Friday, May 30, 2014

Brazil promises ‘greenest World Cup’

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Brazil promises ‘greenest World Cup’
 
Brazil promises Updated on : 28-05-2014 07:05 PM
Brazil announced a package of pollution-cutting measures aimed at making this year’s World Cup more environmentally friendly, ranging from an emissions-trading scheme to a “green passport” smart-phone application.
“We want to score green goals,” said Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira at a press conference announcing the initiative. 
The World Cup and other major sports events generally leave giant carbon footprints. Building stadiums and infrastructure, flying in teams and fans, and hosting the games themselves all emit large amounts of Earth-warming greenhouse gases such as CO2. 
Teixeira said this year’s World Cup, which runs from June 12 to July 13, is expected to directly add 59,000 tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere. 
When indirect emissions linked to the tournament are included, the total rises to 1.4 million tonnes — just under half the footprint attributed to the London Olympics in 2012. 
The government has launched a program to offset that pollution by asking companies to give carbon credits in exchange for the right to advertise themselves as official “green seal” World Cup sponsors. 
The government has already offset 115,000 tonnes of emissions through such donations of carbon credits — a tradable permit to emit a certain amount of greenhouse gases. 
“The Cup will open having offset 100 percent of its direct emissions,” said Teixeira, vowing to continue working for “the greatest possible mitigation” of tournament-related CO2 before the end of the year. 
Together with the United Nations Environment Program, the government also launched a project called “green passport” to encourage football fans to practice environmentally sustainable tourism. 
About 600,000 foreigners and 3.1 million Brazilian tourists are expected to descend on the 12 host cities. 
Anticipating that many will want to explore the country between matches, the project proposes environmentally friendly travel itineraries from each host city, complete with a cell phone app. Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen is the project’s official spokeswoman. 
Teixeira said this World Cup is the first where all host stadiums will have LEED certification — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Deign, a sustainability seal of approval. 
Other programs announced Tuesday aim to train garbage collectors on recycling and set up stalls to sell locally produced organic food in host cities. 

Double Bill at the Italian Cultural Centre -Saturday, 31st May 2014

Cultural Program
To Undisclosed Recipients
Today at 10:20 AM

ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA DI NEW DELHI  - INCONTRI IN BIBLIOTECA
Nuovo cinema Italiano/ New Italian Cinema: Opere Prime/Debut Films: 2008-2013
DOUBLE BILL at Italian Embassy Cultural Centre

Italian romance film directed by Valerio Mieli
DIECI INVERNI / Ten Winters
99 min., 2009
Saturday, May 31, 2014, 2:00 p.m.
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Trama: Dieci anni nelle esistenze di Camilla e Silvestro, conosciutisi all'età di 18 anni su un vaporetto nella laguna veneziana, nell'inverno del 1999, e da quel momento ciclicamente amici, nemici, conoscenti, innamorati, vicini e distanti. Un'avventura vissuta tra Venezia e Mosca ...

Synopsis: Winter 1999. Camilla, a young girl arrives in Venice from a village to study Russian literature. She notices a boy in the water bus. The boy, Silvestro is of the same age as Camilla. He too is just arrived in Venice and is also carrying a suitcase. The two start exchanging glances.When the water bus reaches the landing stage, he decides to follow the girl... Thus begins a ten-year-long adventure that sees the two live their student life in Venice and continue on to the alienating frenzy of Moscow .
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Italian Thriller directed by Luigi Lo Cascio

La città  ideale / The ideal city
2012, 105 min.
Saturday, May 31, 2014, 4:00 p.m.

Trama: Michele Grassadonia è un appassionato ecologista che ha lasciato Palermo e si è trasferito a Siena , la sua città ideale, e da circa un anno ha cominciato un nuovo stile di vita, cercando di non utilizzare l'acqua corrente e l'energia elettrica. Una notte di pioggia, però, …...

