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7 hours of load shedding a day in Cuttack and the bill went up 39%

Posted 24 Mar 2026, 9:53 pm · 183 chars · rank #1

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

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

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 9:46 pm · 198 chars · rank #2

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.

Got a takedown notice for a 25-month-old post

Posted 27 Mar 2026, 12:46 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.

Fare up 33%, same 26-year-old buses

Posted 4 Jun 2026, 11:46 pm · 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.

32 buses sanctioned for the route. 4 run.

Posted 8 Jun 2026, 2:44 am · 152 chars · rank #5

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.

Ward 38 has had water for 2 hours in 16 days

Posted 18 Jun 2026, 4:05 am · 175 chars · rank #6

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.

Recruitment notice from 28 months ago and still no exam date

Posted 7 May 2026, 4:32 am · 175 chars · rank #7

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.

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

Posted 4 May 2026, 3:56 am · 174 chars · rank #8

29 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.

26 buses sanctioned for the route. 4 run.

Posted 4 Jun 2026, 6:09 am · 152 chars · rank #9

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

5 hours of load shedding a day in Ludhiana and the bill went up 46%

Posted 10 Apr 2026, 2:52 pm · 183 chars · rank #10

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.

Ward 9 has had water for 8 hours in 3 days

Posted 10 Apr 2026, 2:24 pm · 189 chars · rank #11

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.

Fare up 33%, same 24-year-old buses

Posted 11 May 2026, 11:46 am · 179 chars · rank #12

67 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.

19 buses sanctioned for the route. 2 run.

Posted 20 Apr 2026, 8:30 am · 179 chars · rank #13

34 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.

Recruitment notice from 20 months ago and still no exam date

Posted 31 Mar 2026, 2:24 pm · 145 chars · rank #14

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.

Rent up 43% in Rourkela. Salaries up 4%.

Posted 26 Apr 2026, 3:33 am · 182 chars · rank #15

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 88 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Showed up to the Ward 5 meeting 3 times. It's already different.

Posted 25 Mar 2026, 5:48 pm · 185 chars · rank #16

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.

Compensatory plantation is 43km away on land nobody will water

Posted 14 May 2026, 1:16 am · 196 chars · rank #17

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 17 days to not.

Showed up to the Ward 9 meeting 6 times. It's already different.

Posted 2 Jun 2026, 5:13 am · 185 chars · rank #18

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.

Compensatory plantation is 34km away on land nobody will water

Posted 6 May 2026, 5:17 pm · 147 chars · rank #19

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.

90 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 4 filled.

Posted 17 Aug 2026, 6:46 am · 151 chars · rank #20

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.

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

Posted 27 Apr 2026, 8:43 am · 188 chars · rank #21

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.

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

Posted 9 Apr 2026, 5:00 pm · 194 chars · rank #22

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.

Government school here: 322 students, 5 teachers

Posted 3 May 2026, 8:05 am · 176 chars · rank #23

A 35% hike, the same lab, the same broken projector, and a circular explaining that quality has been enhanced. Show me the spend, line by line, and I'll withdraw the complaint.

Fee hike of 20% and the same 4-year-old lab

Posted 29 Mar 2026, 4:36 am · 141 chars · rank #24

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

Last bus at 8pm in a city that works till midnight

Posted 22 Jun 2026, 5:51 am · 152 chars · rank #25

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.

Groundwater down 12 metres in a decade. New approval granted anyway.

Posted 31 Mar 2026, 6:53 pm · 175 chars · rank #26

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.

41 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 11 May 2026, 8:39 pm · 141 chars · rank #27

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.

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

Posted 23 Apr 2026, 8:03 am · 147 chars · rank #28

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.

'Stipend' of ₹8000 for a 88-hour week is not a training role

Posted 20 Apr 2026, 5:21 am · 168 chars · rank #29

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹1800 a month, 35 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

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

Posted 23 Apr 2026, 3:50 am · 184 chars · rank #30

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.

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

Posted 25 Jun 2026, 10:02 am · 189 chars · rank #31

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.

48 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 17 Apr 2026, 2:41 am · 166 chars · rank #32

301 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.

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

Posted 27 Mar 2026, 9:17 pm · 198 chars · rank #33

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.

