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Archive for April 21, 2007
April 21, 2007 at 7:46 am
· City · Current Affairs
indianexpress: THE merger of Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Transports is finally through, with the State government issuing a notification on Friday that removes the final obstacle standing in the way of the intricate merger process. The operations of both the transport bodies will continue as normal till the merger process is completed, in all likelihood by July-end. The merger comes along 32 years after the proposal was first mooted.
Confirming the move, principal secretary, state urban development department, Jairaj Phatak, said the notification has been sent to Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporations, after making minor changes in the draft. “Instead of mentioning regional transport officer, the notification had mentioned transport commissioner, which needed to be corrected,” Phatak said.
The merger will require the registration of the municipal transport bodies under the Companies Act, 1956, fixing the share capital, transfer of assets and appointing the directors. Phatak said the process may take up to three months. “However, it depends how fast the matter is taken up by the ad-hoc committee that is to be set up for the purpose,” he said.
For the first six months the company will be run by the ad-hoc committee, headed by the divisional commissioner, and will oversee the financial and administrative aspects of the merger. The municipal commissioners of PMC and PCMC and general managers of PMT and PCMT will be members of the committee while PMC commissioner will be the nodal officer.
After six months, the company will be headed by a chairman, who will be a bureaucrat appointed by the state government and not a political party representative, divisional commissioner Nitin Kareer said.
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April 21, 2007 at 7:45 am
· City
indianexpress: MINDCREST, a legal outsourcing firm, announced the launch of its new 400-seat facility in Pune on Thursday to hire lawyers. The company provides legal support across the enterprise in the US, Canada and the UK in finance, human resources, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, sales and marketing, procurement, manufacturing and legal.
Ganesh Natarajan, co-founder and CEO of Mindcrest said, “This is another step towards achieving our goal of investing in the high growth LPO sector. The centre being set up in Pune will form the core for the delivery of Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) services and we hope to learn and add more and more value-added services to the current LPO offering.
“According to a study by the US-based Forrester Research, the current annual value of legal outsourcing which is worth $80 million can rise up to $4 billion in India by 2015, hence Mindcrest is set to go for the next level of growth” he added.
George B Hefferan III, vice president, Mindcrest, said, “There are immense opportunities in LPO services in the legal markets. This presents a huge opportunity for India in terms of employment generation and wealth creation for its skilled labour pool. Mindcrest’s approach and focus on next generation values will allow it to create a niche for itself and become the industry leader.”
“We are confident that the team will be able to profitably deploy the capital resources we are providing, and continue its growth, in the LPO market. We believe that Mindcrest represents the next generation of BPO companies, with a focus on complex functions requiring high levels of analytical, problem solving and communications skills,” said Rohan Dalal,Mindcrest MD.
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April 21, 2007 at 7:44 am
· City
indianexpress: AFTER years of studiously ignoring the staff pattern suggested by the State government, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) now plans to adopt it to realign 38 top positions in the civic body. This will facilitate transfers of officers to other municipal corporations in the State and bring parity in the salaries.
The PMC, in accordance with the State staff pattern, will now have a new post for child and women welfare and statistics officer. The PMC will also have an ‘environment conservation officer’ as per the provision of the staff pattern.
The civic body will have the new post of water engineer considering the increasing water supply needs of the city.
The civic administration has asked the State government to depute an officer to the post of deputy general manager for the Pune Municipal Transport which the transport body never had.
The PMC had several officers on posts other than those sanctioned by the State government. While the State has approved only one deputy commissioner (social welfare) for civic bodies, the PMC has at least 10 additional commissioners.
According to the proposed changes, 6 additional commissioners—general, special, technical, land and estates, land acquisition, slum improvement —will be renamed as ‘assistant commissioner’ and four deputy divisional commissioners will be called as zonal officers.
The staff pattern has provision for three executive engineers, while the PMC had seven development engineers. It also had two posts of additional city engineer—projects and water supply— in addition to the development engineers—projects and water supply.
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April 21, 2007 at 7:43 am
· City
indianexpress: WHEN 20-year-old Ganesh Kharat of Bhosari wanted a driving licence, he was made to drive around concrete pillars where there was not enough light. “I was amused…but it seems there was no other way,” he said. Like Kharat, nearly 300 two-wheeler riders have to undergo the same exercise at the Deputy Regional Transport Office at Chikhli.
Even though it covers Pimpri-Chinchwad and five talukas of Junnar, Khed, Maval, Ambegaon and Haveli, it does not have enough space to conduct a driving licence test as per the norms. Two-wheeler riders are made to give tests in the parking lot of the building where the RTO is housed while those seeking a licence for four-wheelers have to take to the roads.
The RTO was shifted to Chikhli from Nigdi four years ago. Today, with nearly 1,000 two-wheeler and four-wheelers driving in, the RTO has been finding it increasingly difficult to find them space. As of now, it functions from a rented premises with offices scattered on the first floor, ground floor and the basement.
Deputy Regional Transport Office Sarjerao Shelke on Friday said his office has zeroed in on a three-and-half acre open plot of land at Ravet. “It looks like an ideal location. From Pune-Mumbai expressway, it is about a kilometre and half. Residents of Pimpri-Chinchwad and those from the surrounding villages will find it convenient to reach the office,” he said.
Shelke said the plan has already been approved by the PCMC, district collectorate and divisional commissioner’s office. “The Revenue Ministry and the Urban Development Department have sent the plan to the town planning department for its views. I am expecting the sanction any moment now,” Shelke said.
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April 21, 2007 at 7:42 am
· City
indianexpress: COMMUTERS travelling by Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation buses from the city to other places in the state this summer no longer have to rush to find a telephone booth to call up their families and friends on lonely highways to inform them they are safe.
