 183 chars · rank #20

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.

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

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 2:36 am · 182 chars · rank #21

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 19 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

67 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 3 filled.

Posted 22 Jun 2026, 2:51 pm · 178 chars · rank #22

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.

Our school's science lab has been 'under renovation' for 5 months

Posted 14 Jun 2026, 6:30 pm · 166 chars · rank #23

150 kids, 8 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.

Clearance granted in 19 days. Objections filed in that window: 6.

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 8:40 pm · 196 chars · rank #24

The impact assessment cites a survey from 29 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 20 days to not.

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

Posted 24 Jun 2026, 10:48 pm · 182 chars · rank #25

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 49 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

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

Posted 23 Jun 2026, 10:33 am · 185 chars · rank #26

10 days' notice for 71 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 34km from every school those kids attend.

Tender awarded 14 days after the notice went up

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 3:37 pm · 185 chars · rank #27

Statutory timeline is 30 days. Actual: 17 months and counting. There's a penalty provision for this. It is essentially never applied, which is why the timeline is essentially never met.

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

Posted 18 Jul 2026, 2:44 am · 161 chars · rank #28

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.

Road dug up 5 times in 11 months by 2 different departments

Posted 17 Aug 2026, 12:50 pm · 187 chars · rank #29

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.

Rent up 13% in Panipat. Salaries up 2%.

Posted 13 Jul 2026, 10:44 pm · 185 chars · rank #30

11 days' notice for 62 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 42km from every school those kids attend.

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

Posted 8 Jul 2026, 8:51 pm · 225 chars · rank #31

Day 14. 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

Rent up 12% in Nagpur. Salaries up 7%.

Posted 11 Jul 2026, 4:16 am · 182 chars · rank #32

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 49 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Compensatory plantation is 40km away on land nobody will water

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 8:42 am · 216 chars · rank #33

455 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.

Potholes counted on my commute this morning: 63

Posted 17 Jun 2026, 5:34 am · 170 chars · rank #34

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.

Eviction notice giving 7 days to 59 families

Posted 4 Jul 2026, 10:09 pm · 184 chars · rank #35

7 days' notice for 64 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.

Clearance granted in 9 days. Objections filed in that window: 8.

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 11:43 am · 195 chars · rank #36

The impact assessment cites a survey from 30 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 7 days to not.

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

Posted 3 Aug 2026, 8:04 pm · 225 chars · rank #37

Day 14. 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

59 buses sanctioned for the route. 5 run.

Posted 7 Jul 2026, 5:32 pm · 152 chars · rank #38

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.

'Stipend' of ₹5000 for a 89-hour week is not a training role

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 12:41 pm · 175 chars · rank #39

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.

Next hearing scheduled 18 months out. The wall is already built.

Posted 14 Jun 2026, 7:31 pm · 167 chars · rank #40

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.

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

Posted 19 Jun 2026, 9:47 pm · 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.

Rent up 43% in Rourkela. Salaries up 7%.

Posted 13 Jun 2026, 6:31 am · 185 chars · rank #42

10 days' notice for 49 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.

Ward 45 has had water for 5 hours in 5 days

Posted 16 Jun 2026, 7:26 pm · 175 chars · rank #43

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.

43 buses sanctioned for the route. 5 run.

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 12:10 am · 152 chars · rank #44

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.

Inaugurated in Guwahati, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 6 Jul 2026, 11:14 am · 188 chars · rank #45

Ask the PWD office 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.

Inaugurated in Aligarh, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 11 Jul 2026, 2:40 pm · 189 chars · rank #46

Ask the water 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.

'Stipend' of ₹8000 for a 44-hour week is not a training role

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 7:48 am · 144 chars · rank #47

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 7 months.

Road dug up 7 times in 10 months by 3 different departments

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 3:31 pm · 169 chars · rank #48

5 times in 10 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 7 days to 52 families

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 1:05 pm · 164 chars · rank #49

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.

