violation ← Gray Face of India

Bribing Traffic Inspector and our Video recordings 1

Jun

5

2015

We parked our Tata Magic vehicle near Kandasamy Temple, Broadway. The vehicle belongs to the NGO Chennai Social Service. We were doing some purchases for a Sapling plantation event at Uthandi, ECR the next day. When we returned back to the vehicle, we found that the vehicle is wheel locked. Constable was standing there and asked us driving license and insurance. We showed ...

2015 – Q1 Report 1

Apr

4

2015

RTI to followup on our previous traffic complaints To follow up on our complaints given on Traffic violators, we filed a RTI last year, enquiring on the status of the complaints. We got a response from saidapet and guindy Inspectors that Action has been taken on our complaints and reports sent to their higher authority. It ...

Traffic Violation Portal – Vision Zero for India

Jul

16

2014

To take forward our previous attempts at fixing Traffic violations, we came up with a comprehensive IT solution, a web portal to track Traffic Violations and crowdsource the process of taking violation videos and analyzing them. The portal is not just about this, but something much more significant. Maybe this portal will pave a way to realize one ...

Restoration of Adyar and Cooum Rivers Part 6

Jul

14

2014

Its been more than 6 months since we filed complaints to 10 departments on the sad state of Adyar and Cooum Rivers. We didn’t hear from even one of the department regarding our Complaint, which is expected. So we filed our second set of RTIs, to enquire into the status of our complaints. Some of ...

Restoration of Adyar and Cooum Rivers Part 5

Jul

1

2013

We filed 10 complaints and 7 RTIs to various departments concerning the maintenance and monitoring of the river. And as expected, the RTIs were not answered in 30 days. But the authorities played football with our RTIs forwarding them indefinitely to other departments, other officials, trying to evade from our sharp questions, ignoring ...

Restoration of Adyar and Cooum Rivers Part 4

Jul

1

2013

Initially we sent 7 RTI to the Chief PIOs in concerned departments in the month of February, 2013. Its been around 5 months now, but still we are struggling to get all the necessary information that we aimed for. The 7 RTI got split into several as the Chief PIOs of all departments forwarded it ...

An attempt to Fix Traffic Violations – April, May and June 12

May

18

2013

When asked about Traffic Signals, people of India will chorously shout We don’t wait for the Green light. We go at Amber. Or even at Red most of the times. There is no such thing as “No Entry”. Whether we enter or not depends on the presence of a cop. Helmet? Why should I wear ...

Construction of Yaga Gundas for Religious Ceremony @ West Saidapet

Feb

6

2013

Constructions of Yaga Kundas are made in a street in Saidapet by Temple Authorities to perform a Hindu Religious Ceremony. The full width of the street has been completely blocked for over a week (last week of January, 2013). Worst thing is the whole ceremony is happening under the supervision of Police from local R6 ...

MTC Bus Operation 1

Jan

24

2013

Another regular complaint that people of India daily faces. Public Transport Bus not stopping at right stops Its Bus D70, which is supposed to stop at Kasi theatre Stop, Ashok Pillar, Chennai. Even Ticket was issued with Kasi Theatre printed on it. But the driver crossed the bus stop without stopping there. When our volunteer ...

Road Vehicle Pollution, Signal Violations 1

Jan

10

2013

An RTI has been sent to Chennai Traffic Police to enquire on Vehicular Pollution, Sign Board and the status of various complaints (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) made on Chennai Traffic Police Facebook Fan Page on Jan, 2013 Thought the authorities were reluctant to give the answers initially, they replied back after applying First ...