The vacancy list said 40. The joining list said 2.

Posted 5 May 2026, 3:46 am · 175 chars · rank #34

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.

64 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 6 filled.

Posted 11 May 2026, 6:30 am · 178 chars · rank #35

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.

231 applications. 9 replies. One of them wanted money.

Posted 30 May 2026, 8:45 pm · 169 chars · rank #36

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹24000 a month, 63 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

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

Posted 19 May 2026, 10:42 pm · 184 chars · rank #37

Statutory timeline is 30 days. Actual: 6 months and counting. There's a penalty provision for this. It is essentially never applied, which is why the timeline is essentially never met.

'Stipend' of ₹12000 for a 73-hour week is not a training role

Posted 18 Apr 2026, 9:24 am · 214 chars · rank #38

219 applications, 6 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.

Fare up 29%, same 17-year-old buses

Posted 22 May 2026, 7:07 pm · 179 chars · rank #39

30 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.

Ward 9 in Tirupati: road 'completed' 8 months ago, still gravel

Posted 11 Apr 2026, 7:23 am · 168 chars · rank #40

8 times in 9 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.

The vacancy list said 85. The joining list said 4.

Posted 5 May 2026, 4:05 pm · 213 chars · rank #41

403 applications, 4 replies, one outright scam that wanted ₹2400 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.

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

Posted 1 Apr 2026, 12:13 pm · 224 chars · rank #42

Day 8. 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

AQI 'severe' for 4 straight days and schools stayed open

Posted 1 Apr 2026, 10:11 am · 147 chars · rank #43

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.

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

Posted 23 Mar 2026, 7:21 am · 164 chars · rank #44

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 37% in Muzaffarpur. Salaries up 7%.

Posted 3 Apr 2026, 3:43 pm · 185 chars · rank #45

10 days' notice for 33 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.

Ward 5 in Bhagalpur: road 'completed' 28 months ago, still gravel

Posted 21 Apr 2026, 7:14 am · 169 chars · rank #46

5 times in 11 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.

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

Posted 30 Apr 2026, 5:16 pm · 184 chars · rank #47

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.

Eviction notice giving 6 days to 85 families

Posted 14 Apr 2026, 9:41 pm · 185 chars · rank #48

19 days' notice for 52 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 32km from every school those kids attend.

The vacancy list said 30. The joining list said 7.

Posted 6 May 2026, 4:12 pm · 145 chars · rank #49

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 30 months.

Government school here: 297 students, 7 teachers

Posted 10 Apr 2026, 8:44 pm · 176 chars · rank #50

A 31% 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.

Inaugurated in Tirupati, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 22 May 2026, 8:47 pm · 185 chars · rank #51

Ribbon, garlands, a hoarding with four faces on it, and 22 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 9 meeting 3 times. It's already different.

Posted 29 Jun 2026, 9:07 am · 208 chars · rank #52

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.

Fare up 25%, same 11-year-old buses

Posted 2 May 2026, 2:18 pm · 152 chars · rank #53

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.

53 buses sanctioned for the route. 6 run.

Posted 13 Jun 2026, 8:59 am · 152 chars · rank #54

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

Ward 32 in Vijayawada: road 'completed' 5 months ago, still gravel

Posted 15 May 2026, 1:16 pm · 184 chars · rank #55

Ribbon, garlands, a hoarding with four faces on it, and 5 months later there's a trench where the road should be. The hoarding is in perfect condition. The contractor's number is dead.

79 buses sanctioned for the route. 2 run.

Posted 25 Apr 2026, 1:04 pm · 152 chars · rank #56

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

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

Posted 28 Apr 2026, 6:32 pm · 189 chars · rank #57

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.

Rent up 45% in Vijayawada. Salaries up 7%.

Posted 5 May 2026, 5:46 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 13%, same 9-year-old buses

Posted 28 Apr 2026, 3:51 pm · 152 chars · rank #59

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

Waited 7 hours in a district hospital corridor last night

Posted 18 Apr 2026, 8:57 pm · 178 chars · rank #60

The scheme is real, the empanelment is real, and the bill was still ₹12000 in 'consumables'. Either fund the reimbursement properly or stop putting the scheme's name on the gate.