Synopsis: Michele Grassadonia is a fervent environmentalist. A long time ago, he moved from Palermo to Siena , its ideal city. He has carried out an experiment in his flat for longer than one year: living in full self-sufficiency, without running water or electricity. On a rainy night, Michele gets caught up in a series of confusing and mysterious events. From this moment on, his joyful experience in the ideal city starts to waver.
Tessitori Hall of the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre in New Delhi
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    Thursday, May 29, 2014

    Towering inferno at Surat orchid building

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    A major fire broke out on Thursday in a commercial multi-storey building housing a market of sarees on Puna Kumbharia road here and 80 fire tenders have been rushed to the spot. 
    “The fire erupted at Orchit tower in Vipul House, a market of sarees, located in front of Sardar market in Puna Kumbhania area of the city,” a fire brigade official said. 
    The number of people trapped inside the premises was yet to be ascertained, officials said, adding that no injuries or casualties have been reported so far. The fire brigade has declared a ‘brigade call’ and deployed 170 fire fighters and almost 80 fire vehicles were on the spot, they said. 
    When more than 16 fire engines are called on a spot, a Brigade Call is declared. 
    The fire broke out at around 10 AM on the fourth floor of the building, soon after the complex opened for the day’s work, an official said. 
    “There are 12 floors in the building which mostly have cloth material establishments,” the official said. The cause of the blaze was yet to be ascertained, he said. 


     

    16th LS to begin from 4th June

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    First session of 16th LS to begin from 4th June
    The first session of the newly constituted 16th Lok Sabha will be held from 4th June to 12th June with President Pranab Mukherjee addressing the joint sitting of both Houses on 9th June.
    After the new members take oath on 4th June and 5th, the Speaker will be elected on the next day.The Rajya Sabha will commence from 9th June after the joint sitting.
    Senior Congress MP Kamal Nath will be the Pro-tem Speaker who will administer the oath to the new members.
    He will be assisted by a panel of Chairmen, consisting of Arjun Charan Sethi (BJD), Purno A Sangma (National People’s Party) and Biren Singh Engti (Congress).
    Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu made the announcements on Thursday after a meeting of the Union Cabinet which deliberated on the Parliament session.
    “We are studying various precedents while discussing the issue. There is still time to take that call,” Naidu said when asked whether Congress would be given the post of the Leader of Opposition despite it not having the requisite numbers.
    “We have not zeroed in on anyone. We don’t want to zero in anyone,” he said when asked whether any name has been shortlisted for the post of the Speaker.


     

    PM identifies 3 key priority areas of governance, delivery and implementation

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    PM identifies 3 key priority areas of governance, delivery and implementation
    Getting down to business, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked his Cabinet colleagues to set a 100-day agenda with focus on efficient governance, delivery and implementation of programmes.
    Believing that the progress of states is crucial for the country’s development, he also instructed his Council of Ministers to give priority to the issues brought forth by the state governments as also the MPs.The directives were given by Modi at a Cabinet meeting in New Delhi in the context of his 10-point vision which includes increasing investment, completing infrastructure projects in time-bound manner and exploiting the natural resources to the country’s benefit.
    To send out a similar message across the country, Modi is likely to address the nation, possibly after the brief Parliament session that would be convened from June 4 to 11 during which President Pranab Mukherjee will address the joint sitting outlining the government’s agenda.
    “The Prime Minister issued guidelines to the Ministers at the Cabinet meeting… He asked the ministers to set a timetable for the first 100 days listing the priorities,” said Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu.
    Modi emphasised that the “most important” aspect that need to be focussed on are efficient governance, delivery and implementation of schemes and programmes, Naidu said while briefing the media on the meeting.
    While focussing on these aspects, the government will take forward on priority basis the issues pending from the previous government.
    He asked the Cabinet ministers to take Ministers of State along and give them “proper” work so that they feel involved.
    The Prime Minister has outlined the “roadmap” and asked Ministers to set the agenda of 100 days, Naidu said, adding efforts would be made to implement it.
    Modi told his Cabinet colleagues, at the second meeting in two days, that he would be regularly meeting them as also the Secretaries individually, Naidu said.
    To a question, the Minister said issues like price rise, agriculture and women security, will naturally be a priority as these are the focus areas of the BJP-led government.
    “Expectations of people are high… Difference sections have different priorities. Every section is important,” he said.
    On Modi’s thrust on giving priority to issues raised by states, Naidu said this was in keeping with the “true spirit of federalism”.
    He explained that since Modi, as Chief Minister of Gujarat, had worked in a state, he understands the importance of federal structure and gave instructions for maintaining certain standards in this respect.
    On the issue of giving work to Ministers of State, Naidu said Modi wants them to be taken along in proper spirit because “a new team” is to be built.
    “The spirit of the message has been understood by all the ministers. But an MoS is an MoS. Try to understand. A Cabinet Minister is responsible. They have to segregate work…He cannot give total decision-making to an MoS. But certain work has to be given to the MoS so that they have satisfaction of having some role,” he said