AQI 'severe' for 8 straight days and schools stayed open

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 10:12 am · 147 chars · rank #50

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.

2 hours of load shedding a day in Kochi and the bill went up 26%

Posted 23 Jul 2026, 9:56 pm · 183 chars · rank #51

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.

Exam postponed for the fourth time. That's 16 months of my life.

Posted 4 Jul 2026, 12:58 pm · 215 chars · rank #52

169 applications, 14 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.

Fee hike of 41% and the same 13-year-old lab

Posted 22 Jun 2026, 9:19 am · 176 chars · rank #53

A 29% 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 38 has had water for 5 hours in 7 days

Posted 29 Jul 2026, 9:45 pm · 175 chars · rank #54

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.

Rent up 28% in Durgapur. Salaries up 6%.

Posted 5 Jul 2026, 4:09 pm · 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.

304 trees cut in Varanasi for a road that saves 3 minutes

Posted 7 Jul 2026, 6:19 am · 145 chars · rank #56

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.

Inaugurated in Kozhikode, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 18 Jul 2026, 7:28 am · 169 chars · rank #57

8 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.

50 buses sanctioned for the route. 7 run.

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 11:57 pm · 152 chars · rank #58

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.

63 buses sanctioned for the route. 8 run.

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 11:18 pm · 179 chars · rank #59

27 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.

Tender awarded 19 days after the notice went up

Posted 11 Aug 2026, 1:24 am · 185 chars · rank #60

Statutory timeline is 30 days. Actual: 17 months and counting. There's a penalty provision for this. It is essentially never applied, which is why the timeline is essentially never met.

Day 10 of no internet in Nashik. Nobody has given a reason.

Posted 17 Aug 2026, 2:26 pm · 175 chars · rank #61

33 shopkeepers on our street take payment only by UPI. For 20 days that has meant nothing. Nobody will ever be invoiced for that loss and nobody has been told why it happened.

Road dug up 8 times in 19 months by 2 different departments

Posted 2 Aug 2026, 1:26 pm · 169 chars · rank #62

6 times in 18 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.

20 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 6 filled.

Posted 26 Jul 2026, 2:50 pm · 177 chars · rank #63

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.

Fee hike of 17% and the same 14-year-old lab

Posted 1 Aug 2026, 11:28 am · 175 chars · rank #64

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 29 months. Convenient.

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 2:39 pm · 157 chars · rank #65

Notice up, bids in, award out, all inside 3 days. Either this was the most efficient procurement in the state's history or the shortlist predated the notice.

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

Posted 18 Jul 2026, 6:39 pm · 194 chars · rank #66

Ambulances here run on phone calls. For 10 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.

Groundwater down 5 metres in a decade. New approval granted anyway.

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 8:47 pm · 190 chars · rank #67

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

40 buses sanctioned for the route. 6 run.

Posted 27 Jun 2026, 10:09 am · 152 chars · rank #68

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 Panipat is just the water board outsourcing its job

Posted 14 Jul 2026, 5:24 pm · 161 chars · rank #69

The state's own report says the table has dropped 6 metres. The clearance for the new project cites that same report. Somebody read the number and signed anyway.

Eviction notice giving 8 days to 52 families

Posted 2 Aug 2026, 6:25 pm · 164 chars · rank #70

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.

Compensatory plantation is 19km away on land nobody will water

Posted 14 Jun 2026, 3:18 am · 145 chars · rank #71

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.

Transformer blew 6 days ago. the water board says 'no spare'.

Posted 19 Jun 2026, 2:59 pm · 169 chars · rank #72

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.

432 trees cut in Salem for a road that saves 4 minutes

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 7:39 pm · 196 chars · rank #73

The impact assessment cites a survey from 13 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 13 days to not.