Fee hike of 35% and the same 26-year-old lab

Posted 24 Mar 2026, 10:53 am · 175 chars · rank #61

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 18 meeting 5 times. It's already different.

Posted 8 Jun 2026, 1:11 pm · 142 chars · rank #62

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.

177 trees cut in Bhagalpur for a road that saves 3 minutes

Posted 3 Aug 2026, 12:17 pm · 195 chars · rank #63

The impact assessment cites a survey from 9 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 18 days to not.

Showed up to the Ward 5 meeting 14 times. It's already different.

Posted 17 May 2026, 1:35 am · 142 chars · rank #64

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.

Eviction notice giving 15 days to 56 families

Posted 6 May 2026, 10:54 am · 182 chars · rank #65

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 36 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

166 applications. 3 replies. One of them wanted money.

Posted 12 May 2026, 9:57 pm · 175 chars · rank #66

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.

Ambulance fleet on paper: 12. Ambulances that start: 3.

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 6:03 am · 151 chars · rank #67

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.

Rent up 14% in Kochi. Salaries up 3%.

Posted 26 May 2026, 10:19 pm · 185 chars · rank #68

12 days' notice for 35 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 11km from every school those kids attend.

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

Posted 27 Mar 2026, 10:12 pm · 161 chars · rank #69

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.

Clearance granted in 9 days. Objections filed in that window: 7.

Posted 10 Jun 2026, 9:10 pm · 147 chars · rank #70

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.

87 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 5 Jul 2026, 10:39 am · 166 chars · rank #71

284 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.

Shutdown in Salem: 327 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 25 Apr 2026, 2:25 am · 175 chars · rank #72

88 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.

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

Posted 8 May 2026, 1:17 pm · 183 chars · rank #73

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

Showed up to the Ward 14 meeting 8 times. It's already different.

Posted 21 Apr 2026, 1:55 pm · 208 chars · rank #74

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.

Fee hike of 28% and the same 10-year-old lab

Posted 2 Jun 2026, 2:57 pm · 166 chars · rank #75

384 kids, 7 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.

90 buses sanctioned for the route. 3 run.

Posted 26 May 2026, 3:41 am · 152 chars · rank #76

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 Kochi: 269 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 18 Aug 2026, 9:48 pm · 211 chars · rank #77

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.

Day 19 of no internet in Bhagalpur. Nobody has given a reason.

Posted 26 Jun 2026, 9:55 am · 174 chars · rank #78

70 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.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 9pm. Nearest hospital is 34km.

Posted 23 Mar 2026, 5:28 pm · 186 chars · rank #79

Found this out at 2am the hard way. 16 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.

Government school here: 379 students, 7 teachers

Posted 27 Apr 2026, 9:11 pm · 175 chars · rank #80

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.

26 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 11 Apr 2026, 1:37 am · 141 chars · rank #81

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.

25 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 9 filled.

Posted 21 May 2026, 9:08 pm · 151 chars · rank #82

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.

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

Posted 29 May 2026, 5:50 am · 214 chars · rank #83

364 applications, 14 replies, one outright scam that wanted ₹2400 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 37% and the same 18-year-old lab

Posted 14 May 2026, 5:08 am · 166 chars · rank #84

168 kids, 5 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.

303 applications. 3 replies. One of them wanted money.

Posted 26 Apr 2026, 7:52 pm · 188 chars · rank #85

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.

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

Posted 9 Apr 2026, 8:34 pm · 184 chars · rank #86

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 11 in Muzaffarpur: road 'completed' 17 months ago, still gravel

Posted 3 May 2026, 2:22 am · 185 chars · rank #87

Ribbon, garlands, a hoarding with four faces on it, and 29 months later there's a trench where the road should be. The hoarding is in perfect condition. The contractor's number is dead.

Compensatory plantation is 38km away on land nobody will water

Posted 6 May 2026, 12:29 pm · 145 chars · rank #88

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

Compensatory plantation is 36km away on land nobody will water

Posted 19 Apr 2026, 8:31 am · 147 chars · rank #89

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.

