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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Bullets

ref:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BJP-Congress-war-of-words-on-terror-boat/articleshow/45754360.cms

Saturday, January 3, 2015

IT companies are not covered by the Industrial Employment Act

Currently, IT companies are not covered by the Industrial Employment Act. This disallows IT employees from forming any labour union or association and put them in the same category as casual workers, who could be laid off without any reason.

What go unnoticed are occasional blips - the layoffs - that are not statistically not as significant, but are imbued with sad stories of people.

Compenies claim it as nothing extraordinary and it’s only part of “workforce optimisation”

The seniors, who cannot be inducted into leadership or project management roles - probably due to lack of vacancies and competencies - add no better value than a new entrant. This “workforce optimisation” is seemingly about “cost optimisation”.

If the employees keep doing it without constantly upgrading their skills, they become no better than the new wave of recruits that enter the companies every year. After a while, the earlier ones make no sense cost-wise because the same job can be done by cheaper hands. The company, then talks of poor performance.

Employees are made to work at an average 14-16 hours a day..EOD concept means that end of day deadline is always the next day morning when others come to office

Karnatakagovernment's recent decision to exempt the information technology sector from an onerous labour law - theIndustrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 - for another five years.

Industry representatives in India's technology capital had welcomed the decision to extend the exemption from the Industrial Employment Act. According to them, the Act was archaic and not relevant to a modern, services industry such as theirs.

In the absence of exemption, IT firms would have had to define wages, number of contract employees, average work hours and other conditions of employment and display it prominently near the main entrance. For over a decade, software companies in Bangalore enjoyed exemption from the law,

Now Indian IT industry has lost Pyramid structure, now it has got Cylinder structure

“The company currently has about 90,000 staff with more than eight years of experience. The plan is to bring it down to 30,000 and hire more juniors,” he said.

FITE is an organisation that tries to work against what it calls illegal re-trenchment of employees
Vinod, a co-ordinator of Chennai-based Forum for IT Employees (FITE)

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-11-07/news/43776157_1_manufacturing-sector-labour-law-outsourcing-sector

http://www.firstpost.com/business/alleged-lay-offs-tcs-time-unionise-sector-2027195.html

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Capital City How to?

A city to be accessible from all corners of the state. Ideally, it should be at a centrally located area.

The location must have 6-km radius and development must be possible up to 6 km on all sides, as the new capital will have its own Secretariat, Assembly, High Court and other important buildings.
If the capital city is 12 km long, then it must be feasible for development across 144 sq km.
if we convert the same into acres, then 30,000 acres will be required for the development of a new capital city.

Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s outrageously grandiose ghost capital. Here, the challenge may well be to regulate growth rather than trying to populate the newly-built city. Amita Desai, Director of a German cultural organisation and a witness to the German unification, hopes “the new city would be inclusive, environmentally conscious and aesthetically fertile and, above all, provide spaces for women where they feel safe.”

Just being an attractive administrative capital — a la boring Gandhinagar — is not enough to pull people in and make a vibrant city

Delhi spread across 3,66,000

Mumbai spread across 1,49,000

Chennai spread across 1,05,000

Hyderabad spread across 1,54,000

Jaipur spread across 1,60,000

Proposed Amaravathi core capital 40,000

Deciding on a capital is never easy and it is tougher still when the population of the top pick is just a little more than 13,000, or one-five hundredth of Hyderabad’s.

Established as the capital of the expansive Satavahana Empire, which ruled most parts of central and southern Indian from 230 BCE to 220 CE, Amaravathi was once a prosperous centre.

The master plan for Andhra Pradesh proposes to develop Guntur, Nandigama and Gudivada into pharma, textile and agro centres, while pitching Amaravathi as the culture figurehead.

“Amaravathi has got more of a historical legacy and less of a living cultural legacy,”

modi cabinet!!

He has included at least 19 senior RSS members as ministers in the federal cabinet
ref:http://www.kashmirtimes.com/newsdet.aspx?q=39841

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Vijaywada Metro rail

The Centre, which has promised to take up the project in the Vijayawada-Guntur-Tenali-Mangalagiri region in the AP bifurcation bill, plans to complete it in four phases covering about 300 km.

the government is expected to spend about Rs 8 lakh per km of survey, it will require Rs 150 crore per km for laying of elevated metro route.