     

    Class XII CBSE results: Girls outshine boys 

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    Class XII CBSE results: Girls outshine boys
    Girls have fared much better than boys in this year’s CBSE class XII examinations, where the overall pass percentage stood at 82.66 per cent. 
    The pass percentage of girls stood at 88.52 as compared to 78.27 per cent for boys. 

    Thiruvananthapuram Region registered the best results among all the regions, posting a pass percentage of 94.26, said CBSE in a statement, after the results for the Delhi and the Dehradun regions were declared on Thursday. 
    The pass percentage across the country stood at 82.66 per cent, slightly higher than what it had registered last year with 82.10 per cent. 
    In total 10,28,928 candidates had registered for class XII examination this year. 
    The results of Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram regions were declared on 26th May, and the results of Ajmer, Allahabad, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Panchkula and Patna regions were delcared on Thursday. 


     

    Pinaka rockets test fired successfully

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    Pinaka rockets  on Thursday successfully test-fired thrice from a multi-barrel rocket launcher at an armament base in Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 km from Balasore in Odisha.”Three rounds of Pinaka rockets were successfully tested from the proof and experimental establishment at Chandipur,” defence sources said.
    Pinaka, which has undergone several tough tests since 1995, has been inducted into the armed forces and the present trials were conducted with some improvements in the system, the sources said, adding some more tests are likely to be held. The unguided rocket system is meant to neutralise large areas with rapid salvos.
    The rockets with a range of 40 km and capable of acting as a force-multiplier, were developed to supplement artillery guns, the sources said.


     

    Global news

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    Norwegian police stops Greenpeace rally on Statoil’s rig


    Norwegian police stopped a Greenpeace rally that blocked the Transocean Spitsbergen drilling rig of the Norwegian company Statoil in the Barents Sea after two days of protest, ITAR-TASS reported. Transocean Spitsbergen will continue its way to the Apollo well. However, the company will not start drilling until the environment ministry announces its response to Greenpeace’s complaint. The Greenpeace activists claim the company is violating the ban on drilling closer than 50 kilometers from the ice boundary.


    Palestinian unity govt announcement delayed


    The announcement of a Palestinian unity government has been delayed until next week, a senior Fatah official said on Thursday. “The announcement of the government lineup has been postponed until next week for further consultations between Hamas and Fatah,” Anadolu news agency quoted Amin Maqbol, Secretary-General of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council, as saying. Sources cited disagreement between the two rival groups on the foreign ministry portfolio for postponing the announcement, the Daily Star newspaper reported.

    5.3-magnitude earthquake strikes off Raoul Island, New Zealand


    A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck 107km south of Raoul Island, New Zealand, at 06:39 GMT on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake struck at a depth of 35km. No damage was immediately reported.