Ward 7 in Surat: road 'completed' 13 months ago, still gravel

Posted 30 Mar 2026, 9:07 pm · 170 chars · rank #90

Everyone in Ward 5 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 Jalandhar is just the water board outsourcing its job

Posted 30 Mar 2026, 4:28 pm · 184 chars · rank #91

2 hours of supply in 9 days, and the tanker that fills the gap costs ₹18000 a trip. We are paying twice — once in tax for a service that doesn't arrive, once in cash for one that does.

Tender awarded 10 days after the notice went up

Posted 9 Apr 2026, 4:38 am · 189 chars · rank #92

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.

Got a takedown notice for a 6-month-old post

Posted 29 Jun 2026, 2:02 am · 171 chars · rank #93

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.

Fee hike of 34% and the same 23-year-old lab

Posted 11 Apr 2026, 1:22 pm · 176 chars · rank #94

A 16% 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.

205 applications. 3 replies. One of them wanted money.

Posted 18 Apr 2026, 2:47 am · 145 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 27 months.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 7pm. Nearest hospital is 3km.

Posted 23 May 2026, 11:58 am · 185 chars · rank #96

Found this out at 2am the hard way. 9 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.

Tender awarded 12 days after the notice went up

Posted 8 May 2026, 5:53 pm · 189 chars · rank #97

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.

Showed up to the Ward 38 meeting 7 times. It's already different.

Posted 6 Aug 2026, 2:34 am · 208 chars · rank #98

Physical letter, one page, one question, polite. Took 9 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.

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

Posted 25 Mar 2026, 5:07 am · 184 chars · rank #99

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.

Clearance granted in 17 days. Objections filed in that window: 7.

Posted 9 Apr 2026, 12:20 pm · 216 chars · rank #100

346 trees, forty years of canopy, for a rounding error in commute time. The compensatory plantation is 32km away in a different district on land nobody has budgeted to water. That's an accounting trick, not a forest.

Recruitment notice from 6 months ago and still no exam date

Posted 20 Jul 2026, 3:39 pm · 145 chars · rank #101

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 20 months.

The PIO post has been vacant for 8 months. Convenient.

Posted 26 Mar 2026, 6:42 am · 198 chars · rank #102

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.

Fare up 22%, same 30-year-old buses

Posted 8 Apr 2026, 7:06 am · 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.

Rent up 38% in Dehradun. Salaries up 4%.

Posted 14 Apr 2026, 8:19 pm · 182 chars · rank #104

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 77 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

Ward 21 in Kochi: road 'completed' 19 months ago, still gravel

Posted 9 Jun 2026, 2:17 pm · 169 chars · rank #105

4 times in 29 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 19%, same 9-year-old buses

Posted 18 Apr 2026, 2:26 am · 152 chars · rank #106

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

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

Posted 12 May 2026, 10:57 pm · 185 chars · rank #107

Statutory timeline is 30 days. Actual: 11 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 18 meeting 8 times. It's already different.

Posted 31 Mar 2026, 12:14 pm · 153 chars · rank #108

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.

Government school here: 136 students, 5 teachers

Posted 30 Mar 2026, 10:33 pm · 176 chars · rank #109

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.

Showed up to the Ward 45 meeting 8 times. It's already different.

Posted 23 Mar 2026, 7:07 am · 185 chars · rank #110

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.

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

Posted 19 Apr 2026, 7:44 am · 185 chars · rank #111

11 days' notice for 52 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 26km from every school those kids attend.

Road dug up 3 times in 12 months by 2 different departments

Posted 11 May 2026, 3:01 am · 195 chars · rank #112

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.

Water bill arrived. Water did not.

Posted 29 Apr 2026, 5:16 am · 179 chars · rank #113

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

Groundwater down 7 metres in a decade. New approval granted anyway.

Posted 21 May 2026, 8:04 pm · 189 chars · rank #114

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

81 buses sanctioned for the route. 8 run.

Posted 2 Jun 2026, 5:17 pm · 179 chars · rank #115

21 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.

5 hours of load shedding a day in Bhagalpur and the bill went up 31%

Posted 7 Apr 2026, 3:03 am · 183 chars · rank #116

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

42 buses sanctioned for the route. 8 run.

Posted 10 Apr 2026, 8:24 am · 152 chars · rank #117

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

'Stipend' of ₹3500 for a 50-hour week is not a training role

Posted 16 May 2026, 4:06 pm · 168 chars · rank #118

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹1800 a month, 23 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

Compensatory plantation is 14km away on land nobody will water

Posted 8 May 2026, 10:11 am · 147 chars · rank #119

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.