"The daily traffic between
Guntur - Vijayawada in buses is around 15,000,
Guntur-Tenali traffic is 6,000
Tenali-Vijayawada traffic is 5,000.

The combined population of VGM-UDA is about 30 lakh,

no metro train in the country has a total length of more than 200 km.

Delhi's train link is just for 192 km.

Thursday, August 7, 2014

River Cleaning

The over 2,500-km long Ganges flows through one of the most densely populated regions of the Gangetic Plains, supporting a population of over 400 million, almost a third of the national population.

The hope over Varanasi would have been unthinkable a year ago. Local civic authorities had almost given up on this city of 15 lakh people with a population density of 2,400 persons per square km — till the point Modi entered Varanasi.

A total of 764 industrial units, 118 municipal bodies and 1619 villages are polluting the Ganga river. A concrete plan is required to improve the situation.”

The effluents released over the last decade by sugarcane and paper mills, slaughterhouses and other industrial units have made the water “poisonous.” Independent studies have shown an extremely high content of heavy metals and mercury, lead, zinc, phosphate, sulphide, cadmium, iron, nickel and manganese in the water which has become so poisonous that it does not have any aquatic life.

The water has contaminated the groundwater of hundreds of villages located on the banks of these rivers which flow through Ghaziabad, Noida, Saharanpur, Meerut, Shamli, muzaffarnagar and Baghpat.

Nation-wide, different cities together generate 38,000 MLD of sewage. But, the treatment capacity exists only for about 12,000 MLD of sewage.

Magnitude of the problem can be understood from the fact that the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has indentified 144 drains that mostly discharge untreated waste to the tune of 6475 MLD into Ganga alone.

“The total suspended solids were found to be 7500 mg per litre as against the permissible 200 mg.
The presence of sulfide was 285 mg per litre as against the permissible 2 mg
iron was 38 mg as against 3 mg.
Extremely high levels of mercury and lead were also found,

Germany has cleaned the longest European river, the 1,232-km Rhine,

"The Rhine, which was the most polluted river in the Europe, is so clean today that the water can be used for drinking as well.

Bharti's ministry will be keenly awaiting the IIT report. Vinod Tare of IIT-Kanpur, one of its authors, has hinted that there could be controversial recommendations including banning hydroelectric dams on the Ganga, something the ministry of power or concerned state governments may not take kindly to. "Dams and barrages disrupt continuity of the water flow. You can't afford to use a river like Ganga merely for harnessing power," Tare says

In October last, district magistrate Pranjal Yadav had ordered removal of hoardings and advertisements along Ganga ghats.

Damodar, one of the most polluted rivers in the state, would be undertaken along with the clean-Ganga drive. “Damodar is one of the tributaries of Ganga. Damodar is battling with industrial effluents. Coal- and power-based industries are polluting the river

About Varanasi

one-third of the city's population (1.6 millions in 2011) is of Muslims. The importance of Muslims is noticed by existence of their 1,388 shrines and sacred sites, in contrast to Hindu's over 3,300 shrines and sacred sites.

Since the beginning of the 11th century, Muslims started settling down here with a predominance of Sunni sect (90%), followed with Shia, Ahle-Hadith and Ahmadiya. 14 are more popular of which five are mazars of Ghazi Miyan, Maqdum Shah, Chandan Shahid, Maulwi ji ka Bara and Yakub Shahid.

Famous Persian Shia poet Sheikh Ali Hazim (1692-1766) came to Varanasi in 1734 and settled here. Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869) also stayed in Banaras for four months. He developed a high sense of attachment to this place, and wrote a poem of 108 stanzas in Persian (Chiragh-i-Dair), of which 69 stanzas directly show his feelings towards Banaras.

Kabir, the saint poet, never compromised with fanaticism, whether propounded by Muslims or Hindus. Kabir raised his voice against social evils through the process of mass awakening and self-realisation that may help to constantly promote harmonious coexistence, he mentioned.