    Bombings kill 1 Afghan policeman, NATO soldier dies in helicopter crash


    Two roadside bombings in the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar have killed one policeman and wounded four, AP reported, citing officers. The first explosion struck a police car on Thursday morning, killing one officer and wounding two, and the second blast, minutes later at the same location, wounded two more officers. The international coalition in Afghanistan has said one of its service members died in a helicopter crash on Wednesday in the country’s south. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.


     

    Germany’s Merkel tops Forbes ‘powerful women’ list for 4th year

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    German Chancellor Angela Merkel topped Forbes’s list of the world’s most powerful women for the fourth consecutive year. She was followed by US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, AFP reported, citing the magazine. Behind them came Melinda Gates, who co-chairs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and IMF chief Christine Lagarde. Hillary Clinton, former first lady and ex-Secretary of State, was listed at number six. The annual list includes women in business, media, politics and other areas.


     

    SP: Employment to youths or unemployment allowance

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    समाजवादी पार्टी के प्रदेश प्रवक्ता राजेन्द्र चौधरी ने कहा है कि समाजवादी आंदोलन के महानायक डा0 राम मनोहर लोहिया ने “बेकारों को काम दो या बेकारी का भत्ता दो“ का नारा दिया था जिसे समाजवादी सरकार में श्री मुलायम सिंह यादव और बाद में मुख्यमंत्री श्री अखिलेश यादव अमल में लाए। बेरोजगारी भत्ता देने का क्रम शुभारंभ श्री मुलायम सिंह यादव ने पिछली सरकार में किया था जिसके लिए वर्तमान समाजवादी सरकार के बजट में भी प्राविधान है। लेकिन समाजवादी सरकार का जोर इस पर ज्यादा है कि ज्यादा से ज्यादा रोजगार के अवसर सृजित हों और इसके लिए आवश्यक कुशल एवं प्रशिक्षित युवा भी उपलब्ध हों।
    लगभग 5.92 लाख बेरोजगार युवक-युवतियों को जो 14 से 35 वर्ष की आयु के हैं, विभिन्न, व्यवसायों में दक्षता प्रदान करने के लिए वित्तीय वर्ष 2014-15 में रोजगारपरक निःशुल्क प्रशिक्षण देने की व्यवस्था की गई है। वित्तीय वर्ष 2015-16 में करीब 08 लाख, वर्ष 2016-17 में करीब 09.26 लाख अर्थात 23.18 लाख बेरोजगार नवयुवकों को तीन वर्षो में रोजगार परक निःशुल्क प्रशिक्षण दिलाया जाएगा। प्रदेश में आर्थिक विकास हेतु दक्ष मानवशक्ति उपलब्ध कराने तथा रोजगार के और अधिक अवसर उपलब्ध कराने हेतु वर्ष 2014-15 में राजकीय औद्योगिक प्रषिक्षण संस्थानों में 26840 प्रशिक्षण सीटों की वृद्धि करने का ऐतिहासिक निर्णय भी लिया गया है।
    मुख्यमंत्री श्री अखिलेश यादव प्रदेश में नए उद्योग लगाने और निवेशको को आकर्षित करने के लिए विशेषतया प्रयन्तशील हैं। अभी 12 जून,2014 को मुख्यमंत्री जी स्वयं दिल्ली में एक आयोजन करने जा रहे है जिसमें दुनिया की पचास से ज्यादा कम्पनियां हिस्सा लेगी। इस षो में जर्मनी, कनाडा, इटली, ताइवान, टर्की, चेक रिपब्लिक के उद्योग संगठन भागीदारी निभाएगें। इस का मकसद अधिक से अधिक निवेषकों को यूपी की नीतियों के बारे में समझाना और प्रदेश में निवेश के लिए प्रेरित करना है।
    इसमें दो राय नहीं कि जनसंख्या की दृष्टि से देश के सबसे बड़े राज्य उत्तर प्रदेश के चहुॅमुखी विकास के लिए समाजवादी सरकार ने नई नीतियां बनाईं और उन्हें क्रियान्वित कर अर्थव्यवस्था के विकास को तीव्रगीत प्रदान की है। कृशि क्षेत्र का विकास, औद्योगिक विकास, विभिन्न अवस्थापना सुविधाओं के विकास, विद्युत क्षेत्र में आत्मनिर्भरता, चिकित्सा सेवा क्षेत्र में विस्तार, सड़कों में सुधार की दिशा में उठाए गए महत्वपूर्ण कदमों से प्रदेश की अर्थव्यवस्था को सुदृढ़ बनाया जा रहा हैं। औद्योगिक क्षेत्रों के विकासकर्ताओं को राज्य में पूंजीनिवेष के लिए आकर्षित किया गया है और उन्हें परियोजनाएं लगाने के लिए पर्याप्त सुविधाएं दी जा रही है।