Compensatory plantation is 8km away on land nobody will water

Posted 14 Aug 2026, 6:42 pm · 145 chars · rank #120

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 7 days ago. the pollution control board says 'no spare'.

Posted 15 May 2026, 9:20 am · 184 chars · rank #121

16 days without a transformer in Ward 32. 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.

Fare up 18%, same 21-year-old buses

Posted 11 May 2026, 8:10 am · 179 chars · rank #122

63 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.

Road dug up 4 times in 22 months by 5 different departments

Posted 8 Jun 2026, 9:54 pm · 195 chars · rank #123

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.

Compensatory plantation is 33km away on land nobody will water

Posted 10 Apr 2026, 7:47 pm · 215 chars · rank #124

212 trees, forty years of canopy, for a rounding error in commute time. The compensatory plantation is 3km away in a different district on land nobody has budgeted to water. That's an accounting trick, not a forest.

Fee hike of 44% and the same 25-year-old lab

Posted 14 Aug 2026, 1:01 pm · 175 chars · rank #125

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.

Next hearing scheduled 22 months out. The wall is already built.

Posted 28 Apr 2026, 5:56 pm · 164 chars · rank #126

Out after 8 hours with nothing on paper. When there's no charge there's also no case to fight, which is exactly why it works as a warning rather than a prosecution.

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

Posted 27 Jul 2026, 7:56 am · 225 chars · rank #127

Day 21. Students can't upload assignments, the ration shop's biometric machine is a paperweight, and every UPI-only vendor in the market has gone back to a diary. The order hasn't been published anywhere I can find. #KeepItOn

Ward 32 has had water for 7 hours in 4 days

Posted 21 May 2026, 7:52 pm · 179 chars · rank #128

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

The vacancy list said 27. The joining list said 2.

Posted 12 Apr 2026, 10:29 pm · 188 chars · rank #129

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.

Potholes counted on my commute this morning: 36

Posted 21 May 2026, 5:04 pm · 169 chars · rank #130

2 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.

67 buses sanctioned for the route. 3 run.

Posted 16 Apr 2026, 1:26 pm · 179 chars · rank #131

18 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.

Ward 18 has had water for 2 hours in 11 days

Posted 23 Apr 2026, 8:02 pm · 186 chars · rank #132

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

Power cut every evening at exactly the same time, officially not happening

Posted 27 Apr 2026, 3:33 am · 169 chars · rank #133

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 24% and the same 7-year-old lab

Posted 24 Mar 2026, 9:20 pm · 166 chars · rank #134

463 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.

Road dug up 4 times in 8 months by 2 different departments

Posted 15 Apr 2026, 1:43 am · 170 chars · rank #135

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.

Fee hike of 29% and the same 26-year-old lab

Posted 4 Jul 2026, 11:01 pm · 176 chars · rank #136

A 30% 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.

Day 16 of no internet in Solapur. Nobody has given a reason.

Posted 31 Mar 2026, 1:53 am · 194 chars · rank #137

Ambulances here run on phone calls. For 17 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.

78 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 8 filled.

Posted 7 Aug 2026, 1:54 am · 151 chars · rank #138

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.

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

Posted 18 Apr 2026, 9:44 am · 185 chars · rank #139

18 days' notice for 33 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 24km from every school those kids attend.

125 trees cut in Jodhpur for a road that saves 9 minutes

Posted 10 Apr 2026, 11:58 am · 194 chars · rank #140

The impact assessment cites a survey from 4 months ago and a species list that is wrong about this district. It took me an afternoon to find that. It apparently took the committee 5 days to not.

Road dug up 6 times in 22 months by 5 different departments

Posted 14 Apr 2026, 4:24 am · 184 chars · rank #141

Ribbon, garlands, a hoarding with four faces on it, and 7 months later there's a trench where the road should be. The hoarding is in perfect condition. The contractor's number is dead.

Data's been off 18 days here and the exam portal doesn't care

Posted 23 May 2026, 7:28 pm · 174 chars · rank #142

60 shopkeepers on our street take payment only by UPI. For 8 days that has meant nothing. Nobody will ever be invoiced for that loss and nobody has been told why it happened.

