Questions of design at odi sub landboard offices
Monday, February 24, 2014
The Board meeting room was spacious and airy and, for once, vinyl tiles had been used throughout the building instead of the usual ceramic tiles.
The clinching argument in favour of vinyl tiles is that they can take hard wear, and even when cracked and damaged can still appear reasonably okay whereas cracked and damaged ceramic tiles invariably look grotty in the extreme. On the other hand, it was surprising to see that numbers of tiles had already fallen off the kitchen wall and that staff had been obliged to place filing cabinets in the narrow passage which gives access to their offices.
The BDP as a party known to have ample resources has always held its primaries well in time, but this time around that was not the case. The first leg of the primaries was held last weekend, with the final leg being billed for the coming weekend. This time around, the BDP failed to shine in its primary elections. The elections were chaotic; most if not all polling stations didn't open at the specified time of 6am. Loyal BDP members braved the...