We always see India through the eyes of media channels, newspapers and other such mediums. But there are very few people who give us the real image of what our India is. I am talking about the people who have contributed to the nation. The person who has done something for the country is capable of speaking about the country. You and me, have done nothing but like commenting on each and every thing. One such person, who is unlike us, have bought the change in the country is APJ Abdul Kalam, our former President, I am too pleased and happy that a person like APJ Abdul Kalam keeps on answering all those questions through his books which gets published time to time whenever the youth starts getting impatient about their concern for the nation. I have read one such book that Dr.Sivathanu Pillai - “Revolution in Leadership”. The book also has a tagline- “Leadership Lesson From India”.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Thought For Change : We Can Do It
Thursday, May 26, 2011
India-2020
Every Day is a Miracle and an opportunity to all of us “You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one; each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.”
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
“Changing Face of Delhi” Preparing for 2010 Common Wealth Games
Namaste’ or ‘namaskar’ is the Indian way of greeting each other. It is not a superficial gesture or mere word, but has deep spiritual significance. When we greet one another with namaste, it means, ‘may our minds meet’, indicated by the folded palms placed
before the chest.
l Delhi won the right to host the 2010 Games by defeating the Canadian city of Hamilton by 46 votes to 22 at the CGF General Assembly held in Montego Bay in November 2003.
l The Commonwealth Games are to be held in following disciplines: Aquatics, Athletics, Badminton, Boxing, Cycling, Gymnastics, Hockey, Lawn Bowls, Net Ball, Shooting, Squash, Rugby 7”s Table Tennis, Weightlifting and Wrestling.
Changing face of Delhi
A new state-of-the-art Games Village is being built by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) with a focus on maximising athlete comfort. The village will be developed along the east bank of the River Yamuna. The site is off the National Highway 24 adjacent to the Akshardham temple at the Noida intersection. Exceeding CGF requirements, the Village will translate traditional Indian hospitality into standards of comfort & excellence never seen before by participating teams. To be created at a cost of USD 230.7 million (including Residential Zone), the Games Village will be spread over an area of 63.5 hectare (158.4 acre).
World Class Games Village
l The new state-of-the-art Games Village is being planned around maximising athlete comfort. The services and facilities will have a unique "athlete-comfort" orientation and approach.
l The Village will translate traditional Indian hospitality into standards of comfort & excellence never seen before by participating teams.
l Within its immediate vicinity are heritage monuments and historical landmarks. Combined with the dense green natural cover on the sides, it will be a relaxing and soothing environment for the athletes and officials. Athletes and Officials from all sports will stay at this one village.
Roads & Transport
Addition of new arterial and approach roads to improve intra-city transport and decongestion of all National Highways at Delhi’s entry points from its neighbouring states.
l Road Improvement Plan for 52 identified roads
Construction of nine new subways and improvement projects for existing ones (flooring, illuminations, signage, toilets, escalators etc).
Multi-level parking projects to increase parking space.
Development of underground tunnel to connect the Games Village with the venues and the city’s central road network.
l Building of first high capacity bus system in the city with new fleet of low-floored buses for the capital.
Metro Train
Development of new lines and extension of existing lines of the metro rail network to improve connectivity between Games venues.
Work is undergoing at a rapid speed and Metro Rail Corporation is confident to complete its task before the due date.
Airports
Modernization of the international airport with increased capacity to host flights.
Ø The new terminal will give the airport a capacity of 37 million passengers a year. The new terminal will have road access via a new six lane road from NH-8 and will also have a high-speed metro line to the city (metro line (Delhi Airport rail link) with special city check-in facilities. There will also be an integrated multi-storey car park at the terminal
Planning and building five-star hotels and the country’s largest world-class convention centre.
Big number of Hotels with world class facilities are coming up to provide the tourist all desired comforts in the city and NCR region.
l The Delhi government has decided to construct 36 hospitals in New Delhi, in the run-up to the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
l Some of these hi-tech hospitals will be built in the Trans-Yamuna area of DelhiInitially a fund of Rs.150 million has been planned for the construction of the hospitals, but more funds will be made available as and when needed.
Addition of power supply to the existing 3,500 MW supply available to the city.
Delhi will see the availability of power enhanced to 7,000 MW from the present 4,000 MW by the Commonwealth Games in 2010
In the coming years, the city will get power from the Damodar Valley Corp, National Thermal Power Corp, the Dadri power plant, the Jhajhar plant and the Pragati power plant - these total 4,240 MW.
l Government wants to turn green Delhi into lush green this time before the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
l Its horticulture department has sown 41,000 species of plants at Roshanara Bagh which are likely to flower during the Games period.
l Some of the trees being grown by the MCD include Plumeria Alba, Plumeria Acutifolia, Lagerstromia Flosreginae, Colvillea Racemosa, Bougainvillea, Hisbiscus, Lantana, Cassia alata, Jatropha, Neem, Ashoka tree etc. It also plans to sow five lakh plants and shrubs so that they are ready by then.
l Delhi will look more clean than ever before in the coming 2 years.
l With an eye on the Commonwealth Games 2010, the MCD has taken up the task of civilizing unruly citizens before the event.
l The MCD is finalizing the rules for implementing the new fines for littering public places, and willing to take the help of private sector organizations to impose the fines on the spot.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Tobacco & Health
India is the largest producer as well as consumer of tobacco in the world.
Tobacco Burden in India: Review of Literature in high impact journal show that disease causes thirty lakh death chronic observation lung disease and asthma 14.8 lakh death and cancer ten lakh deaths (3000 every day).
Issues: Ten percent of the world smokers and eighty percent of the world chewers are Indians eighty percent of the tobacco related death will be in developing countries in twenty first century and fifty percent of the worlds children are exposed to second hand smoke.
There are twenty five crore tobacco users out of these forty four percent are beedi smokers ten lakh people are employed in the beedi industry and 20,000 to 25,000 of them are children .
Employment in then tobacco chewing industry is not know, the bulk of it being in the unorganized sector.
Global Tobacco Burden: According to WHO in the 20th century ,tobacco killed 100 million and 21st century it will kill one billion .current annual deaths from tobacco are 5.4 million and estimated annual deaths in 2020 would be developing countries.
A cigarate is the only consumer product which when used kill its consumer. Human beings are the only species that inhale poisons in to their lungs voluntary that calls for their death in sprite of being nature’s most superior creation.
Lastely, may I ask, can we control the epidemic. would like to think “yes we can” if we work hard collectively we have achieved success in IT space atomic energy why not in health the future is in your hands ,we can rise to meet the challenge.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
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