Government school here: 287 students, 8 teachers

Posted 10 May 2026, 8:29 pm · 175 chars · rank #143

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.

44 buses sanctioned for the route. 6 run.

Posted 17 Apr 2026, 2:27 am · 152 chars · rank #144

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 Jamshedpur: 128 small businesses, one festive season, zero compensation

Posted 20 Apr 2026, 4:54 am · 201 chars · rank #145

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

Next hearing scheduled 28 months out. The wall is already built.

Posted 8 Apr 2026, 12:38 pm · 155 chars · rank #146

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

Government school here: 410 students, 6 teachers

Posted 28 Mar 2026, 9:50 am · 141 chars · rank #147

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 13 days ago. the pollution control board says 'no spare'.

Posted 1 May 2026, 5:49 am · 190 chars · rank #148

11 days without a transformer in Ward 3. 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.

Our school's science lab has been 'under renovation' for 25 months

Posted 31 Mar 2026, 7:21 am · 141 chars · rank #149

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.

Road dug up 3 times in 4 months by 7 different departments

Posted 19 Apr 2026, 4:50 am · 171 chars · rank #150

Everyone in Ward 11 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 ₹8000 for a 68-hour week is not a training role

Posted 26 May 2026, 4:17 am · 213 chars · rank #151

199 applications, 5 replies, one outright scam that wanted ₹5000 for 'onboarding'. I'm posting the raw count because everyone I know is going through this quietly and concluding it's a personal failure. It is not.

Rent up 39% in Bilaspur. Salaries up 3%.

Posted 4 May 2026, 1:49 pm · 182 chars · rank #152

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.

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

Posted 21 May 2026, 9:33 am · 192 chars · rank #153

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.

73 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 30 Apr 2026, 7:31 am · 175 chars · rank #154

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.

Ward 21 has had water for 8 hours in 12 days

Posted 1 Apr 2026, 11:59 pm · 175 chars · rank #155

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.

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

Posted 3 May 2026, 3:33 am · 193 chars · rank #156

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.

Ward 32 in Ranchi: road 'completed' 28 months ago, still gravel

Posted 3 May 2026, 3:27 am · 195 chars · rank #157

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.

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

Posted 24 Mar 2026, 11:29 pm · 175 chars · rank #158

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.

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

Posted 19 May 2026, 8:13 pm · 188 chars · rank #159

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

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

Posted 19 May 2026, 4:31 pm · 188 chars · rank #160

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.

Ward 45 has had water for 5 hours in 15 days

Posted 16 Apr 2026, 9:11 am · 175 chars · rank #161

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.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 5pm. Nearest hospital is 31km.

Posted 21 Jun 2026, 2:24 am · 186 chars · rank #162

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

The vacancy list said 50. The joining list said 7.

Posted 20 Apr 2026, 4:09 am · 145 chars · rank #163

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 20 months.

Road dug up 7 times in 24 months by 2 different departments

Posted 10 May 2026, 6:11 am · 168 chars · rank #164

9 times in 7 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.

Ward 3 has had water for 2 hours in 16 days

Posted 11 Apr 2026, 1:54 pm · 180 chars · rank #165

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

57 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 2 filled.

Posted 7 Apr 2026, 3:50 pm · 177 chars · rank #166

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.

Road dug up 8 times in 18 months by 6 different departments

Posted 26 Mar 2026, 11:23 pm · 171 chars · rank #167

Everyone in Ward 38 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 ₹3500 for a 77-hour week is not a training role

Posted 26 Mar 2026, 3:15 pm · 213 chars · rank #168

319 applications, 3 replies, one outright scam that wanted ₹3500 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.

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

Posted 27 Apr 2026, 1:00 am · 208 chars · rank #169

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.

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

Posted 18 May 2026, 5:55 am · 211 chars · rank #170

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.

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

Posted 9 Apr 2026, 9:29 pm · 182 chars · rank #171

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 65 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

'Stipend' of ₹8000 for a 89-hour week is not a training role

Posted 21 Apr 2026, 10:36 pm · 175 chars · rank #172

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 23 months out. The wall is already built.