     

    Modi quit Vadodara, Mulayam vacate Mainpuri

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    Narendra Modi quit his Vadodara Lok Sabha seat, choosing to retain Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, Saffron  Party recorded  victory bagging 71 of the 80 seats in the  electionsLS  2014.
    Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, too elected  from two seats in Uttar Pradesh, thus vacate  from his pocket-borough Mainpuri thus retains Azamgarh. 
    As per  the rules, a member one elected from two Lok Sabha constituencies has to vacate one of the seats within 14 days of the declaration of result. With Lok Sabha results out on May 16, the deadline was to expire on Thursday.
    Parliament sources said the resignation of the two leaders has been received and were under process.
    The prime minister had won Vadodara with a near record margin of 5.7 lakh, which was the biggest in this Lok Sabha polls. The BJP has won all the 26 seats in Gujarat.
    Varanasi, Modi was challenged by the Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal.
    Modi’s challenger Kejriwal lost by more than 3.7 lakh votes.


     

    Two billion people obese

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    Nearly 30 percent of the world’s population – or 2.1 billion people – is considered obese or overweight, researchers said, while rates among children have increased by a whopping 47 percent in the last 33 years.
    Researchers, concluding the most comprehensive study to date on the global epidemic of obesity, found that the number of people suffering from excessive weight broke the scale, ballooning from 857 million in 1980 to 2.1 billion in 2013. In the same period, rates of global obesity and excessive weight surged 28 percent in adults and 47 percent in children.
    The researchers consulted statistics that spanned 188 nations over the last 33 years.
    Putting aside the notion that obesity is predominantly a western phenomenon, nations in the Middle East and North Africa, Central America and the Pacific and Caribbean islands have hit “staggeringly high” obesity rates, according to the study by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, reported in the Lancet medical journal.
    Among females, researchers showed the biggest obesity increase occurred in Egypt, Honduras, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Oman. Among males, the top gainers included New Zealand, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United States.
    The problem was most severe in the Middle East and North Africa, with more than 58 percent of adult men and 65 percent of adult women overweight or obese.
    “Two-thirds of the obese population actually resides in developing countries,” said Marie Ng, a global health professor who was one of the contributors to the study.


     

    Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan sign ‘epoch’ Eurasian Economic Union

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    Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko (from right to left) at the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Astana, Kazakhstan. (RIA Novosti / Michail Klimentyev)

    Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan signed the historic Eurasian Economic Union which will come into effect in January 2015. Cutting down trade barriers and comprising over 170 million people it will be the largest common market across the ex-Soviet states.
    “The just-signed treaty is of epoch-making, historic importance,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
    The troika of countries will cooperate in energy, industry, agriculture, and transport.
    “In fact, we are shaping the largest common market in the CIS, with huge production, scientific and technological potential and enormous natural resources,” the President added.
    Citizens of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan will have the right to work freely throughout the member states without having to be issued any special work permits, Putin said.
    Over the last three years, trade within the Customs Union has increased by $23 billion, or nearly 50 percent. At the end of 2013, it stood at $66.2 billion.
    Belarus and Kazakhstan are in third place in foreign trade with the Russian Federation, after the EU and China, Putin said.
    The Russian leader said that the document brings Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus to a new level of integration and fully retains sovereignty.
    “We ensure a close and coherent economic collaboration and cooperation. Today we have created a powerful and attractive center of economic development, a large regional market that brings together more than 170 people. Our union has huge reserves of natural resources, including energy, which accounts for one fifth of the world’s gas reserves and 15 percent of oil reserves,” Putin said.
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    General Vladimir Kulchtsky, thirteen Ukrainian soldiers killed