AQI 'severe' for 6 straight days and schools stayed open

Posted 7 Jul 2026, 11:06 pm · 216 chars · rank #74

301 trees, forty years of canopy, for a rounding error in commute time. The compensatory plantation is 23km away in a different district on land nobody has budgeted to water. That's an accounting trick, not a forest.

362 trees cut in Bilaspur for a road that saves 5 minutes

Posted 12 Aug 2026, 3:55 am · 196 chars · rank #75

The impact assessment cites a survey from 22 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 21 days to not.

Ward 5 has had water for 2 hours in 13 days

Posted 21 Jun 2026, 11:56 am · 161 chars · rank #76

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.

Clearance granted in 16 days. Objections filed in that window: 7.

Posted 19 Jun 2026, 2:05 pm · 147 chars · rank #77

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.

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

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 2:20 pm · 164 chars · rank #78

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.

378 trees cut in Bareilly for a road that saves 5 minutes

Posted 21 Jun 2026, 2:12 am · 147 chars · rank #79

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.

Road dug up 4 times in 6 months by 2 different departments

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 1:50 pm · 168 chars · rank #80

7 times in 4 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.

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

Posted 6 Jul 2026, 5:39 am · 184 chars · rank #81

4 hours of supply in 4 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.

Showed up to the Ward 21 meeting 14 times. It's already different.

Posted 23 Jul 2026, 9:01 pm · 185 chars · rank #82

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.

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

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 12:12 pm · 193 chars · rank #83

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.

Station refused an FIR for 9 hours over 'jurisdiction'

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 2:44 pm · 167 chars · rank #84

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 27%, same 12-year-old buses

Posted 28 Jun 2026, 8:21 pm · 179 chars · rank #85

22 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.

417 trees cut in Kochi for a road that saves 4 minutes

Posted 13 Jul 2026, 12:51 am · 216 chars · rank #86

201 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.

Fare up 38%, same 21-year-old buses

Posted 14 Jul 2026, 7:04 pm · 179 chars · rank #87

43 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.

Compensatory plantation is 15km away on land nobody will water

Posted 28 Jul 2026, 3:16 am · 216 chars · rank #88

215 trees, forty years of canopy, for a rounding error in commute time. The compensatory plantation is 10km away in a different district on land nobody has budgeted to water. That's an accounting trick, not a forest.

Potholes counted on my commute this morning: 19

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 12:03 pm · 187 chars · rank #89

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.

The vacancy list said 90. The joining list said 6.

Posted 13 Jul 2026, 6:23 am · 145 chars · rank #90

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 26 months.

69 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 6 filled.

Posted 29 Jun 2026, 5:03 pm · 186 chars · rank #91

Found this out at 2am the hard way. 14 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.

Showed up to the Ward 45 meeting 10 times. It's already different.

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 11:27 pm · 185 chars · rank #92

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.

Road dug up 9 times in 5 months by 4 different departments

Posted 17 Jul 2026, 4:39 pm · 170 chars · rank #93

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.

Shutdown in Salem: 176 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 23 Jun 2026, 2:54 am · 211 chars · rank #94

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.

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

Posted 26 Jun 2026, 10:54 am · 175 chars · rank #95

55 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.

44 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 4:59 pm · 141 chars · rank #96

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.

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

Posted 26 Jun 2026, 8:08 pm · 185 chars · rank #97

9 hours of supply in 11 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 19 days ago. the transport department says 'no spare'.

Posted 12 Aug 2026, 12:31 pm · 190 chars · rank #98

5 days without a transformer in Ward 7. 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.

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

Posted 24 Jun 2026, 7:21 pm · 168 chars · rank #99

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹1800 a month, 62 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

74 buses sanctioned for the route. 5 run.

Posted 13 Jun 2026, 3:04 am · 152 chars · rank #100

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

Eviction notice giving 6 days to 76 families

Posted 16 Jun 2026, 9:01 am · 184 chars · rank #101

9 days' notice for 70 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 42km from every school those kids attend.