Posted 8 May 2026, 9:52 am · 168 chars · rank #173

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

Government school here: 474 students, 5 teachers

Posted 5 Apr 2026, 5:54 am · 175 chars · rank #174

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.

Metro extension announced for the fourth time

Posted 31 Mar 2026, 2:49 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.

252 trees cut in Indore for a road that saves 6 minutes

Posted 20 May 2026, 12:39 pm · 147 chars · rank #176

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.

213 trees cut in Bhagalpur for a road that saves 9 minutes

Posted 3 Apr 2026, 5:45 pm · 147 chars · rank #177

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.

Ambulance fleet on paper: 14. Ambulances that start: 4.

Posted 2 Apr 2026, 7:35 pm · 151 chars · rank #178

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.

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

Posted 10 Apr 2026, 7:31 am · 182 chars · rank #179

The Street Vendors Act says survey first, notice first, rehabilitation first. None of that happened — just 6am and a bulldozer and 20 livelihoods gone for a footpath nobody walks on.

39 schools in the district have no working toilet

Posted 5 May 2026, 6:18 am · 166 chars · rank #180

405 kids, 7 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.

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

Posted 27 May 2026, 4:29 pm · 185 chars · rank #181

Ribbon, garlands, a hoarding with four faces on it, and 23 months later there's a trench where the road should be. The hoarding is in perfect condition. The contractor's number is dead.

Wrote to my MP. Got an actual answer. Still recovering.

Posted 23 Mar 2026, 9:26 pm · 185 chars · rank #182

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.

Eviction notice giving 16 days to 39 families

Posted 17 Apr 2026, 4:31 am · 185 chars · rank #183

17 days' notice for 44 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 15km from every school those kids attend.

Rent up 22% in Bilaspur. Salaries up 7%.

Posted 8 Apr 2026, 5:23 pm · 185 chars · rank #184

13 days' notice for 75 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 20km from every school those kids attend.

Rent up 21% in Kozhikode. Salaries up 2%.

Posted 8 Apr 2026, 7:44 am · 182 chars · rank #185

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.

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

Posted 8 Aug 2026, 9:53 am · 164 chars · rank #186

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

Eviction notice giving 3 days to 71 families

Posted 11 Apr 2026, 8:55 am · 164 chars · rank #187

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.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 4pm. Nearest hospital is 20km.

Posted 19 Apr 2026, 2:08 pm · 151 chars · rank #188

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.

Cleared the prelims 30 months ago. Still waiting on a mains date.

Posted 14 Jun 2026, 4:18 pm · 145 chars · rank #189

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.

Fare up 34%, same 24-year-old buses

Posted 6 May 2026, 9:25 am · 152 chars · rank #190

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 17% and the same 26-year-old lab

Posted 13 Apr 2026, 8:56 pm · 141 chars · rank #191

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.

Our school's science lab has been 'under renovation' for 16 months

Posted 9 Apr 2026, 10:35 am · 166 chars · rank #192

453 kids, 5 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.

The regional daily broke this 18 days before the national channels

Posted 27 Mar 2026, 6:21 am · 147 chars · rank #193

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

Clearance granted in 12 days. Objections filed in that window: 4.

Posted 13 Apr 2026, 12:38 am · 216 chars · rank #194

295 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.

65 buses sanctioned for the route. 8 run.

Posted 26 Apr 2026, 4:06 am · 152 chars · rank #195

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.

Ward 45 in Jodhpur: road 'completed' 15 months ago, still gravel

Posted 4 Apr 2026, 7:28 am · 195 chars · rank #196

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.

Road dug up 4 times in 28 months by 3 different departments

Posted 15 Apr 2026, 11:44 pm · 195 chars · rank #197

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.

62 buses sanctioned for the route. 4 run.

Posted 20 Apr 2026, 9:33 am · 152 chars · rank #198

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

375 trees cut in Aligarh for a road that saves 6 minutes

Posted 3 May 2026, 7:33 am · 147 chars · rank #199

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.

Eviction notice giving 6 days to 37 families

Posted 1 Apr 2026, 8:05 am · 184 chars · rank #200

9 days' notice for 36 families, most of whom have lived there longer than the department evicting them has existed. The rehabilitation site is 36km from every school those kids attend.

