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Archive for April 28, 2007
April 28, 2007 at 7:39 am
· City
indianexpress: THE Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is sitting on a treasure trove - 18,000 properties that it has acquired for the last 57 years from the public for various purposes. Of these, there may be over 3,000 holdings that are yet to be developed and the civic body is now busy calculating the value of this revenue stream that is yet to be unlocked. The aggregate value of the 18,000 properties is put at over Rs 1,000 crore.
The civic administration, that was unaware all these years of the sheer extent and value of this asset base, has woken up to what can be termed a new income source last week when the list of these property acquisitions was collated by the civic land acquisition department.
There are about 90 categories including parking, roads, playground, gardens, parks, schools, hospitals and vegetable market, details of which have now been computerised with details such as size of land, its location and from whom it was acquired.
“There was no point in keeping on acquiring new land, when we did not possess any information on the land already acquired. Now that we have all the details, it will be easier to find how many of these properties have actually been put to use,” said deputy municipal commissioner (land acquisition) Suraj Mandhare.
The plan is to issue tenders for the unutilised land holdings and put them to constructive use. This could well mean more infrastructure for the city — roads, parking space, schools, vegetable markets and gardens.
While, Mandhare says it will be difficult to put a tag on these properties, it will be surely more than Rs 1,000 crore. “The categories of these properties is too vast, they are spread across the city at prime locations and have large space. The cost of around 80 amenity space itself is more than Rs 100 crore,” he said.
The details of land acquired from private owners were scattered in 8,000 documents categorised in 36 registers. Post computerisation, all the land acquisition records — 7/12 extract and land maps — are available online with the PMC. The original documents have been scanned and updated online, so that even minute scribblings on them are visible.
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April 28, 2007 at 7:38 am
· City
indianexpress: AS many as 136 chicken shops, all unlicenced, selling nearly 4,000 kg of chicken everyday in Pimpri-Chinchwad have set alarm bells ringing among officials of the PCMC’s veterinary department. At the heart of the matters lies the 1,200 kg of chicken waste that is dumped undeterred along roadsides, in garbage bins, nallas and near chicken shops. Chicken waste, officials say, can cause food poisoning among humans and affect birds and animals feasting on it.
The facts came to light in a survey aimed at making licence compulsory for mutton, chicken and fish vendors. The PCMC’s veterinary department has decided to put in place a proper chicken waste disposal system. “Nearly 33 per cent of the 4,000 kg chicken sold every day is waste. Mutton shops have hardly any waste while fish waste is also negligible,” says PCMC veterinary chief Satish Gore.
Chicken waste decomposes fast and birds and animals feasting on it develop infections. “People who lift garbage from open bins come in contact with decomposing chicken waste. Salmonella is a common infection they can catch,” he says.
The survey found chicken intestines, legs, heads and beaks were indiscriminately dumped mostly along roadsides and open garbage bins where dogs, pigs, and kites fight for their share. “The problem is common across the town as chicken shop owners do not follow proper disposal of waste,” says Gore.
As an immediate step, the PCMC is to appoint a private agency to collect the chicken waste from shop-to-shop. “We will appoint a private firm to dispose of the chicken waste outside the PCMC limits in an eco-friendly way. Along with Rs 200 licence fee for running the shop, PCMC plans to collect an additional Rs 50 from chicken shop owners for disposing of the waste everyday,” said Gore.
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April 28, 2007 at 7:37 am
· City
indianexpress: IT’S not just enough to write a prescription for treating a fever. With two-third infants dying in their neo-natal period, gynaecologists, paediatricians and doctors are now undergoing a crash course on how to pick up the five main killer diseases — malnutrition, diahorrea, measles, malaria and respiratory infections like pneumonia. A five-day workshop at the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) is training experts who will then go back and tell their undergraduate students how important it was to treat diseases at the grassroot level.
The AFMC will spearhead an organised effort to reduce infant mortality in Maharashtra. AFMC will collaborate with WHO, UNICEF and Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) in propagating the protocols adopted in the Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI).
Col Madhuri Kanitkar, Head of the Department of Paediatrics, AFMC said that the five-day workshop aims at training the faculty of local medical colleges like D Y Patil Medical College, Talegaon Medical College, B J Medical College and others in propagating IMNCI.