Potholes counted on my commute this morning: 78

Posted 2 Jul 2026, 7:57 pm · 169 chars · rank #102

9 times in 19 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.

34 buses sanctioned for the route. 6 run.

Posted 19 Jul 2026, 10:39 pm · 152 chars · rank #103

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

127 trees cut in Jodhpur for a road that saves 4 minutes

Posted 18 Jun 2026, 8:55 am · 195 chars · rank #104

The impact assessment cites a survey from 28 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 7 days to not.

Eviction notice giving 6 days to 32 families

Posted 1 Jul 2026, 3:54 pm · 182 chars · rank #105

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 41 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Fee hike of 21% and the same 16-year-old lab

Posted 11 Jul 2026, 9:32 pm · 175 chars · rank #106

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.

Exam postponed for the second time. That's 20 months of my life.

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 10:32 pm · 188 chars · rank #107

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.

7 hours of load shedding a day in Muzaffarpur and the bill went up 20%

Posted 25 Jun 2026, 1:53 am · 184 chars · rank #108

21 days without a transformer in Ward 27. 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.

Shutdown in Kozhikode: 198 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 8:12 pm · 213 chars · rank #109

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.

Transformer blew 18 days ago. the electricity board says 'no spare'.

Posted 13 Jun 2026, 12:13 pm · 169 chars · rank #110

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.

8 hours of load shedding a day in Gorakhpur and the bill went up 24%

Posted 19 Jun 2026, 9:33 am · 196 chars · rank #111

10 days without a transformer in Ward 9. 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.

Fee hike of 26% and the same 9-year-old lab

Posted 24 Jul 2026, 10:06 am · 166 chars · rank #112

159 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.

Fee hike of 23% and the same 20-year-old lab

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 4:28 pm · 141 chars · rank #113

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.

Demolition first, survey later, rehabilitation never

Posted 3 Jul 2026, 12:32 pm · 164 chars · rank #114

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 11 in Dehradun: road 'completed' 6 months ago, still gravel

Posted 17 Aug 2026, 6:41 am · 187 chars · rank #115

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.

Unpopular: some of the outrage here is aimed at the wrong office entirely

Posted 23 Aug 2026, 5:04 pm · 191 chars · rank #116

Half the things people rage about on this feed are municipal, not national. It's satisfying to blame the top and useless for fixing your drain. Learn which office owns your problem, then aim.

Ambulance fleet on paper: 13. Ambulances that start: 4.

Posted 5 Aug 2026, 11:57 pm · 151 chars · rank #117

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.

Inaugurated in Varanasi, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 11:12 am · 185 chars · rank #118

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.

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

Posted 26 Jul 2026, 5:57 pm · 215 chars · rank #119

177 applications, 10 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.

Shutdown in Jalandhar: 206 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 9 Jul 2026, 4:39 am · 194 chars · rank #120

Ambulances here run on phone calls. For 11 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.

252 trees cut in Madurai for a road that saves 2 minutes

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 10:22 am · 145 chars · rank #121

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.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 6pm. Nearest hospital is 8km.

Posted 19 Jul 2026, 1:18 am · 186 chars · rank #122

Found this out at 2am the hard way. 12 on the register, 5 that actually run. Paper fleets kill people quietly and they never make the news because there's no single moment to photograph.

Eviction notice giving 4 days to 40 families

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 10:29 pm · 184 chars · rank #123

16 days' notice for 79 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.

83 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 19 Jun 2026, 6:17 pm · 141 chars · rank #124

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 16 of no internet in Ludhiana. Nobody has given a reason.

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 5:25 am · 193 chars · rank #125

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.

Free scheme, ₹18000 bill. Somebody explain.

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 1:14 am · 186 chars · rank #126

Found this out at 2am the hard way. 16 on the register, 3 that actually run. Paper fleets kill people quietly and they never make the news because there's no single moment to photograph.