135 trees cut in Thrissur for a road that saves 4 minutes

Posted 16 Apr 2026, 6:06 pm · 196 chars · rank #201

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 12 days to not.

Eviction notice giving 17 days to 64 families

Posted 16 Apr 2026, 12:51 pm · 164 chars · rank #202

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.

Eviction notice giving 21 days to 46 families

Posted 5 May 2026, 5:47 am · 164 chars · rank #203

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 9 has had water for 8 hours in 16 days

Posted 28 Jul 2026, 11:13 pm · 183 chars · rank #204

8 hours of supply in 3 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.

The regional daily broke this 7 days before the national channels

Posted 4 May 2026, 3:48 pm · 172 chars · rank #205

Nobody completed a sentence in 85 minutes. The format isn't broken — it works perfectly. It produces heat, sells ads and settles nothing. Mute it and read the actual order.

The vacancy list said 42. The joining list said 7.

Posted 6 Apr 2026, 12:27 pm · 145 chars · rank #206

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.

Fare up 26%, same 23-year-old buses

Posted 6 Apr 2026, 7:45 am · 152 chars · rank #207

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 Gorakhpur, then abandoned. Photos from today.

Posted 29 Apr 2026, 6:15 am · 171 chars · rank #208

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

286 applications. 14 replies. One of them wanted money.

Posted 19 Apr 2026, 5:36 pm · 175 chars · rank #209

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.

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

Posted 12 Aug 2026, 11:17 am · 164 chars · rank #210

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.

253 trees cut in Solapur for a road that saves 9 minutes

Posted 9 Apr 2026, 4:31 am · 196 chars · rank #211

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 14 days to not.

4 hours of load shedding a day in Jamshedpur and the bill went up 25%

Posted 2 May 2026, 5:09 pm · 169 chars · rank #212

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.

Our school's science lab has been 'under renovation' for 22 months

Posted 12 Aug 2026, 1:24 am · 175 chars · rank #213

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.

Government school here: 253 students, 8 teachers

Posted 11 Aug 2026, 10:22 pm · 141 chars · rank #214

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 14 days ago. the district collectorate says 'no spare'.

Posted 12 May 2026, 5:27 am · 169 chars · rank #215

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.

44 sanctioned posts at the district hospital. 8 filled.

Posted 3 Apr 2026, 10:00 pm · 177 chars · rank #216

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.

67 buses sanctioned for the route. 2 run.

Posted 13 Jul 2026, 9:26 pm · 179 chars · rank #217

85 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.

Fee hike of 32% and the same 22-year-old lab

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 11:44 pm · 176 chars · rank #218

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.

6 hours of load shedding a day in Siliguri and the bill went up 21%

Posted 1 Jun 2026, 4:42 am · 169 chars · rank #219

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.

Exam postponed for the second time. That's 27 months of my life.

Posted 30 Apr 2026, 11:51 am · 168 chars · rank #220

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹8000 a month, 63 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

PHC in our block has no doctor after 7pm. Nearest hospital is 14km.

Posted 30 Apr 2026, 6:49 am · 135 chars · rank #221

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

Road dug up 2 times in 18 months by 8 different departments

Posted 19 Aug 2026, 3:06 pm · 185 chars · rank #222

Ribbon, garlands, a hoarding with four faces on it, and 12 months later there's a trench where the road should be. The hoarding is in perfect condition. The contractor's number is dead.

The PIO post has been vacant for 17 months. Convenient.

Posted 10 Apr 2026, 10:27 pm · 189 chars · rank #223

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.

Cleared the prelims 9 months ago. Still waiting on a mains date.

Posted 20 Apr 2026, 3:05 am · 168 chars · rank #224

It's not an internship if it's the whole job with the title removed. ₹1800 a month, 47 hours a week, and 'great exposure'. The exposure on offer is to rent I can't pay.

258 trees cut in Bhagalpur for a road that saves 4 minutes

Posted 20 Apr 2026, 1:47 am · 147 chars · rank #225

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.

9 hours of load shedding a day in Siliguri and the bill went up 40%

Posted 11 Jun 2026, 1:10 pm · 183 chars · rank #226

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.

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

Posted 14 Apr 2026, 10:29 pm · 189 chars · rank #227