Bharti Airtel Limited, over the next 30 days, will install public coin booths (PCOs) in the 4,500-odd buses of Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC). The services will cover 30 major cities including Pune, Mumbai, Nashik, Amravati, Aurangabad and Nagpur including nearly 218 towns.
“Around 1,900 buses have already been fitted with the GSM-based PCOs that have a pre-paid facility. Work on the remaining buses would be completed by May 25. Friday onwards, this facility will enable the commuters to make calls to any destination in India for Re 1. Local calls will be charged at Re 1 for 60 seconds and STD calls at Re 1 per 20 seconds,” said MSRTC chairman Sudhakar Paricharak.
MSRTC has entered into a tie-up with Airtel for a period of two years to offer telephone services to its commuters on long distance and medium distance routes. Depending on the response, the facility will be extended to other buses on other routes as well, Paricharak said.
MSRTC has a fleet of 15,500 buses plying on 85,000 routes across Maharashtra everyday.
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April 21, 2007 at 7:41 am
· City
indianexpress: The Pune Municipal Corporation’s City Improvement Committee on Friday formed a committee of civic administration to study the regularisation of MHADA buildings on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s pattern.
The committee proposed 2 FSI be provided for MHADA buildings in the city limit. CIC chairman Bapu Karne said the civic administration should prepare a guideline for the regularisation of buildings and present it to the committee in 15 days.
The committee also approved the proposal of extending the deadline for the gunthewari regularisation by 6 months. The comittee said the civic administration had stopped permitting gunthewari regularisations.
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April 21, 2007 at 7:40 am
· City
indianexpress: FORBES Marshall, specialists in process efficiency and energy conservation, have commissioned a fully automated test rig that can tangibly measure the quality of steam produced by a boiler. The setup of this special ‘test rig’ is a result of increased usage of high efficiency smoke tube boilers as against coil type boilers which produce poor quality steam used in the past by industries.
On the occasion of inauguration of this test rig, Naushad Forbes, the director of Forbes Marshall said, “It allows our customers to see the tangible benefits offered by smoke tube boilers in a scientific and methodical manner. With proven and documented data from sectors like pharmaceuticals, garments, textile, hotels, rubber processing, cattle-feed and food plants, we have observed amazing results from the used smoke tube boilers. This test rig costing Rs one crore is also one of our significant investments in R&D to develop products with scientifically proven processes. We believe it is the only one of its kind in the world.”
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April 21, 2007 at 7:38 am
· Technology
cnet: Advanced Micro Devices has begun quietly selling new 3GHz versions of its dual-core Opteron server processor.
The new “special edition” models, the 2222 SE and 8222 SE, feature higher performance but consume up to 120 watts compared with 95 watts for conventional 2.8GHz Opterons and 68 watts for 2.6GHz high-efficiency models.
The 2222 SE, for dual-processor systems, costs $873 in quantities of 1,000, according to the Web site, and the 8222 SE, for systems with four or eight processors costs $2,149 for quantities of 1,000. For comparison, the 2.8GHz 2220 SE and 8220 SE cost $698 and $1,514 in that quantity.
AMD spokesman Phil Hughes confirmed that the company has begun shipping the new chips. The company will officially launch the products Monday, he said.
The Opteron chip family has won the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company a place in the x86 server lines of all four of the top server companies–IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Dell. Of those companies, Dell, Sun and HP use the Opteron SE models in their servers.
But Intel in 2006 fought back with the competitive dual-core Xeon 5100 and quad-core Xeon 5300, which squeezes two dual-core chips into a single package, and AMD’s selling prices have plummeted as it fought to maintain market share.
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April 21, 2007 at 7:37 am
· Technology
cnet: A hydrogen-powered bike sounds like a Cub Scout project from the 23rd century, but there’s a good chance such a vehicle will hit the roads later this year in Canada or China.
Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies is readying an electric bike that gets its energy from a hydrogen fuel cell rather than a rechargeable battery, according to Taras Wankewycz, co-founder and vice president of Horizon. The company is talking with government officials in both countries to get these bikes out in 2007, he added.
“About 10 million electric bikes in China get sold every year and the lead acid batteries get discarded all the time,” Wankewycz said.
The company is also trying to prime interest for hydrogen-powered fishing boats, mini-cars, golf caddies and toys.
Rather than try to develop hydrogen cars, Horizon is attempting to keep the idea of hydrogen power alive by showing how fuel cells can power smaller items.
Horizon’s H-racer, a hydrogen-powered remote-controlled car for hobbyists, for instance, comes with a solar panel that harvests electricity that gets utilized to split water to create hydrogen.
“The reason it works is that people can refill it,” Wankewycz said. “We think big but we start small. We want to see the larger applications but we are realistic about when they are going to hit.”
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April 21, 2007 at 7:35 am
· Technology
cnet: How does your brain visually tell the difference between spilt milk and spilt salt?
It may be calculating the patterns of light and dark spots, according to researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the NTT Communications Science Labs in Japan.
It’s not exactly known how the human brain represents visual information, but some believe it operates like a digital camera with a really sophisticated computer, said Lavanya Sharan, a member of the perceptual science group in brain and cognitive sciences at MIT.
The electrical engineering and computer science graduate student co-authored the paper “Image statistics and the perception of surface qualities,” which will appear in the April 18 issue of Nature.
The paper argues that the brain takes a digital snapshot and then analyzes the bright and light spots to determine texture and, subsequently, what type of material it’s looking at, in addition to taking in information on color and shape.
“Practical applications of this work would extend to domestic robots or autonomous vehicles that could understand the world they look at. But it’s also important for understanding how human perception works. How the brain understands the color or the shininess of a surface can shed light on the workings of the visual system, which is a large open question,” Sharan said.
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