Free scheme, ₹3500 bill. Somebody explain.

Posted 17 Jun 2026, 5:20 pm · 186 chars · rank #127

Found this out at 2am the hard way. 11 on the register, 3 that actually run. Paper fleets kill people quietly and they never make the news because there's no single moment to photograph.

Ward 27 has had water for 6 hours in 7 days

Posted 4 Jul 2026, 4:44 am · 175 chars · rank #128

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.

Our school's science lab has been 'under renovation' for 11 months

Posted 16 Jun 2026, 11:20 am · 166 chars · rank #129

266 kids, 9 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.

88 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 7 filled.

Posted 30 Jun 2026, 6:36 am · 135 chars · rank #130

80 sanctioned, 7 filled, and then we publish health outcome reports and act puzzled. Fund the posts or stop pretending the posts exist.

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

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 5:44 pm · 189 chars · rank #131

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.

Waited 9 hours in a district hospital corridor last night

Posted 30 Jun 2026, 8:26 pm · 135 chars · rank #132

34 sanctioned, 7 filled, and then we publish health outcome reports and act puzzled. Fund the posts or stop pretending the posts exist.

Ward 18 in Ludhiana: road 'completed' 9 months ago, still gravel

Posted 16 Jun 2026, 2:46 pm · 169 chars · rank #133

2 times in 25 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.

Fare up 22%, same 21-year-old buses

Posted 16 Jun 2026, 2:22 pm · 152 chars · rank #134

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 39% and the same 23-year-old lab

Posted 20 Aug 2026, 10:56 pm · 175 chars · rank #135

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 10 days. Objections filed in that window: 4.

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 1:07 pm · 216 chars · rank #136

307 trees, forty years of canopy, for a rounding error in commute time. The compensatory plantation is 11km away in a different district on land nobody has budgeted to water. That's an accounting trick, not a forest.

The PIO post has been vacant for 12 months. Convenient.

Posted 12 Jul 2026, 3:55 am · 198 chars · rank #137

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.

Pick one local issue and stay on it for a year

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 1:21 pm · 142 chars · rank #138

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.

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

Posted 30 Jun 2026, 1:33 am · 185 chars · rank #139

Statutory timeline is 30 days. Actual: 28 months and counting. There's a penalty provision for this. It is essentially never applied, which is why the timeline is essentially never met.

Fare up 44%, same 24-year-old buses

Posted 23 Jun 2026, 8:05 am · 152 chars · rank #140

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.

Clearance granted in 4 days. Objections filed in that window: 9.

Posted 14 Aug 2026, 1:40 am · 145 chars · rank #141

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.

Rent up 39% in Cuttack. Salaries up 5%.

Posted 13 Jun 2026, 7:11 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.

Transformer blew 10 days ago. the PWD office says 'no spare'.

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 6:13 pm · 183 chars · rank #143

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.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 4pm. Nearest hospital is 32km.

Posted 24 Jul 2026, 5:59 am · 177 chars · rank #144

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.

30 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 6:00 am · 176 chars · rank #145

A 43% 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.

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

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 12:52 am · 184 chars · rank #146

9 days' notice for 24 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.

320 applications. 4 replies. One of them wanted money.

Posted 12 Jun 2026, 5:13 am · 145 chars · rank #147

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 10 months.

Potholes counted on my commute this morning: 65

Posted 29 Jul 2026, 5:25 pm · 171 chars · rank #148

Everyone in Ward 21 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.

Exam postponed for the third time. That's 10 months of my life.

Posted 21 Jul 2026, 5:06 pm · 188 chars · rank #149

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.

Government school here: 480 students, 6 teachers

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 2:42 pm · 175 chars · rank #150

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.

4 boxes on the debate panel, zero minutes of silence

Posted 23 Jul 2026, 4:21 pm · 172 chars · rank #151

Nobody completed a sentence in 42 minutes. The format isn't broken — it works perfectly. It produces heat, sells ads and settles nothing. Mute it and read the actual order.