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    Ukraine’s army has started shelling the eastern Ukraine cities of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, therby resuming its massive military operation in the East of the country, local news outlets report.
    “A full-scale military operation has begun in Kramatorsk and Slavyansk. BM-21 launch vehicle “Grad” are being used,” Donbas-based Ostrov agency says.
    Fourteen Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash near the city of Slavyansk, Donetsk Region, according to the acting president of Ukraine, Aleksandr Turchinov.
    Anti-government protesters in Slavyansk have downed a Ukrainian forces helicopter in the south-east of Slavyansk, Donetsk region.
    Fourteen servicemen, including a general, Vladimir Kulchtsky hgeneralave have been killed in a helicopter crash near the city of Slavyansk, Donetsk Region, according to the acting president of Ukraine, Aleksandr Turchinov who spoke at a parliamentary session in Kiev.
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    Women Power in Lower house

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    Lame Duck IIT+IIM Support for Unqualified Ministers

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    Lame Duck IIT+IIM Support for Unqualified Ministers
      
    Ravinder Singh
    To presidentofindia@rb.nic.inpmosb@pmo.nic.inmanmohan@sansad.nic.in and 36 More…
     
     
     Today at 10:14 AM
    Lame Duck IIT+IIM Support for Unqualified Ministers
    May29, 2014
    It is absolutely shocking to read IIT+IIM support for Unqualified
    Ministers. Success rate of a better qualified is always better than a
    person with no qualification given similar resources.
    This is India’s tragedy that we couldn’t find a single person
    adequately qualified to be HRD minister of India among 1250m Indians.
    The entire debate over the issue is even more disgraceful.
    When a similarly Railway Minister was interrogated about Corruption in
    a scam he replied ‘I am A Lay Man I Merely Signed On Documents
    Produced By Competent Railway Board’ – Newly HRD Minister shall be
    signing on dotted Lines.
    A Qualified Person is likely to be more receptive to new IDEAS and
    realize and correct mistakes compared to a person with no
    qualification.
    Biggest tragedy of India is Gross Incompetence and failure of IITs and
    IIMs to Create World Class Technologies, Factories and Services.
    They file Bogus Patents write BOGUS Papers. Worse they don’t want
    PATENTS for Indians don’t want Faster Grant of Patents and Utility
    Patents.
    But IITians and non IITians Perform under professionals of
    Multinationals because they have Basic Engineering Training. Syllabus
    of IITians and non IITians is identical.
    IITians FAIL in India because of UPA or Manmohan Singh or Kapil Sibal
    but because – as I reported earlier also, a brilliant IIT+IIM was paid
    Rs.28,000 PM Salary working in Regulatory Department and much younger
    Nagpur Engineer with Nagpuri MBA was earning Rs.2,00,000 PM working in
    sales department.
    Indians have WEIRD Value system and we are all victim of it. In USA a
    Plumber was earning $25 per hour and a multipurpose clerk in a bank $4
    per hour in 1986.
    This is the real problem which Indians had not been able to diagnose.
    Rent Seeking AICTE, NCTE, MCI
    When even AMITY UNIVERSITY one of the biggest file BOGUS patents or
    research papers there is little AICTE, NCTE, MCI can do than let them
    go on and take some cut in it.
    And to prevent Corruption in AICTE, NCTE, MCI we need Even More
    Qualified HRD Minister than heads of these regulators.
    People who BRIBE are the Real Culprits worldwide except India.
    So long India doesn’t punish BRIBE GIVERS corruption will never go
    away from Indian System.
    Ravinder Singh, National General Secretary.
    Sabka Bharat Mission 2019
    Y-77, Hauz Khas, New Delhi -110016
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    WEC India members Energy News-29th May 2014w