Dr Mridula Phadke, Vice Chancellor, MUHS, who inaugurated the workshop, said efforts were being made to implement the IMNCI protocol through the training of faculty of all 39 medical colleges in Maharashtra. MUHS has become the first university in the country to incorporate IMNCI into the undergraduate curriculum. This will help train all medical students in the protocol.
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April 28, 2007 at 7:35 am
· City
indianexpress: AFTER banning the Pune Municipal Transport (PMT) buses from plying in the University chowk area, the traffic police recently granted permission for the transport body to run its mini-buses on routes in this area. The PMT has already started eight mini-buses for commuters to reach Pashan, Aundh, Sutarwadi, Abhinav College, Baner and Balewadi.
The PMT buses were banned from plying through the University chowk from April 17 to help the construction of the flyover. The routes from Pashan, Aundh, Baner and Sutarwadi were closed for PMT buses. This caused inconvenience to passengers and a daily loss of revenue for the transport body because of the diversions buses had to take. The number of passengers too dropped.
Subsequently, traffic experts and PMT committee members had demanded that mini-buses be allowed to ply in the area.
After much deliberation, the traffic police has granted permission to the PMT to ply the mini-buses from Senapati Bapat Road. Five mini-buses have already begun plying on two ring routes — PMC to PMC via Pashan and PMC to PMC via Balewadi from April 20 while three mini-buses have started plying on the shuttle route from Deccan to Deccan via Abhinav College in Sutarwadi.
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April 28, 2007 at 7:34 am
· City
indianexpress: THE Transport Commissionerate (TC) has decided to make it mandatory for applicants for vehicle registration to provide reliable documents like voter’s identity card, LIC policy or passport for vehicle registration.
In a press communiqué, the Pune Regional Transport Office has said there are instances where people have provided forged documents for vehicle registration and transfer. The National Crime Records bureau has pointed out the failure to solve cases of 6.78 lakh stolen vehicles due to the use of forged documents.
In accordance with the provisions of Motor Vehicles Act, the applicants for registration and transfer of vehicles will have to provide original and a photocopy of voter’s identity card, LIC policy, passport, Central or State government issued payment statement, school leaving certificate, birth certificate or certificate provided by the district medical officer. Along with any of these, ration card, electricity bill will be accepted. If it is on a relative’s name, it will be accepted with an authority letter.
If the individual is unable to produce any of the certificates, they can apply with an affidavit executed before an executive magistrate or first class judicial magistrate or notary. The registration or transfer application should have a thumb impression and signature placed before the registering officer or registered dealer or notified officer. A copy of I-T returns along with the details of PAN should also be attached in case of vehicles other than two-wheelers.
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April 28, 2007 at 7:33 am
· City · Education
indianexpress: STUDENTS of Std IX and X will take lessons in the Right To Information (RTI) Act as a compulsory part of their Secondary School Certificate (SSC) syllabus in the coming academic year beginning in June 2007.
In a reply to an RTI application filed by civic activist Vihar Durve, the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education said that information on the Act and its applications would be included in the Std IX civics textbook and handbook, as well as the handbook of the Std X subject of personality development.
In its reply, the State Board said that while the Std IX civics textbook had already been published, it would be available at a price of Rs 7 in the market. “The personality development textbook will be made available at the beginning of the academic year,” the board said.
As reported earlier by Newsline, an introduction to the RTI Act will also be given in the Std VI civics textbook in a chapter on citizens rights. Moreover, then State Board chairman Vasant Kalpande had said that filing RTI applications would also be included in the list of projects to be carried out by Std X students.
The inclusion of RTI in the school syllabus had been strongly recommended by noted RTI activist Anna Hazare during a meeting with Kalpande last year. After due consultation with experts, the Board decided to introduce the act to students.
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April 28, 2007 at 7:32 am
· City
indianexpress: FRIDAY turned out to be a steamy, hide-your-head day with the maximum temperature touching 41. 4 degree Celsius, the highest in this season so far. Maximum temperatures have touched 40 degree Celsius twice this season— on April 6 ( 40.7 degree Celsius) and on Thursday (40.3 degree Celsius). There may be some respite with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicting thunder showers in the next 48 hours.
The shifting of the trough or the discontinuity of winds to central Maharashtra and Marathwada regions have been identified as the reason for the rise in temperature by the IMD.