27 buses sanctioned for the route. 5 run.

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 8:28 pm · 152 chars · rank #152

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

Inaugurated in Jalandhar, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 27 Jun 2026, 10:12 am · 195 chars · rank #153

Ask the labour 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.

442 trees cut in Patna for a road that saves 4 minutes

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 12:32 am · 147 chars · rank #154

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 13 days here and the exam portal doesn't care

Posted 18 Jul 2026, 12:25 am · 174 chars · rank #155

70 shopkeepers on our street take payment only by UPI. For 5 days that has meant nothing. Nobody will ever be invoiced for that loss and nobody has been told why it happened.

Next hearing scheduled 10 months out. The wall is already built.

Posted 9 Aug 2026, 6:05 am · 162 chars · rank #156

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.

Ambulance fleet on paper: 10. Ambulances that start: 2.

Posted 4 Aug 2026, 5:53 am · 135 chars · rank #157

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

75 buses sanctioned for the route. 5 run.

Posted 15 Jul 2026, 11:14 am · 179 chars · rank #158

63 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 Ludhiana: 296 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 2 Jul 2026, 9:43 pm · 194 chars · rank #159

Ambulances here run on phone calls. For 13 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.

2 hours of load shedding a day in Belagavi and the bill went up 17%

Posted 23 Jul 2026, 4:57 am · 169 chars · rank #160

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.

164 trees cut in Coimbatore for a road that saves 9 minutes

Posted 11 Aug 2026, 11:58 am · 195 chars · rank #161

The impact assessment cites a survey from 24 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 4 days to not.

Eviction notice giving 11 days to 88 families

Posted 14 Jul 2026, 5:28 am · 164 chars · rank #162

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.

Day 20 of no internet in Guwahati. Nobody has given a reason.

Posted 15 Jun 2026, 1:56 am · 194 chars · rank #163

Ambulances here run on phone calls. For 14 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.

Ambulance fleet on paper: 9. Ambulances that start: 6.

Posted 7 Jul 2026, 3:47 pm · 186 chars · rank #164

Found this out at 2am the hard way. 10 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.

Transformer blew 19 days ago. the pollution control board says 'no spare'.

Posted 24 Jun 2026, 11:12 pm · 183 chars · rank #165

8 days without a transformer in Ward 45. 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.

Government school here: 305 students, 5 teachers

Posted 28 Jun 2026, 9:12 pm · 141 chars · rank #166

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.

350 trees cut in Durgapur for a road that saves 7 minutes

Posted 1 Jul 2026, 5:54 pm · 147 chars · rank #167

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.

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

Posted 14 Jul 2026, 10:08 am · 169 chars · rank #168

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.

Compensatory plantation is 37km away on land nobody will water

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 7:10 pm · 196 chars · rank #169

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 21 days to not.

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

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 7:28 am · 169 chars · rank #170

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹24000 a month, 73 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

Road dug up 5 times in 7 months by 8 different departments

Posted 24 Jul 2026, 4:41 am · 201 chars · rank #171

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.

86 buses sanctioned for the route. 8 run.

Posted 9 Jun 2026, 1:38 pm · 179 chars · rank #172

33 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.

Eviction notice giving 20 days to 26 families

Posted 16 Jul 2026, 2:41 am · 164 chars · rank #173

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.

Showed up to the Ward 7 meeting 10 times. It's already different.

Posted 11 Jul 2026, 4:15 pm · 142 chars · rank #174

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.

43 buses sanctioned for the route. 6 run.

Posted 25 Jun 2026, 8:17 pm · 152 chars · rank #175

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.

AQI 'severe' for 13 straight days and schools stayed open

Posted 28 Jul 2026, 12:22 pm · 196 chars · rank #176

The impact assessment cites a survey from 11 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.