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    WEC India Energy News
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     Today at 10:17 AM

    WEC India Energy Portal 

    One Stop Energy Resource Center

    Energy Journal April 2014 Released 
    With Focus on ‘Energy Access’ this edition shares some sustainable rural energy access projects and WEC India own engagement in this priority domain.  We share glimpses of some of the recent discussions under the ‘WEC India Dialogue Series’. We bring highlights of 22nd World Energy Congress held in Daegu as well.
    1. India and China need to take steps on climate change: US
      The US has said that it is willing to take steps to reduce its emissions but also wants countries like India and China to take responsibility to address the challenge of climate change.
    2. CoalMin to Modi: Focus to be on rail links, green nods
      The ministry has also noted the controversial proposal of opening up the coal sector and restructuring of CIL
    3. Delhi power: State lenders approve Rs 1k-cr loan to Reliance Group firms
      PFC, REC approve bridge loan of Rs 500 Cr each, to pay NTPC directly
    4. Create national power distribution firm, de-nationalise coal: Infra expert
      Govt must focus on five key areas — power, railways, land, capital and public-private partnership
    5. India to build 4 new hydropower projects in Bhutan
      Modi met his Bhutanese counterpart Tshering Tobgay and agreed that India would build 4 new hydropower projects with a capacity to generate 2120 MW in Bhutan.
    6. Sasan power project’s 4th unit in MP starts generation
      The power generation at the fourth unit of the Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh has started.
    7. India’s solar sector poised for good growth: Report
      A right framework is required to tap the potential, the report by consulting firm Tata Strategic Management Group said.
    8. Tata Power Solar expands module manufacturing capacity
      Tata Power Solar has increased the solar module manufacturing capacity of its facility by 60 % to 200 MW and plans to ramp it up further.
    9. Coal India chief S. Narsing Rao quits, hopes to play key role in Telangana
      Rao hopes to take up a new role as principal secretary in the Telangana chief minister’s office from 2 June
    10. Uniform Priority allocation norms to be worked out across natural gas source
      The allocation criteria for distribution of natural gas currently runs in descending order in priority in sectors like fertiliser, LPG, power
    11. Green Tribunal cancels environment clearance to Aranmula airport
      The tribunal has also ordered KGS Group, the promoters of the project, to stop all the construction activities going on at the project
    12. Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd to take up new works to improve power situation
      More emphasis had been given to 110 KV and 66 KV categories power lines as these take electricity to consumers at every nook and corner of the state.
    13. TN to lift power supply restrictions
      The move will be effective June 1
    14. Petroleum ministry to divert more natural gas from non-core sectors
      Another cut in natural gas supply from non-core industries such as refineries, non-urea fertilizer plants and iron and steel units is in the offing, with a view to diverting the resource to the core sector
    15. Experts laud integrated coal, power renewables ministry
      Feel petroleum should also have been brought under the ambit of the super-ministry
    16. WTO sets up panel to examine US-India solar power dispute
      The US had complained against India’s domestic content requirements under National Solar Mission (NSM) solar power programme
    For more information Contact – WEC India Secretariat, C/o NTPC Limited, 7th Floor, Core-6, SCOPE Complex, New Delhi-110 003, India 
    Email: info@wecindia.in, Phone: 011-2436 3719, Fax: 011-2436 9530, Website: http://www.wecindia.in

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    Election Commission Responsible for Munnabhais in Politics