“The trough is located at 100 m above sea level,” said IMD director (weather forecasting) Dr Medha Khole .
These winds are blowing from Gangetic West Bengal to southern Tamil Nadu over Chattisgarh, Vidarbha, Marathwada and Central Maharashtra which has resulted in weather changes, she added.
Khole said the temperature would rise further in the coming days.
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April 28, 2007 at 7:28 am
· Technology
techtree: US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer.
The scientists ran a “cortical simulator” that was as big and as complex as half of a mouse brain on the BlueGene L supercomputer.
In other smaller simulations the researchers say they have seen characteristics of thought patterns observed in real mouse brains.
Now the team is tuning the simulation to make it run faster and to make it more like a real mouse brain.
Brain tissue presents a huge problem for simulation because of its complexity and the sheer number of potential interactions between the elements involved.
The three researchers, James Frye, Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan, and Dharmendra S. Modha, laid out how they went about it in a very short research note entitled “Towards Real-Time, Mouse-Scale Cortical Simulations”.
Half a real mouse brain is thought to have about eight million neurons each one of which can have up to 8,000 synapses, or connections, with other nerve fibres.
Modelling such a system, the trio wrote, puts “tremendous constraints on computation, communication and memory capacity of any computing platform”.
The team, from the IBM Almaden Research Lab and the University of Nevada, ran the simulation on a BlueGene L supercomputer that had 4096 processors, each one of which used 256MB of memory.
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April 28, 2007 at 7:26 am
· Technology
techtree: Adding to its portfolio of Walkman phones, Sony Ericsson has reportedly today launched the W200i Walkman series music phone with Bass Reflex Headphones.
The W200i comes with a digital music player, 20-channels preset stereo FM radio, expandable memory with 128 MB card, mega bass, and VGA camera.
The phone bundles a Bass Reflex Headset, HPM-64 with an ergonomic in-ear design.
With the W200i, consumers can simultaneously click quality pictures with the 4x zoom VGA camera and play games, send multimedia messages, and connect to mobile services in the same device. The phone comes with pre-loaded Java games.
Speaking at the Delhi launch event, Sudhin Mathur, General Manager of Sony Ericsson India, said the W200i brings Sony Ericsson’s unparalleled music technology to a wider market. Mathur said the phone has been designed with a single dedicated Walkman key for consumers to enjoy their favorite music whenever they want.
The first advertising campaign featuring Sony Ericsson’s India Brand Ambassador, Hrithik Roshan, will focus on the W200i.
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April 28, 2007 at 7:25 am
· Technology
techtree: ViewSonic has launched world-wide, its first 28-inch LCD, the VX2835wm, which sports fastest response times of 3 milliseconds.
The VX2835wm is Microsoft Windows Vista Premium logo certified to ensure that the monitor’s features are in-sync with the high performance standards of Microsoft’s new operating system. This allows users to realize the visual advantages of faster graphics processing speeds, and the richer lighting, shadows, and other visual qualities that are critical to true, high definition entertainment experiences.
Alan Chang, General Manager of ViewSonic Asia Pacific, said, “ViewSonic always drives market trends, and keeps the LCD market moving forward. Owing to software and hardware applications being popularly utilized in current digital life, ViewSonic foresees big and wide screen LCDs as the most appropriate LCDs to fit this trend. ViewSonic VX2835wm will be the most ideal LCD to perform digital content perfectly.”
The VX2835wm has an HDMI with HDCP input to provide clear, crisp, high definition, full HD images, for enjoying diverse digital entertainment, including IPTV, movies, and digital photos. Superior picture performance is also delivered through the wide format of the displays, which gives people the extra room they need to view two 8.5 by 11-inch documents side-by-side, along with a navigational tool bar for quick, productive toggling, searching, or editing.
The integration of full-sound stereo speakers and power supply into the display’s curved, thin bezels provides users with more room by freeing up valuable desktop space.
The USP of the monitor is its 3 milliseconds response time, the fastest in the world.
Other features include: ViewSonic ClearMotiv II technology, 1920 x 1200 native resolution, 500 nits of brightness (typ), and a 1000:1 contrast ratio (typ). The VX2835wm also features Opticolor technology, which optimizes the color and skin tones within movies, games, and photos. The 3D deinterlacing technology provides superior picture quality through precision 3D interlacing, color processing, and advanced scaling.
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