Ward 7 in Jalandhar: road 'completed' 21 months ago, still gravel

Posted 15 Jul 2026, 10:05 am · 170 chars · rank #177

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.

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

Posted 4 Jul 2026, 11:20 am · 175 chars · rank #178

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 5 times in 5 months by 8 different departments

Posted 13 Aug 2026, 10:24 pm · 198 chars · rank #179

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.

Eviction notice giving 15 days to 83 families

Posted 16 Jul 2026, 6:26 am · 185 chars · rank #180

10 days' notice for 67 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.

Road dug up 8 times in 22 months by 7 different departments

Posted 3 Jul 2026, 8:31 pm · 171 chars · rank #181

Everyone in Ward 45 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.

'Stipend' of ₹1800 for a 62-hour week is not a training role

Posted 18 Jul 2026, 12:27 am · 169 chars · rank #182

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹24000 a month, 37 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

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

Posted 26 Jun 2026, 1:39 am · 184 chars · rank #183

12 days' notice for 89 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 9km from every school those kids attend.

4 hours of load shedding a day in Shimoga and the bill went up 33%

Posted 11 Jul 2026, 1:43 am · 169 chars · rank #184

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 4 days, no reason given, no appeal that answers

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 8:44 pm · 168 chars · rank #185

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 14 days ago. the municipal corporation says 'no spare'.

Posted 29 Jul 2026, 8:07 am · 169 chars · rank #186

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.

Inaugurated in Thrissur, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 9 Jul 2026, 3:07 am · 187 chars · rank #187

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.

44 buses sanctioned for the route. 9 run.

Posted 12 Jun 2026, 8:41 pm · 179 chars · rank #188

61 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.

Fee hike of 48% and the same 9-year-old lab

Posted 16 Jul 2026, 10:44 pm · 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.

Transformer blew 3 days ago. the health department says 'no spare'.

Posted 27 Jun 2026, 11:15 pm · 183 chars · rank #190

8 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.

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

Posted 23 Jun 2026, 1:54 pm · 183 chars · rank #191

2 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.

Eviction notice giving 10 days to 24 families

Posted 18 Jun 2026, 7:53 am · 164 chars · rank #192

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 9 days ago. the water board says 'no spare'.

Posted 5 Jul 2026, 8:48 pm · 183 chars · rank #193

8 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.

Showed up to the Ward 18 meeting 9 times. It's already different.

Posted 10 Aug 2026, 8:16 pm · 185 chars · rank #194

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.

235 trees cut in Durgapur for a road that saves 5 minutes

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 12:24 am · 196 chars · rank #195

The impact assessment cites a survey from 15 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 14 days to not.

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

Posted 3 Jul 2026, 10:41 am · 207 chars · rank #196

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.

Data's been off 21 days here and the exam portal doesn't care

Posted 7 Jul 2026, 9:46 pm · 225 chars · rank #197

Day 20. 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

Exam postponed for the third time. That's 19 months of my life.

Posted 15 Jul 2026, 8:29 pm · 168 chars · rank #198

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹3500 a month, 46 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

Our school's science lab has been 'under renovation' for 15 months

Posted 23 Jun 2026, 11:10 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.

Metro extension announced for the third time

Posted 30 Jun 2026, 10:43 pm · 152 chars · rank #200

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

Showed up to the Ward 45 meeting 11 times. It's already different.

Posted 25 Jul 2026, 1:24 pm · 153 chars · rank #201

Every cycle designed to exhaust you succeeds the moment you quit. One issue, local if possible, for a year. Depth beats outrage volume every single time.

Compensatory plantation is 6km away on land nobody will water

Posted 12 Jul 2026, 1:00 am · 216 chars · rank #202

281 trees, forty years of canopy, for a rounding error in commute time. The compensatory plantation is 42km away in a different district on land nobody has budgeted to water. That's an accounting trick, not a forest.