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    Ravinder Singh
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     Today at 2:19 AM
    Election Commission Responsible for Munnabhais in Politics
    May29, 2014
    I am glad that Prime Minister has advised his ministers against
    engaging their own kins as personal staff would like him to Install
    Best Talent to head each Complex Ministry in coming days and engage
    Best Talent for PMO through open and transparent process.
    For all the problems India has Munnabhais are directly responsible.
    It is absolutely stunning how majority of the MPs from all sections of
    parties were defending Poorly Qualified or Members of Parliament with
    Criminal Background.
    Today a post graduate qualification is required to teach 30 High
    School students. How is that a High School Pass would head Entire
    Education Department (HRD) of India including Institutions of Higher
    Studies? – all Schools and Colleges, Professional Institutions etc.
    She is not even qualified to teach even primary school children.
    We in India are required submit copies of Certificates of Educational
    Qualifications even to get a passport and police verification is
    carried out – recruitment of even Class IV too require police
    verifications, how is that MP are not required to submit their
    Certificates of Educational Qualifications and List Criminal or Civil
    Cases decided or pending.
    It is perfectly normal for highly qualified scientists unable to make
    money or not running factory efficiently or professors unable to teach
    their nursery school children. But it is Scandalous to appoint an
    unqualified to Head Some IT or Manufacturing Company.
    But in India situation is altogether different Scientists file BOGUS
    patents and research papers, companies adopt corrupt practices or sell
    substandard products. Munnabhais can’t be able to restrict them.
    Pitroda and Brahamchari filed BOGUS patents and ruled Science and
    Innovation in India that led to absolute Collapse of R&D in India.
    Suresh Prabhu and Saffuddin Soz have stalled multipurpose dam building
    in India and now Uma Bharti is engaged in water department.
    It is a long list – every department failed because either it had
    unqualified Leader or Mis-qualified Leaders. For example a person with
    history background would oversee Highly Technical Telecom or S&T or
    Atomic Energy departments.
    But a person with no relevant qualification is absolute unfit for any
    job which requires specialized qualifications.
    Indians are tolerant to poor quality of services, cheating and frauds
    and don’t respect qualification and honesty.
    Election Commission Responsible for Munnabhais in Politics
    It was shocking Media reported how many prominent persons had Voter I
    Cards but their names were not in the Voters List.
    Munnabhais in Election Commission can’t ensure even this basic right –
    A simple procedure is required every time there are Additions or
    Deletions a separate list of such additions and deletions be made and
    mailed to all residents who are in the list.
    Supreme Court in Civil Appeal No. 7178 of 2001 has Empowered Election
    Commission to frame rules and procedures to make available full
    background of the Candidates.
    [However, the Court considered - whether or not an elector, a citizen
    of the country has a fundamental right to receive the information
    regarding the criminal activities of a candidate to the Lok Sabha or
    Legislative Assembly for making an estimate for himself - as to
    whether the person who is contesting the election has a background
    making him worthy of his vote, by peeping into the past of the
    candidate. After considering the relevant submissions and the reports
    as well as the say of Election Commission, the High Court held that
    for making a right choice, it is essential that the past of the
    candidate should not be kept in the dark as it is not in the interest
    of the democracy and well being of the country. The Court directed the
    Election Commission to secure to voters the following information
    pertaining to each of the candidates contesting election to the
    Parliament and to the State Legislature and the parties they
    represent:-]
    It is Scandalous that –
    1. Election Commission merely requires Candidates to submit School
    name and qualification when Copies of the Certificates were required,
    and list of all Criminal Cases with Case numbers were required.
    2.  In SC judgment ‘desired that Voters evaluate the Worthiness of the
    Candidates’ before making the Choice of Candidate he shall vote.
        Clearly little or information is accessible in time for Voters to
    make Intelligent Decisions. At least six months to one year should be
    the minimum period for candidates to register and comply with
    procedures.
    3. It was Scandalous Election Commission didn’t firstly insist on
    standard format for submitting Election Manifestos which reflects the
    policies and programs of the parties.
        Here Voters are unable to make an assessment of Worthiness of
    Political Parties which are represented by Groups of Candidates
    collectively.
    4.  Along with personal details ‘Bio-data’ should also be submitted by
    Candidates.
    Ravinder Singh, National General Secretary.
    Sabka Bharat Mission 2019
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