Clearance granted in 20 days. Objections filed in that window: 5.

Posted 18 Jun 2026, 6:24 pm · 216 chars · rank #203

151 trees, forty years of canopy, for a rounding error in commute time. The compensatory plantation is 19km away in a different district on land nobody has budgeted to water. That's an accounting trick, not a forest.

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

Posted 26 Jun 2026, 4:06 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 51 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

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

Posted 16 Aug 2026, 3:30 am · 164 chars · rank #205

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

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 5:36 pm · 182 chars · rank #206

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 87 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Government school here: 208 students, 6 teachers

Posted 2 Aug 2026, 9:58 pm · 141 chars · rank #207

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 18 of no internet in Ludhiana. Nobody has given a reason.

Posted 18 Jul 2026, 6:38 am · 193 chars · rank #208

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.

Fee hike of 27% and the same 15-year-old lab

Posted 7 Jul 2026, 12:38 pm · 175 chars · rank #209

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.

Cleared the prelims 24 months ago. Still waiting on a mains date.

Posted 26 Jun 2026, 9:58 pm · 175 chars · rank #210

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.

329 trees cut in Salem for a road that saves 7 minutes

Posted 29 Jul 2026, 9:33 am · 195 chars · rank #211

The impact assessment cites a survey from 29 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 4 days to not.

Shutdown in Kolhapur: 285 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 15 Aug 2026, 7:30 am · 174 chars · rank #212

36 shopkeepers on our street take payment only by UPI. For 3 days that has meant nothing. Nobody will ever be invoiced for that loss and nobody has been told why it happened.

Fare up 19%, same 17-year-old buses

Posted 12 Aug 2026, 5:16 am · 179 chars · rank #213

30 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.

The vacancy list said 44. The joining list said 7.

Posted 17 Jun 2026, 7:55 pm · 213 chars · rank #214

423 applications, 4 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.

32 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 6 filled.

Posted 10 Jun 2026, 3:04 am · 135 chars · rank #215

23 sanctioned, 7 filled, and then we publish health outcome reports and act puzzled. Fund the posts or stop pretending the posts exist.

Transformer blew 16 days ago. the PWD office says 'no spare'.

Posted 7 Jul 2026, 9:47 am · 183 chars · rank #216

4 days without a transformer in Ward 38. 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.

31 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 20 Jun 2026, 9:15 am · 166 chars · rank #217

327 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.

89 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 16 Jun 2026, 6:47 pm · 166 chars · rank #218

286 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.

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

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 8:16 am · 175 chars · rank #219

44 shopkeepers on our street take payment only by UPI. For 16 days that has meant nothing. Nobody will ever be invoiced for that loss and nobody has been told why it happened.

Road dug up 5 times in 28 months by 4 different departments

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 6:06 pm · 194 chars · rank #220

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.

Exam postponed for the sixth time. That's 23 months of my life.

Posted 24 Jul 2026, 12:13 am · 168 chars · rank #221

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹2400 a month, 73 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

Government school here: 304 students, 2 teachers

Posted 12 Aug 2026, 4:21 pm · 141 chars · rank #222

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.

Transformer blew 7 days ago. the electricity board says 'no spare'.

Posted 6 Jul 2026, 5:24 am · 183 chars · rank #223

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.

Clearance granted in 7 days. Objections filed in that window: 8.

Posted 13 Jul 2026, 9:40 am · 196 chars · rank #224

The impact assessment cites a survey from 12 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 20 days to not.

Ward 3 in Patna: road 'completed' 8 months ago, still gravel

Posted 30 Jul 2026, 8:25 am · 187 chars · rank #225

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.

Data's been off 3 days here and the exam portal doesn't care

Posted 31 Jul 2026, 3:44 pm · 213 chars · rank #226

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.

Potholes counted on my commute this morning: 57

Posted 12 Jun 2026, 9:46 pm · 185 chars · rank #227